This thing is loud as frick but I don't know if I can fix it.
All I can see is this copper pipe seems crimped but is it meant to be?
If I open it up will it help?
Is there something else I can do.
Thanks In advance.
This thing is loud as frick but I don't know if I can fix it.
All I can see is this copper pipe seems crimped but is it meant to be?
If I open it up will it help?
Is there something else I can do.
Thanks In advance.
Btw the noise is from the pump not the compressor it's self the compressor makes some sound but it's not annoying.
My only guess is the motor is over worked due to back pressure.
>Btw the noise is from the pump not the compressor it's self
what pump? all I see is the compressor. do you even know what you are looking at?
I assume the pump is the box on the side an it is forcing the the refrigerant through the big bulge in the middle.
I should have said motor I guess.
hell no. box on the side is the electrical connectors, the steel bowling ball contains the compressor and motor.
pipe is supposed the crimped, thats where they charged it with refrigerant from the factory. everything looks good on your picture i suggest you just buy a new fridge some things are not worth fixing.
the compressor IS the pump you fricking moron. goddamn.
HEY! You're not being nice anon, be nice, do better
ohh dear
>the noise is from the pump not the compressor
the compressor IS a pump you dipshit.
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
It cycles off but not for long.
It's on the upper side of volumes for mini fridges so I think it is also cycling to long to often.
That being said yes... But I didn't look at if it gave a temporary fix.
I'll try it, how long should I unplug it?
Unplug it for 30 seconds and then plug it back in
Ok will do.
I'll unplug it while it is cycling.
Done
Did you plug it back in after 30 seconds?
Yep.
It jumped right back on the cycle.
So I assume a temp detector is keeping it rolling.
some screws are loose I bet, try to tight them.
Brah that's about to explode do not put your head there again!!
>All I can see is this copper pipe seems crimped but is it meant to be?
No
>If I open it up will it help?
Yes
Maybe pack some rockwool around the compressor, I mean pump. Good luck, moron.
>>All I can see is this copper pipe seems crimped but is it meant to be?
>No
its supposed to be crimped you fricking moron thats where it was filled from the factory. shutup you fricking moron you know nothing
Tell me more.
>Tell me more.
you are a stupid douchebagel
>Compressor noises after a cold spell
Maybe some liquid got sucked into the compressor. Time to bust out the micrometers and vertical mill.
Put down your meth pipe and take your meds. Then the compressor pump will stop telling you it wants to be fixed.
>All I can see is this copper pipe seems crimped but is it meant to be?
how to say "you have no business even looking at this" without saying it.
another idiot that thinks you can diagnose a noise by looking at it.
Listen, no one seems to love you enough to have ever told you this before.
You are a lot fricking stupider than you think you are. You do not have the intelligence to even attempt to understand how basic machines function.
Leave the fridge alone and relegate yourself to a life of being below mediocre.
Cool do you know what the problem is or are you just going to talk down to some one who doesn't how this thing works?
It's an honest question my guy. I got an appliance. It's fricking loud. Do you know why and can it be fixed?
Sorry I tried to understand it, I get it I got the fricking terms wrong.
The sound is an electric motor humming.
I though a pump and compressor were separated parts of a compressor assembly. You have chastised me, now please help if you will.
It's loud because it's a low quality chinese compressor that's become damaged in a way that you cannot fix. All of the moving parts in a fridge are inside that hermetically sealed black can. The only way to access the parts inside is to cut it open with an angle grinder and once you do that you'll expose the oil bath and motor inside to metal debris that will guarantee that it's ruined without a total tear down and rebuild. A person with enough time money and skill could theoretically fix the internals, weld the can back together, solder the refrigerant lines back on, evacuate the lines of any air and refill the system with refrigerant, but that person is not you.
The only thing you can do is stop the vibrations from getting to the body of the fridge and out into the air to make it quieter. You can add more padding to the rubber mounting bushings for the compressor and stuff foam or fiberglass insulation into the box around the compressor to stop the noise, but it will probably cause the compressor to overheat and become more damaged.
Regardless, if it was quiet before and it suddenly got louder then it's not going to last much longer.
This, even MacGyver wouldn't try to fix a broken refrigerator compressor, he'd just slap an air conditioner to it somehow.
>...he'd just duct tape an air conditioner to it before flying it across the ocean to get home while the villains' base blows up in a massive fireball caused by 2cc of horse sperm and vodka.
That seems more like a standard MacGuyver episode.
Don't give SNL ideas.
here's the simple facts about a refrigerator.
if it makes noise, and it's not a fan (which would be inside the fridge).
then there is almost nothing (You) can do to stop it.
Thanks.
PrepHole has some of the most ornery people in PrepHole. Is this how you keep the quality high?
it is staggering the amount of dumb that comes to this board.
90% is do it for me, think for me, design it for me, cost it for me, or this is broken will doing something dumb fix it?
Fridges cost next to nothing. Get a new one.
Still running 2 fridges from 1977 with R22, worth it to repair the door seals and paint em. Oh and a chest freezer from 1958
>that pic related
he wouldnt have time to grow gay flowers if he spent his time fixing old fridges.
>R22
God, I wish I could buy that shit in the EU
why?
old freon is shit compared to co2 or propane, absolutely no need for it to exist today.
>compared to co2
CO2 is a fricking shitty refrigerant from a cost-benefit standpoint of how overengineered you have to design the system for it to do anything useful. Greenies and Weenies just like it because it's "like not a manufactured refrigerant bro like save the planet man". Do some god damn research to know what you say before you say it. R-290 aka ultra-clean propane is an excellent refrigerant. Problem is the EPA says Americans are way too fricking stupid to be trusted with such a flammable refrigerant in the household.
>do some research
been installing commercial co2 refrigration since 2003 i know what im talking about, the initial installation cost isnt that much worse any longer, none do it for greta (yet they can always say so and get good g
boy points) but the electricity savings are through the roof.
appliances are purely r290/r600 now.
i started with 7 different refrigerants in my van, now i only carry a 15kg bottle of co2 and two 1kg canisters on 290/600.
You measure in units of gay so you aren't familiar with how uncommon and expensive CO2 shit still is here and the EPAs ban on propane as refrigerant except they did recently allow it to be used in refrigerators again.
>t. British Thermal Units and Tons of Refrigeration
Never got why you are so keen on banning things you dont understand and generally being reluctant to new tech?
Compressors, high pressure pipes and two walves are the only thing different (go subcritical and you dont even need that but its not worth it) liquid and suction use regular pipes, controllers are the same, cabinets and evaporators much the same they just give them a higher pressure rating. Everything is 1/4 the size (imagine the savings in cooper pipe) and total power consumption is down 50-60%.
our customers demand co2 today and you be hard pressed to even find new r134 plugin coolers.
Fricking butthole you're killing the planet.
If it's still working he's not.
Pic related is perfect
You are just like DMX, a crack head
>average cost to run a fridge from the 70s is ~$264 a year
>average cost to run a modern fridge ~$36 a year
>lord knows how much a non defrosting chest freezer from 1958 costs to run
In 4 years, the energy savings alone would have paid for a new fridge. And you have two of them.
Its the definition of "its expensive to be poor"
You cant scrounge up $750 at once for a new fridge, so youll just sieve your paycheck by death of 1000 cuts.
Not that much you can do affordably. As long as the evap coil gets cold then the compressor and refrigerant are probably good, not much else in the minis, no cond or evap fans at all usually.
get a dBA app on your phone, check the level against the technical data sheet
is it still cooling? chances are your compressors on the verge of failing, chuck a clamp meter on your active and check out your power draw, if its more than 8A, its on its way to seizure. A new compressor costs the same as a new fridge, might as well get a new one, unless you're in the 3rd world which you seem to be because that's a 110V 60Hz compressor lmao