/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1411923
>mfw 80 posts and nobody here told OP to let fridge upside-down a whole night (unplugged) like it was common back then when you just bought a new fridge.
tl,dr; Do it.
It helps good old Freon to escape from places where it might have been clogged for ages, and form a mother fucking cloud (the kind that fuck ozone layer) right in the compressor, as Freon is lighter than air and lubricant.

>>1420717
>>1420720
First try if upside-down procedure above give results. If so, then it's time to give this old dude a favor and do a relevant restoration : wash it with oven-cleaning spray to get ride of most filth,then get paint remover and apply it on the whole door except on the letters (they might be dissolved).
Then two options :
1*/ shitty paint goes off, and you have proper enamel back, maybe a bit whiter because paint remover got some crap off with old paint. Put two layers of plastic coating, and you are done.
2*/ shitty paint goes off, and enamel too. Very unlikely because enamel is usually strong as fuck, but as we are talking about cold-war era enamel, there might be some rust behind it that would have fucked it anyway soon or later. If so, sand the whole door, and use glossy white car paint to make it great again.