On May 20, 2004, at 12:49 PM, don spence wrote:
> OK It's almost Friday so her goes....
> How many of you can rise to the challenge and defend their Dometics??
> Can you make Ice cubes in your Westy Fridge??????

Never tried on 12V.  On 110VAC, it's a snap.  On propane, it I start
with cold water in the trays at the start of a trip, I'll have solid
cubes when I get to my favourite campsite.  It's about a 6 hour trip,
usually hot (25 C+), and the last two hours of the drive on rough
logging roads.  Given the weird shape of the cubes when I get to the
site, it indicates to me that the water was not fully frozen when I
left the pavement, suggesting the partially frozen water started
getting knocked around pretty hard at about hour four, and froze hard
somewhere along the logging roads.

Of course, at the moment I have no working propane since I smeared the
flimsy tank skid plate nearly off (and damaged the propane plumbing at
the same time) exploring decommissioned logging roads during the last
camp of last season.  Got to get on to fixing that, but gotta finish
replacing the transmission I crippled on the same trip first...

T.

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