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Author Topic: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....  (Read 3678 times)

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The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« on: 26 June 2016, 17:47:15 »

And I'm glad!!!

Took my mum shopping for a new fridge this afternoon.
Two rows of fridges on display.....but only two that were 55cm wide and didn't have an ice box in them!  :(
Anyway chucked new fridge in the back of estate.....and away we went. :)

Unpacked the new fridge on her driveway.....now to take the old one out...

Old fridge must have weighed nearly twice as heavy....I picked it up only to put it down a damn sight quicker than I picked it up.....
So I dragged it outside and just managed to get in the back of my estate.

New....easy peasy.....picked it up easily and placed carefully down  :y

So my mum now has a working fridge again and on the upside, when I took her old one to the tip, the guy directing two long lanes of queues, let me queue jump to the front and another guy at the tip came over to help me unload it  :y
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #1 on: 26 June 2016, 17:56:40 »

I was under the impression that really old fridges had to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way because of the CFC's they contain. A lot of tips wouldn't take them a while ago.
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #2 on: 26 June 2016, 18:02:21 »

I was under the impression that really old fridges had to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way because of the CFC's they contain. A lot of tips wouldn't take them a while ago.

Probably why it didn't work anymore.....leaked away maybe....

But thats why I got queue jumped, you are not allowed just to chuck in a skip for landfill......they go in a designated area that I guess an approved contractor comes to take away and sucks out the CFC's into a bottle before crushing em  :y
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #3 on: 26 June 2016, 18:04:55 »

Nowadays it's global warming. But do you remember when fridges were destroying the ozone layer and letting the sun melt the North Pole?  ;D
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #4 on: 26 June 2016, 18:15:46 »

I used to work for a transport firm that had a contract with Curries to collect all the old fridges they swapped on delivery.  We'd take them back to the yard and a Romanian firm came a collected them for repair and resell back in Romania.  :)
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #5 on: 26 June 2016, 19:43:32 »

You know that you are suppose to leave a new fridge in the upside position for 24 hours before you switch it on, if its be moved horizontally.
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #6 on: 26 June 2016, 20:07:00 »

is the make of the new fridge 'Bush'?  if so you'll be doing all this again in 12 months plus 1 day :(.
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« Reply #7 on: 26 June 2016, 20:08:17 »

is the make of the new fridge 'Bush'?  if so you'll be doing all this again in 12 months plus 1 day :(.

Someone said that about our double oven 5 1/2 years ago......... :-\
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #8 on: 26 June 2016, 20:09:59 »

i don't think even 'Bush' could f*** up an oven what is there to go wrong?
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« Reply #9 on: 26 June 2016, 20:13:03 »

i don't think even 'Bush' could f*** up an oven what is there to go wrong?

Could say the same for a fridge. Ovens heat hings up , fridges cool em down.
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #10 on: 26 June 2016, 20:21:36 »

no moving parts in an oven...

except if it has a fan or clockwork timer.

'Bush' could f*** those up I suppose :(

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« Reply #11 on: 26 June 2016, 20:27:55 »

My mother has a Bakelite bush radio which still works. I believe her favourite station is Hilversum.  ;D
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #12 on: 26 June 2016, 20:52:13 »

Stemo, your mother's radio was made in England, properly, and made to last.....

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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #13 on: 26 June 2016, 20:55:57 »

I was under the impression that really old fridges had to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way because of the CFC's they contain. A lot of tips wouldn't take them a while ago.

Probably why it didn't work anymore.....leaked away maybe....

But thats why I got queue jumped, you are not allowed just to chuck in a skip for landfill......they go in a designated area that I guess an approved contractor comes to take away and sucks out the CFC's into a bottle before crushing em  :y
While CFCs were still in general use the foam insulation was filled with CFC gas as a blowing agent. Vacuuming the gas out of the pipes is the simple part. Recovering the gas from the foam is a different task altogether. I don't think it is as simple as just crushing the thing :-\ https://www.gov.uk/guidance/recover-f-gas-when-disposing-of-equipment-and-insulating-foam
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Re: The dont make new fridges like they used to.....
« Reply #14 on: 27 June 2016, 06:08:43 »

You know that you are suppose to leave a new fridge in the upside position for 24 hours before you switch it on, if its be moved horizontally.

True if the fridge has been used, new fridges/freezers are ok to turn on straight away iirc
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