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Message started by Bear on May 25th, 2026 at 1:21pm

Title: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on May 25th, 2026 at 1:21pm
Picked up my fridge this morning will post some photos later. Cheers

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on May 29th, 2026 at 6:01pm
Well after the disaster of me attempting to clean fridge my fridge our cleaner came around this afternoon and finished the job. Had to endure another lecture but that was ok.

Put the humidifier and dehumidifier in and giving it a test run over night.


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Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Derek on May 29th, 2026 at 6:54pm
That’s a nice deep looking fridge.

How are you planning to run the cables for your humidifier and dehumidifier to your controller?

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on May 30th, 2026 at 11:10am
Will have a good look after but most likely through the flat section on the side betwwn the two lots a shelve grooves. Not sure if modern fridges run any cooling pipes down the sides these days. I think it is all fan forced circulation.

What year was your fridge built? Cheers

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Derek on May 30th, 2026 at 11:33am
Haven’t a clue what year mine is.

From what I read they often have gas lines in the walls. Many stores of people slicing through them.

What I did was carefully cut a hole in the inside plastic then slowly picked the foam insulation out till I got to the outer metal wall.

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on May 30th, 2026 at 4:12pm
Will be doing similar

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 6th, 2026 at 11:32am
Well. Started to cut the hole in the side of my fridge yesterday easy two holes up to 6mm the a sharp object to probe in the insulation went in a inch and did not feel any thing so cut the hole.

Then dug out the insulation with a flat screw driver. Felt something on the out side wall so took it easy. Sure enough a 3 mm pipe running agains the wall. Drilled two holes near the pipe from the inside and marked the outside where I needed to drill for the centre of the new hole. So a job for this afternoon.

Will need a bit of repairs but will not effect the efficiency of the fridge.


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Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Derek on Jun 6th, 2026 at 11:56am
Well done.  Just goes to show that real care is needed. 

Have seen a few photos on Facebook pages where people have just gone ahead and drilled a large hole and cut through a cooling pipe.


Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 6th, 2026 at 8:36pm
Will try and finish tomorrow.

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 8th, 2026 at 4:36pm
Chest infection again so noth being done for a while. Will try and make a list of things I need. Cheers

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 10th, 2026 at 7:08pm
Had a young electrician installing a new fan inside to day and he gave me a hand to get the fridge in position.I was able to wire the plugs on the leads and position the inkbird instruments.

Will tidy the wiring up and then ready to kick start.

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Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 12th, 2026 at 10:35am
A little bit further along this morning.

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Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Derek on Jun 12th, 2026 at 10:41am
Looking good.

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 12th, 2026 at 4:48pm
Ready to fire up but a bit crook at the moment. Not sure what I have picked up.

Out of interest for you the shelve is made up of two of the curtain rod cross pieces and the long Aldi cake rack. My fridge is about 500 wide inside and the cake rack made a great airflow shelve. The tray leg I can get a hook into and still hang some meat from. Cheers

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Derek on Jun 12th, 2026 at 5:17pm
Not seen that cake rack before.  Have you had it for long.

One issue I have is a lot of dead space above my top rails.  I need to build something up over it.

Title: Re: Roberts Small Goods
Post by Bear on Jun 12th, 2026 at 5:47pm
Had it a few years, bought a couple, Aldi special full and a half rack together, just zip tired to the cross pipes. Looks the same as the one you have your pies on.

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