[AT] OT, one of those days, a Monday

Tue May 19 13:44:48 PDT 2020

Cecil,

If the freezer compartment appears to be working, but the refrigerator compartment is not, that’s usually a sign that the evaporator fan has issues. It sounds like you have the fan running, but maybe there’s something that’s not letting it cool down the refrigerator compartment enough, like some insulation blocking air flow, or a dust build. 

Those 35 year old refrigerators aren’t very good on energy conservation, so a new one may actually save you money in the long run. Unfortunately it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have ice and water dispensers, and aren’t wi-fi connected. But maybe you’ll appreciate running a water line, changing out filters, and having it send you reminders that you’re low on eggs, milk and butter, and that the lettuce is wilted and needs to be tossed out.

My wife is not looking forward to replacing our refrigerator in the future since she doesn’t want any of those bells and whistles. The last one we purchased took a while to find since we didn’t want water and ice dispensers. It’s a little bigger than what we need, but we didn’t want to pay for all the things we didn’t want.

Carl

----- Original Message -----
From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
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Sent: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:21:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [AT] OT, one of those days, a Monday

Yesterday started out like any other day.  Wife went to get necessities, 
and I was working on cattle chutes to move some of the 60 head too many 
we have here.  While moving the panels around and getting the others 
that needed to be welded, the A/C on the New Holland money pit quit.  
Then I noticed the red battery light on the dash.  That meant the fan 
belt had broke again.  This one had only 3 hours on it.  A new pulley 
was installed at that time. the old one lasted about 14 hours after I 
replaced the water pump.  Serpentine belt, not my favorite..  Then 
Cowboy the wonder dog had to find a skunk and then forgot that he had an 
experience with these stinky things 4 years ago.  This one was only 40 
ft from where i had the New Holland under a shade tree to work on. When 
I investigated the fan belt I found the idler pulley I replaced was 
looser than the old one. Replacement was plastic, the old one was 
steel.  Called Dealership and found that all replacements were plastic.  
Decided to replace tensioner and all idlers.  Got on internet and found 
a listing on Dayco idlers by size.  Found a number then crossed it over 
to Napa number and called my small town NAPA, they had it and the belt, 
the dealership had the tensioner.

Got a big bottle of Dawn and gave Cowboy the wonder dog a bath and then 
sprayed with a mixture of peroxide and some odor stuff for dogs.  He is 
tolerable now.

My wife returned from shopping and then advised me that the refrigerator 
had quit working.    We moved everything that could be moved into a 
freezer and then re-adjusted things into another refrigerator and ice 
chest.   Could not find dry ice locally.   I opened up the evaporator on 
the freezer and found it was iced over.  thawed everything out and the 
fan would not run.   Checked with voltmeter and for some reason power 
would not get to the fan.  Googled everything and checked again. Ice in 
the cols had moved the metal rib on the defroster heater  to short out 
the wires on the end.   It was not either the defroster thermostat or 
the timer.  I took off the lower section in the refrigerator and still 
could not find the timer.  I gave up at midnight and decided to find 
another refrigerator this morning.  7am this morning the fan is running 
and the freezer is cold, but the fridge is only 50deg.  I moved the 
thermostat tube around and am waiting on it to cool down some more.   
Not sure to trust it or not.  It is only 35 years old..........

The New Holland has to have the radiator removed to replace all the belt 
idlers.  I did this last month when I replaced the water pump, but had 
the loader off at the time.  This time the loader is on it.     Loads of 
fun!!!!

Cecil

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