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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 20:01 
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Thanks for all the help, folks.

I have successfully ordered a new freezer. I got the Beko one. Specifically one with an alarm that lets you know if you’ve left the door ajar which has sort of cushioned my fears a little.

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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Cool.

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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Cool.

Hopefully soon

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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 10:05 
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The alarm is just a clip of Larry Grayson, right?


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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 10:49 
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My mother has an *ancient* Electrolux upright full-height freezer sat in her utility room. Must be 30 years old. It still works pretty well, except for the fact that if the door slams ( and it's a pretty heavy door ) the door seal sort-of squeezes the air out, and it forms a vacuum inside. If that happens, it's essentially impossible to open. I can't brute force it open, and my mum certainly can't. You have to force a fingernail between the body and the seal at one of the corners and listen to it hiss as the pressure equalises.


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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Squirt wrote:
My mother has an *ancient* Electrolux upright full-height freezer sat in her utility room.


Hmm yes, one of those big heavy ones just like that one in the Indiana Jones film (that everyone complained about, right)


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Must be 30 years old.


Wait, what :'( :'( :'(

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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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The alarm is just a clip of Larry Grayson, right?


Our fridge has a secondary alarm (triggered some time after the initial beeps and bongs) that does indeed sound a bit like that clip, but louder and angrier and with a few choice expletives chucked in there >:(

It also has a button that the kids love pressing, because it makes a beep-beep noise, but holy shit is it annoying when they keep switching it from cubed-ice dispensing to crushed-ice dispensing. Yes I know it's very much a first-world problem but it really makes me rage. I feel like I've been conditioned to respond to those particular tones with a furious rage. Even just imagining it now has me on edge.

In fact, this entire post seems to indicate a lot of rage.

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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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If this had happened months ago you could have had the one we decided to get rid of during the kitchen redux. Unfortunately it's been sat outside for said months. It is not faring all that well.

By coincidence, a day or two after you posted the companion fridge we decided to keep did a lovely fizz-crackle with flickering interior light. The magic smoke stayed in and it keeps things (beer) cold for now but its days are clearly numbered.

Can't complain given the previous owners left it for us when we bought the house almost 7.5 years ago.


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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Sir Taxalot wrote:
Squirt wrote:
Must be 30 years old.


Wait, what :'( :'( :'(


Yeah, but that's like 210 in Freezer Years


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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Kern wrote:
The alarm is just a clip of Larry Grayson, right?


:DD

I bet they could sell a shedload of those.


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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Giphy "larry grayson shut that door":



Not what I was hoping for.

Blimey, I didn't know this was a thing.


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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Well, that’s going in the wants list.

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 Post subject: Re: How does my freezer work?
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Squirt wrote:
You have to force a fingernail between the body and the seal at one of the corners and listen to it hiss as the pressure equalises.

Guitar picks are good for this.

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