[C320-list] Fridge compressor replacement

[Graeme Clark]

Thanks Jack
I’ve not bought it yet but Coldmachines (sold under Waeco brand in UK) aren’t readily available for our size fridge (5.8 cu ft). I’ll ask around a bit more
Graeme

Sent from my phone. Excuse typos! 

> On 15 Jul 2020, at 14:09, Jack Brennan <jackbrennan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Graeme:
> 
> I sounds like you’ve already bought the replacement unit but, just in case, the Adler/Barbour Cold Machine comes with about 12 feet of tubing. I had to coil it in the rear port locker.
> 
> Jack Brennan
> Sonas, 1998 Catalina 320
> Tierra Verde, Fl.
> Dolphin Cruising Club of Tampa Bay
> 
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 
> From: Graeme Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 8:38 AM
> To: C320-List at catalina320.com
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Fridge compressor replacement
> 
> Quick update
> 
> I’ve removed the old unit and the evaporator plate from the cool box along with the tubing
> 
> The way mine was set up, the tubing exited into the aft port locker, routed under the shelf that the compressor sits on and then comes up through a hole in that shelf at the aft end to return back forward to connect to the compressor
> 
> My guess is that this made for easier connections as the big self seal couplings need space around them for a wrench
> 
> Long story short is that from the exit hole in the cool box that takes 10ft of piping. If I could make the connection to the compressor at the forward end that might save 2ft but no way will I do it with the standard 6ft pipe length, especially as some of that will be used within the cool box between the evaporator plate and the exit hole in the wall!
> 
> So either I buy an extension tube or I site the compressor somewhere else
> 
> On the 320 I used to have fractional ownership of, that had already been done and the compressor was near where the battery charger is sited above the small cupboard/stowage box that is accessed to rear of cool box
> 
> Of course there’s potential for heat build up there but I think it would be easy enough to repurpose the engine blower to suck air from that locker (the two are interconnected)
> 
> Difficult choices!
> 
> Graeme
> #366
> 1996 
> 
> Sent from my phone. Excuse typos! 
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