Thanks ed, I got your pmail and replied.

I will try again to get the fin assembly detached from the pipe. And if, i mean when, i succeed I'll post pics.

I was just guessing about heat gun helping. It might , I'll see

Alistair

> On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:13 PM, Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
> 
> I can't read steve meassick's messages because I only read from the
> archives so I don't know what was said about using the heat gun.  I've
> not found a heat gun to be be necessary.  The interior fins simply snap
> on the cooling pipe.  The fins can be twisted to break them loose and
> then pulled off starting from the right end.  The right end goes of the
> cooling pipe goes through the back wall of the box and is supported
> better than the left.  It doesn't take a lot of force to remove the
> fins.
> 
> The modification I made was to remove the open section of fins and
> replaced them with a section of cast aluminum cooling fins from an old,
> old computer.  This was similar to the original cooling unit but added
> more net surface area for heat transfer.  That modification, along with
> a small fan and some thermal paste from Radio Shack (remember them?), a
> couple of additional fans in the rear to remove heat and some insulating
> of the chimney unit resulted in a refrigerator that actually works
> pretty good in cool weather but still not so well in the Summer.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:16:03 -0700, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
> wrote:
> 
>> It wouldn't budge and I didn't think of using heat gun. Will get around
> to it.
>> 
>> Alistair