Dont panic yet,  maby it isnt so bad. If I understand the workings of these things correctly the fact that yours is working AT ALL indicates that nothing in the fridge itself is really broken. Mine had a similar performance to yours before I tore it apart last year. There was nothing really wrong in there that a good cleaning didnt fix. I found the source of the troubles was a couple of dead roaches in the combustion chamber. Lord knows how they got in there as the roaches were larger than any opening to the chamber. That cleaning raised the performance from lousy to tollerable. Reading the past reports from others here led me to believe that this was pretty much it but some of the fixes I am reading here give me high hopes.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Horace K. Sawyer 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 10:56 PM
  Subject: Re: My Westy fridge -- may be the worst!

  Bummer of bummers -- my fridge is running on electric 110 and is only chillin to, get this:  60

  Absolutely sucks!  Probably the worst on the list, I didn't even know it!

  What's even more of a bummer is that I am completely freaking about trying to take that baby out and commence "fixing."    I have been keeping up with all the list traffic about Dometics, but now I know I have a problem and I got myself psyched out already and that ain't good.

  Maybe I will get my act together this weekend . . . 

  Somehow I just know this is going to be rough

  <arghh>

  HK

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