AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING CAMPING AND LIFESTYLE FORUM - Preparation for and Building a Smallgoods Fridge

Reply #10 - Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 11:02am

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Well the fridge has been picked up and he tells me it’s in pretty good nick. Just got to wait until after holidays now.

As ‘Big Kev’ on the Gold Coast used to say many years ago, “I’m excited”. Grin

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Reply #11 - Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 1:44pm

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How good is this. About half an hour ago the dogs started barking so went to the door and there was my son with the fridge on his trailer.

He said he thought he would bring it over because he hadn’t seen me so excited in ages. Grin

Fits into the space nicely.

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Reply #12 - Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 7:18pm

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Been running a few hours now turned on high. Got my fridge thermometer out of the motorhome and put one sensor on the top shelf and one on the bottom.

Currently showing 0 degrees up top and 2 degrees on the bottom.

Have turned it down to 2 and will see what it reads in the morning.

Looks like it’s all good for $0.

Tomorrow will give it a good clean. As you can see in the photo there is a bit of mould on the seal that has to go.

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Reply #13 - Jan 2^nd, 2026 at 10:55pm

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Have ordered the Inkbird Temperature and Humidity Controllers that I need.

Got them direct from Inkbird at their special Christmas Special Prices. Cheesy

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Reply #14 - Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 12:03am

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Hi Derek, Not sure what you clean your door seals with. When I had a servo, I had the local council’s fuel account,so dealt with the health inspector. I remember him saying to use vinegar or Metho to clean door seals. We were beekeeping at the same time & opened up our mobile extracting plant & it was black inside with mould. We used vinegar to clean it & never had another problem.
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Reply #15 - Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 6:47am

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What was thecost of the controllers mate?

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Reply #16 - Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 8:45am

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Bear wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 6:47am:

What was thecost of the controllers mate?

Total was $81.70 delivered for both of them.

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Reply #17 - Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 3:32pm

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Reply #18 - Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 3:39pm

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Bear wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2026 at 3:32pm:

US or AUS $

AUD. Bought from Inkbird Australia - https://au.inkbird.com/

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Reply #19 - Jan 4^th, 2026 at 8:46am

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Thank you I first went to the US site and it converted to about $154, then found the Oz site. Is freight free. Been thinking of this for a while and researched all the beginning of last year but then the srgery started.

Have you settled on a humidifier yet? Was thinking first about the wine fridge but the back fridge is starting to show its age and would be better.

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