re: #158 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Who needs a working fridge during a pandemic? Who? Hahahahaha…ha…ha…

I do not recommend Samsung French-door style fridges unless they’ve made a design change that reduces the chances of ice build-up that blocks the fan and lets your fridge get nice and warm! But slowly! Over months! So you don’t notice until the milk goes bad repeatedly!

Anyway, if you do happen to have one of these fridges and need advice on how to work your way through the defrosting process and (hopefully) prevent it from happening again, well I’ve got plenty of resources to share now.

(Fridge has gotten below 40 degrees today for what is probably the first time in months. And most of what was lost was due to get cleaned out anyway. Saved the freezer contents. Fuck this week.)

Last month I had to replace the defrost thermostat on my Roper. It was doing the repeated frost buildup. (There are vids on YT.) The part costs $11.00, took an hour, if you can find where it goes. That is the most common failure, followed by the defrost timer. Worked my way through school on a GE reefer assembly line.