Customer Reviews

Cheap and Easy! Refrigerator Repair (Cheap and Easy! Appliance Repair Series) (Emley, Douglas. Cheap and Easy!,)

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It is pity to see all the legacy refrigerators going to waste. You can see the appliance store back lots filled with them and garage mechanics selling fixed ones for $150 in the WantAds.

This excellent book with lots of illustrations beats out books from Time-Life, Masters, OEM mfgrs, and others. The author has already been there and done that...he doesn't need a big publisher masthead and lots of high priced editors and photographers.

Refrigerators are really quite simple but there are some trouble-prone areas which includes icemakers. It has good detail diagnostic flow diagrams so you can determine which subsystem or component is bad.

In my case for a 20+ year old Frigidaire with top mount freezer intended to be used in an office, where a new one costs about $600. This fridge cooled great at first, but after about 1-2 weeks would not cool or freeze any more.

With this book, I easily diagnosed that a defrost heater was burned out, p37. With its good illustrations, was able to take apart the freezer section, lift the evap coils, and find the heater. Described it (1" dia x 17" long) over the phone to a appliance parts store. Picked it up for $27, and voila! it is still running after 3 months.

I read this book from the local library and also saw another book by the same author, "Refrigerator Repair Under $40," ISBN 1-884348-00-9 which has about the same content. Highly recommended, would not been able to save this fridge without it.

Lots of great info in here. I have found a winter project, something to learn from. Nice little book, if you want to repair your own stuff.

I am not rating the book. No where to send my complain about sending me the two identical books. I have to use this column.

Why send me two identical books? Hopefully not charge me twice. And I'll send you extra book back. Your web design is not user friendly. Probably too much ads cause the trouble.