Damn ice trees. My brother bought a high dollar dishwasher specifically advertised to be the quietest -it was, for about 6 months. Thereafter it was just as noisy as a cheap one and he said it never really cleaned the dishes well either. Just goes to show something or other. He left it behind when he moved houses and got the plain jane contractor style.
Damn ice trees. My brother bought a high dollar dishwasher specifically advertised to be the quietest -it was, for about 6 months. Thereafter it was just as noisy as a cheap one and he said it never really cleaned the dishes well either. Just goes to show something or other. He left it behind when he moved houses and got the plain jane contractor style.
Yo Miro...IF you wanted that dumb thing to quit clangin and were willing to let it sit not running for two days here's your fix... Pull the fridge out so you can get to the compressor ( unplugged) use needle nose pliers and a knife to extract the bad rubber bushing... get some shims and position the compressor so that steel rod that is in the middle of the bushing is in the center of hole that holds the bushing ...fashion a 1" piece of cardboard in a round circle and slice a line from the center of that circle out then slide it over the metal pin that held the bushing (below the hole that held the outer ring of the bushing) now get a tube of silicone caulk and squirt a couple hershey kisses size drops down from the trop side of bushing area...The cardboard ring will suspend the silicone until it hardens 24-48 hours....You now have a bushing again..................Or you could probably just buy a matching bushing at the local appliance store and squeeze it in...surprised the repair guy didn't offer to do that...You shouldn't have to pull the compressor to slip a rubber bushing on I would not think anyway silicone is bad ass stuff I use it for all kinds of vibration hold in pace stuff...
the guy who installed our new fridge said we'd be lucky if it lasted 5 years. He wasn't an employee of samsdung so he gave no fucks. "you're basically renting appliances these days."
fortunately he wasn't completely correct but I do seriously doubt if any new modern appliance will be lasting 30-40 years like some of the old stuff. You can't really service stuff anymore, it's either replace the whole circuit board or module and often it's cheaper to scrap the appliance and buy a new one.
You missed what I was saying...it's INSIDE the sealed compressor housing...not outside. If it was outside, I would have fixed it pronto.
I would have to replace the whole compressor...at more cost than the fucking fridge.
And THAT ^ is one of the root causes as to why the planet is in so much trouble. I have tried to get our Green party interested but to little avail.
We need to be making things that can be serviced and last decades not years. This is unfortunately seen as a 'commie plot', the economic 'model' is "Productivity,productivity, productivity', constantly churning out a tide of shiny new stuff and convincing the public to dispose and buy.
The politicians say "we need production for jobs". What effing jobs? Those that still have a job in factories are on near starvation wages, will never afford a house and rent is crippling. Mostly however, people are losing jobs to robots so the production rolls on unabated but only a tiny few benefit and "we" steadily drown is a sea of plastic and cook due to C02 production.
It won't solve the jobs situation completely but repair centres would help IF the stuff was made to be repaired and spares made available and THAT will only happen through legislation.
"Competition" ? That has come to mean hundreds of firms making essentially the same thing but ever cheaper and crappier and with no long term backup.
Dave.
For example, over here any silly sod can set hisself up as a motor mechanic or electronics tech. I understand you need paper qualifications to do that in "The Land of the Free"?
Dave.
"I understand you need paper qualifications to do that in "The Land of the Free"?
Dave.
why not just turn the fridge controls to its warmest levels while you're recording, that food won't go bad. i,m sure you turn the ac/heat off when you're recording , right?
The other 'solution' I recently discovered is a plugin made by Klevgrand called Brushfri that analyzes and cancels out background noise. It actually works pretty well.
Well, fridges don't work like that. They use a thermostat and the compressor kicks in periodically to bring the temperature down to the set level and when it cuts in it usually makes a fair amount of noise. I am fortunate that my fridge is 15 feet and two doors away from where I would be recording and is in fact very quiet anyway. That quietness might be due to the fact that it is at least 40 years old! We bought it 'on the drip' from the then Electricity Board. For sure it is patched up with Aluminium gaffer tape and is certainly not as efficient as a modern one but then had I replaced it 20 years ago I might be 3 or 4 fridges down the line now? Making a fridge (and scrapping the old one) makes a LOT of C02!A constant lower hum does sound more soothing than those intermittent cycles. You might want to check out appliance stores or websites for fridges with quieter operation.