Demise of the chest freezer?

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Could they not make glass big enough?

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 21:24:54 +0100, David wrote:=

It's not just strange, it's not fit for purpose. Anyone with a problem = should just take it straight back to the shop as faulty.

And Beko should be advertising how good theirs are.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Now you say it I think mine never turns off either, probably just designed to be about right when running flat out.

I did run mine on warm once by mistake, the switch was knocked into the wrong position. I was only alerted to it when the food smelt really weird.

[Bill Wright]

Purchase tax didn't apply to commercial equipment. I was trading when VAT started. I was in the VAT bracket so I had to charge 10% more (on mark up) than every other aerial installer. They had VAT at 25% at one point, which almost put me out of business. Who remembers those days? If you bought anything from a camping shop you had to declare it wasn't for a yacht because the VAT rate for yachts was higher. This was done by Wilson to spite Heath.

No not at all. After the light was turned on five seconds would elapse then it would flicker and come on. It was quite bright. When I turned the room light off it would stay on for about 15 secs then go off.

I think it must have happened when we put things in it and it couldn't keep pace. It was old and knackered and we used to get whole lambs.

One each. So if one freezer has a fault the other stays on.

Yes, and if the sensor happens to be where the cold air blows in it goes down to -30.

Fuck knows. I ignore all that stuff. Far as I'm concerned if you cook food thoroughly just before you eat it you kill all the bugs.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

I got chased by the revenue for that. In the end I had to pay a percentage of the vehicle's value which worked out at £26.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Not on a curve.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Set at -18 I get cycling between -15 and -21.

That's why we got Beko. Big sales point.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

No, Peltier is very inefficient.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Peltier car fridges draw 4A at 12V and never switch off, and never get below 10C. They're Ok for beer but not much else. A 12V compressor fridge, twice the size, gets down to 5C and draws 4A but is only on for

20% of the time when ambient is 20C.

I did that. Tipped thirty quid's worth of food into a bin in a layby. It was a work trip and everything else went wrong as well. I dinted the new van on a pillar in Reuters' underground car park for one thing.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

I knew a bloke that did that. He had a relationship with the heiress of a well known food company. He was a funny bugger. He defrauded in a big way a chief constable who didn't report it out of embarrassment. He married a blind woman and bought her a clock that talked the time when you pressed a button, by means of little tape recordings. He used to sell tellys that he'd rigged with time delay fuses then when they broke down he'd take them back to the workshop and leave a £1.50 scrapper in their place, then the customer would never get their telly or their £300 back. He totally conned a major Japanese manufacturer into fitting out his shop and merchandising it on tick.He was quite a nice bloke to have a pint with. Really kind and considerate, and lovely with babies and dogs. After he got nicked for the murder he died in jail.

Bill

[Brian Gaff]

Yes they do, how silly. I myself do not, but I could name several people who live out of the rat run of cities who live by freezing stuff in a freezer in their Garages.

Having said that I guess its not like in the US where thy stick whole carcases in them after a hunting trip!

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

I seem to remember in the old days most got them from Bejam, but they were bought by Iceland and of course the supply of chest freezers may now be dictated by these specialist stores. As in so many things like phones with real keypads, they are slowly going away. I'd not want a second hand chest freezer since they can appear to work but the insulation gets shot and they use power like there is no tomorrow. Brian

[spuorgelgoog]

Which in those days was real money.

Owain

[The Natural Philosopher]

air cooled engine with poor bearings.

60 k miles and its new mains and bigs and probably line boring a warped crankcase.

[FMurtz]

And how do you go with freezing with your peltier

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Dunno what the temperature limits are.

[Jim Wilkinson Knife]

Thieves. They didn't build the van did they?

[Jim Wilkinson Knife]

Maybe I'm living too close to towns now.

[Jim Wilkinson Knife]

You do of course need to avoid motives being spotted.

[Jim Wilkinson Knife]

Yip, mine does that.

Mine is about 5C as it should be, in mid summer in Scotland with the car rather hot in a car park (probably 35C).

I just added a couple of lorry batteries in the back. I could run the fridge for days, along with other stuff.

That's the second time in my entire 43 years I've heard the word "dint". Are you Scottish by any chance? The other time was a note left on my car saying "To the 'driver' of this Sierra, thanks for the dint in my car." I hadn't actually collided with anyone with that car, ever.