Geronimo Jim
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Fish ain't nothing!! Now Shrimp will twist yer socks off
Had a rental property that tenant left shrimp in freezer when they
moved out and electric turned out. Had to trash the refrigerator......
almost the kitchen!
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"Garage Ready" Freezers
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Had a rental property that tenant left shrimp in freezer when they
moved out and electric turned out. Had to trash the refrigerator......
almost the kitchen!
In the Fall of 1957 I got a bull elk in SW Montana. Butchered it and had
Sears deliver a freezer. Put it in a shed out back. Went out a week or
so later and all the meat had spoiled. Sears replaced the freezer and paid
us the going rate per pound for beef. It gets pretty cold in the Montana
Winter and kinda hot in the Summer too, but the freezer worked fine for
a lot of years.
Sears deliver a freezer. Put it in a shed out back. Went out a week or
so later and all the meat had spoiled. Sears replaced the freezer and paid
us the going rate per pound for beef. It gets pretty cold in the Montana
Winter and kinda hot in the Summer too, but the freezer worked fine for
a lot of years.
I bought a small (7cu ft) chest freezer in October for use in a unheated storage building. So far, it has worked fine, even with some freezing temps outside. I'll find out soon enough if the "garage ready" version was just a fancy way to charge more. Although it's a Hotpoint, it's probably made in china, which means it has failure built into it's design.
Freezer smells
Back in the 80's, the AC company I worked for got a side gig killing pigeons.
They bought the largest chest freezer they could get, set it up in our unconditioned warehouse. Every morning, the Pest Bird employee would go to where they had installed the perches with poison that the birds absorbed through their feet at pigeon roosting areas and would pick up the dead pigeons, bring them back and put them in the freezer. In mid summer in Houston, some of those birds were just a bit on the gamey side.
People tended to stay away from the freezer area until after a couple of hours after it was opened.
Then late July, they found out, it was not meant to work in 100+ degree heat.
Took forever to air out the warehouse after it failed.
Weird thing about disposing of the pigeon carcasses-you could not take them to a standard dump-had to be disposed of at a toxic waste incinerator.
I guess they did not want the seagulls that hang around the dump to die after eating poisoned pigeon.
Back in the 80's, the AC company I worked for got a side gig killing pigeons.
They bought the largest chest freezer they could get, set it up in our unconditioned warehouse. Every morning, the Pest Bird employee would go to where they had installed the perches with poison that the birds absorbed through their feet at pigeon roosting areas and would pick up the dead pigeons, bring them back and put them in the freezer. In mid summer in Houston, some of those birds were just a bit on the gamey side.
People tended to stay away from the freezer area until after a couple of hours after it was opened.
Then late July, they found out, it was not meant to work in 100+ degree heat.
Took forever to air out the warehouse after it failed.
Weird thing about disposing of the pigeon carcasses-you could not take them to a standard dump-had to be disposed of at a toxic waste incinerator.
I guess they did not want the seagulls that hang around the dump to die after eating poisoned pigeon.
Fish ain't nothing!! Now Shrimp will twist yer socks off
I guess that means buy fresh shrimp when possible.
WuzzFuzz
Jeez. Now I got another thing to worry about...
Mine in the barn stops working in colder temps. I was told to get one that was rated for a un-climate controlled space. I assume that means garage ready. I also didn't know that you shouldn't put window units through the wall, there are units that look like a regular window unit but vent differently
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StrawHat
SWCA Member
We kept an old Sears chest freezer in an unheated garage for maybe 20 years. Each winter I would rig a drop light and place it by the motor/compressor. Just the heat from the light bulb was enough to keep things running well.
Kevin
Kevin
This was a timely thread. My wife bought a new fridge when we bought this house last fall. Old one's in the garage. Temp dropped into the 20s last night, then went to the mid 30s today.
So I checked, and sho 'nuff garage refrigerator (2012) freezer's not working. Crammed all the garage fridge frozen stuff into the main kitchen fridge freezer unit, and started lookin' for the fix.
The usual fix, as mentioned above, is to buy a heating element and install it. This guy has a different approach, essentially disabling the switch that turns on the light in the refrigerator so that the light is always on, providing enough heat to keep the freezer unit going.
How to Make a Freezer Work in an Unheated Garage Refrigerator - YouTube
Not sure which approach I'll use, but I do need a fix.
Later: I think I am gonna go with adding a heating element. Readily available on Amazon. They had a bunch that looked like they'd work for me, ranging from nearly $30 to $10. I ordered a $12 one.
Installed it today. Pretty straightforward. Apparently won't work/fit on a model that has an LED panel control in the door frame. Is for fridges with analog control dials.
So I checked, and sho 'nuff garage refrigerator (2012) freezer's not working. Crammed all the garage fridge frozen stuff into the main kitchen fridge freezer unit, and started lookin' for the fix.
The usual fix, as mentioned above, is to buy a heating element and install it. This guy has a different approach, essentially disabling the switch that turns on the light in the refrigerator so that the light is always on, providing enough heat to keep the freezer unit going.
How to Make a Freezer Work in an Unheated Garage Refrigerator - YouTube
Not sure which approach I'll use, but I do need a fix.
Later: I think I am gonna go with adding a heating element. Readily available on Amazon. They had a bunch that looked like they'd work for me, ranging from nearly $30 to $10. I ordered a $12 one.
Installed it today. Pretty straightforward. Apparently won't work/fit on a model that has an LED panel control in the door frame. Is for fridges with analog control dials.
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Got my beer 'fridge in my garage. It's on the far right, next to my table saw.
Don't use it so much in the winter but when the warm weather comes, it's great for keeping my beer cold.
Don't use it so much in the winter but when the warm weather comes, it's great for keeping my beer cold.
