So I hit it with a hammer...

[K'Ehleyr]

I have a little camping fridge
It's the only fridge I've got
The freezer bit was full of ice
and defrost would it not.

To give it some encouragement
with the hammer did I tap
Only to cause a gaseous leak
and that's when I said 'crap'.

The moral of this story
is very plain to see
hammering a fridge
can ruin your Saturdee!

On ringing Dad to ask if the gas was good gas and I would be laughing madly shortly or it I should evict said fridge, I was informed that apparently this way of 'freezer de-frosting' was in fact inherited as my Gramps used to do it with a chisel

I can't be the only one who has ignored caution labels, and, on reflection, basic common sense? Please make me feel a little less stupid than I do right now

 

[Lookingglassman]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I feel bad for you
I really do!

 

[May 20]

If it helps any, my husband managed to kill his office fridge in much the same way.

 

[FPAlpha]

Can beat that by far.

The uncle of my father, a former director for the state bureau of construction (smart man you'd assume) has once installed a new gas bottle to his kitchen and then proceeded to light a match to see if the couplings were all tight and there were no gas leaks!

My father went cold inside upon seeing this and rushed over to knock out the burning flame near the gas bottle.

The uncle told him that it was the method a guy at the gas place taught him to which my dad drove there, asked for the manager and explained everything. Turns out to be a "joke" by the employee.. the manager joke was to fire him on the spot.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've used a kitchen knife to do some emergency defrosting at 0100 in the morning. Freezer still works. Sadly, it looks like the kitchen knife no longer does.

However, my hand-to-hand combat skill has now improved by... exactly 0 experience points.

 

[Plecostomus]

I've broken many machines over the years. Most recent one was a drill press I smoked.

 

[WillsBabe]

When I was a kid my bedroom lamp had a bare wire. I'd seen my dad wrap insulation tape around wires. So I went to the kitchen drawer and got some Sellotape, went back upstairs and wrapped a bunch of Sellotape around the wire, plugged in the lamp and got blown half way across the bedroom floor, shorting the electricity to the rest of the house in the bargain. Haven't done that again in a hurry! *Sellotape =Scotch tape for the non-Brits amongst us.

 

[JuanBolio]

It tastes like poison!
It smells like stink!
Its cyanide you fool!
And I put it in your drink!

JB

 

[Australis]

I to have punctured a fridge trying to defrost it the physical way. Fortunately, we had a friend who was a fridge mechanic, and could fix and regas it..

I've broken many machines over the years. Most recent one was a drill press I smoked.

You shouldn't smoke drill presses. As bad for the lungs as a dozen Marlboros.





What?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Stop! Hammer time!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'll join this club. Several years ago, I decided to defrost my freezer, it being inconvenient that I could only store one TV Dinner at a time. Needless to say, I got impatient and got out a hammer and a Phillip's head screwdriver. It went well for a while until the screwdriver went through the back wall of the freezer, releasing an unpleasant odor and compromising the the appliance's ability to generate coldness.

My new refrigerator continues to do well, though.

 

[Plecostomus]

Idiots.

You don't use percussive force to defrost something you use FIRE.


Do I have to explain everything...

 

[Capn Flukie]

Huh. I just turn off the fridge and wait for the clunk.

 

[FPAlpha]

Huh. I just turn off the fridge and wait for the clunk.

Ah.. the pussy version. Turned in your manclub membership card already?

If it's not going whack, boom or blammo or doesn't require tools (preferably powered ones) it's not worth doing.

 

[Capn Flukie]

But I get to drink all the beer in the fridge before it gets warm!

 

[trekkiedane]

Idiots.

You don't use percussive force to defrost something you use FIRE.


Do I have to explain everything...

It ruined my toaster so ever since I've used a hair dryer....

 

[JonathonWally]

But I get to drink all the beer in the fridge before it gets warm!

QFT!

 

[Aragorn]

If this had been a Jayson thread, the "it" hit with a hammer would've been much different.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

^ Sorry to disappoint!

Thanks for all similar stories I , WillsCorpse and FPAlpha ~ those stories scare me
Good news is though I now have a 'new-to-me' fridge and freezer purchased for the grand sum of 20 English pounds!
Will be defrosting both with either a hairdryer, bowl of hot water of just the 'waiting for the clunk' method!

Frozen oven chips for me tonight *sings song*

 

[trekkiedane]

If you have a method for it to leave the fridge/freezer (a big bucket) you can pour 'cold' (tap temperature) water on the ice build up and make it melt a lot faster than with hot air (hairdryer or vapours from bowl of hot water).