Where to find a fridge

[OuZo]

Hey kids,

Was just wondering where people would recommend looking for old/broken fridges? The one we're using for an incubator has screwed seals and may have killed the current clutch of Jacky eggs which is in there seeing as I found it on 38 degrees this morning

We'll try the tip but apparently you have to pay to get stuff from there? Does anyone know where I might be able to get one for free? The other option is to get new seals which will cost about $50 so if we could get a new fridge it'd be cheaper. I called a rental place cos I thought I remembered someone saying you could get their old ones from there but they said they have someone who comes and picks them up and takes them away but they don't know who it is :?

Thanx guys

 

[Magpie]

Council clean ups, trading post....

 

[herptrader]

Kitchens

 

[swampie]

Try a fridge repair place, or put a wanted add in the paper, or scap metal yards .

 

[OuZo]

Ahhhh a fridge repair place! That's genius! lol I have a trading post here but haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Might do some calling around later

 

[JandC_Reptiles]

Metal scrap yards. You have to be quick before they crush them, so it may pay to ask them to hold onto 1 for you.

Our local scrap yard is closed sundays but has an area outside their front gate for drop offs. We picked ours up on a sunday & found a selection of 5 or more of differing sizes & it is the same almost every week.

 

[herptrader]

Council recycling depot's, the sort of place that will take used sump oil and the like will often have some. People can take their old fridges there to get the freon taken out without releasing it to the environment and damageing the ozone layer. The Monash one on Ferntreegully road for example has a colony of fridges in its yard.

Your local municiple tip is another option. Fridges often do not get dumped immediately for the same freon reason.

Places that sell new fridges. Often they will remove the old one for free as part of delivery... and they have to dispose of it somewhere.

 

[playwell]

I got this new fridge from a seconds place. Free :wink:

The compressor was stuffed so they pull all the bits off that they wanted, and I got want I wanted, and didnt even have to pull it apart.

 

[africancichlidau]

Tell Souly that there is one sitting in someone's back yard in Jack Street I am sure he'll appreciate that info

 

[OuZo]

Thanx everyone (except Phil :twisted: ) that's really helpful .

Playwell, when you say seconds place you mean like factory seconds? Or a store that sells second hand whitegoods? Yours looks awesome...how did you do the viewing panel? Do you find that heat escapes through it?

JandC reptiles did you have to pay for them there? I've just been yellow pages-ing and found a scrap metal place near where I work and one near where I live so I'll give em a call and see what they say.

Thanx Daavid, I might try some places that sell new fridges and I was planning on trying the tip too

 

[OuZo]

I am slowly discovering that men who work at scrap metal places either have no personality, are incapable of holding a conversation (one word answers) or are rude :shock: :?

 

[JandC_Reptiles]

It didnt cost me anything.
However I picked mine up when they were not open & the goods were dumped outside their gates ready for them to collect come monday morning.

 

[playwell]

I got mine from a factory seconds place not fare from me. I just walked in and asked if they had any fridges that didnt work and they wanted to get rid of.

No the heat dosn't escape as I have a 15mm air cavity between two 10mm peices of glass.

I am going back to get another very soon, just to build another one cause it was fun. Then I may try to sell one. See how it goes.
Thats after I finsh my reptile room refurbishment with solid timber enlcosures. Time is a killer. :roll: