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Just finished fixing the 25 years old refrigerator. Milk was bad this morning again (5-21-2013) and i looked and saw half of the radiator in the freezing compartment was frozen and half not. Was sick all they because of drinking bad milk. I was about to faint while driving and almost got into several accidents.

Had to go to see the judge for the traffic ticket. Could not concentrate, could not form phrases.

The defrost cycle was overlapping the functioning cycle due to a short in the defrost timer. Where i've been 3 years ago. Until a few months ago i had a thermometer inside and at times was even freezing liquids in there so i had to raise temperature a bit. But took apart the thermometer once for some reason and i was too lazy to put it back thinking i was safe. I bet this time the devil stuck its tail into it.

I'll put here the pictures i've taken back then, 2010:02:19 @15 PM. Too bad i cannot put the stench too. The foam separator between the freezer and the fridge compartiment was contaminated with deeply rotten food especially pizza sauce through all its volume. It put it in a huge new black garbage bag together with a gallon of chlorine and soaked in clhorine for hours and i took the picture after. Still stinking. Since i couldn't find a replacement part all i could do was coat it with a transparent paint and seal the stench inside. The sheet metal separator that covers the radiator in the back of the freezer was rusted on the back on almost all its surface and it was stinking so bad that after i cleaned it one day with CLR in the balcony it was still stinking. In the end replaced it with one i made out of plexiglas (carbonite). Some other plastic parts were partially melted because one of the defrost switches was out of calibration. The evaporation pan in top of the compressor was full with a brownish stinking unidentified organic matter that i had to remove with a cheasel only to find out that it had a hole in it.

But in the end i made it work, after a month or so. Was still stinking for the first year or so.

When i moved in about 3 years ago i tried and offered the manager of the firm that leased us the apartment to buy a new fridge with my own money but he refused so the only other choice was to try and fix it.