Thanks for pointing that out Richard, I'd forgotten about the great tech ref
on his site,  I've dealt with them, they are just up the road from me a
couple of miles.  The owner was surprised when I complimented him on the
site and thanked him for the effort.
BTW, he doesn't have much use for our little Dometics, primarily because of
lack of parts for them anymore.

On 6/20/07, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> > The Dometic 182 does not use Freon, it is an ammonia based system.  And
> as
> > far as I know it's not rechargeable.
>
> I was going to suggest that RVMobile rebuilds such fridges,
> but now I see on their web site that they do not SHIP anymore.
> Must be some change in shipping rules.  Anyway, there is a
> lot of very good info on Westy-style (amonia-based) fridges
> on their site:
> http://www.rvmobile.com/Tech/Technical.htm
>
> Richard
> Boulder
>