About that noise......

Thanks for the additional info, Dave.

Just as much as I was comfortable with accepting, nothing to be concerned about.

-- Cheers, WB .............

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:14:00 -0400, "Wild_Bill" put finger to keyboard and composed:

My Westinghouse pops as well. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

- Franc Zabkar

I reckon that there's a world-wide conspiracy among fridge manufacturers to make their products do this ... d[:-\\

Arfa

Hi!

I will practically guarantee that your refrigerator is suffering from aged rubber mounts on the compressor motor. They can be replaced, cost is a few dollars and maybe a half an hour's worth of work. The heat produced by the compressor slowly hardens them, and when it does, you hear that motor come to a stop.

Even if you don't do anything about it, this noise is unlikely to have any effect at all on the life of the fridge.

William

Hi!

I really think that a fridge or freezer almost can't help but be noisy. At one end, you have cold and of course at the other you have hot (sometimes very hot). And then there are all the dissimilar materials, metal, plastic, foam, etc with differing rates of expansion and contraction. As such, I find it remarkable that they are as quiet as they are.

If this is a self-defrosting model, I wouldn't be surprised if you were hearing something reacting to the heat put off by the defrost heater.

I once knew of an *old* beverage cooler that sounded like someone was constantly throwing marbles at a wood door whenever it ran. Still, it worked just fine until the building it was in was torn down. They moved everything out first, so it might even still be running somewhere...

William

William is correct, it`s the motor shaking around in it`s boots, sometimes a bit of seruptitious foam packing helps to reduce the noise. I repaired fridges for years, hate the bloody things!

Ron(UK)

And thanks to all who responded. I think I'll tear into it this weekend and see what I can find.

Thanks Again!