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27-01-2020, 11:12 PM
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Gosh Ben, thank goodness your daughters found the problem!

I am glad you have a nice new one now, and hope you feel much better quickly now.
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28-01-2020, 12:39 AM
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My Westinghouse chest freezer is nearly 40 years old but still going strong (much to my ongoing surprise). I am beginning to think the lid will rust through first before it makes a contribution to the hole in the ozone layer!
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28-01-2020, 05:05 AM
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Ben, I really appreciate your mentioning this and relieved to hear that you are ok. I had never really considered such a thing.

Bruce, I know how you feel about that freezer. My mother has one that was my grandmother's that she bought in the 1960s. I wonder how many generations will pass it down?

That said, I don't think I'd care for those suspicious looking peas stored in the bottom.
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28-01-2020, 08:15 AM
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Not making light of the serious issues raised here but when i saw Beware of Your Fridge heading i had a mental image of fridges out of control rampaging all over the place.....sorry vivid imagination here...I'll shut up now
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28-01-2020, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by summer ->
Not making light of the serious issues raised here but when i saw Beware of Your Fridge heading i had a mental image of fridges out of control rampaging all over the place.....sorry vivid imagination here...I'll shut up now

Yes, the heading did seem like that. Had to chuckle myself.
I was told, but not officially, that up to about twenty years ago the gas used in fridges was dangerous but had been changed to a safer gas later.
Still, better to be safe than sorry.
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Originally Posted by big ben ->
up to about twenty years ago the gas used in fridges was dangerous but had been changed to a safer gas later.
True - damaging to the ozone layer. The gases used as refrigerants were based on chloro-fluoro-carbon (aka CFCs) technology. Today, something safer is used but I don't know what it is.
 
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