/diy/ - Do It Yourself

make a leak in the cooling tubes in the back.

>>1864268
Kink capillary tube. This will cause freezer to go bananas cold, and fridge will be warm (if it is pic-related fridge, not fancy no-frost or single-evap fridge)

>>1864282
Are there any liquids under pressure one would need to worry about when doing this?

>>1864287
This is good but I'm going to introduce a hard mode- no spiking the electricity bill (also preferably no fire risk haha)

Solutions that don't satisfy hard mode welcome as well

theres probably a fan in the freezer compartment
spray saltwater in there on it or on the bearings if you can preferably every 4 hours till the fan quits turning or starts making dieing cat noises.
should take about a week or so.

leave the door open for a while

>>1864268
Make an adaptor and plug it into the 240 volt outlet used by the stove.

>>1864287
This will just stop it from cooling

>>1864268
Why don't you just buy your own "non dangerous" fridge you bitch? They're like 50 fucking dollars.

>>1864268
start an unrelated fire on the stove

>>1864268
hey so what is dangerous about the fridge exactly?

>>1864800
it's haunted

>>1864806
is that all?
you know, if the fridge has been there for 60 years working fine the whole time, and it stops working after you've complained about it, you are going to be suspect number one.

>>1864268
>landlord
Don't you mean your mother who doesn't have any money because she spends it all on you, you useless fat piece of garbage neet. Buy her a new fridge faggot

>>1864268
how can a fridge be dangerous?
inb4 ammonia

>>1864268
why sabotage something that was clearly built to last only to replace it with something which isn't?
just fix it. dont be a pussy

>>1864268
>needs to ask the landlord to buy him a new fridge

>>1864872
This.

>>1864268
Steal the condenser motor and send it to me

>>1864872
you know fridges only last like 8 years max
also why would he fix something that isn't his

>>1865193
>you know fridges only last like 8 years max
New fridges, maybe, which is what he was saying.
Mine has run for over double that.

>>1864296
Um... Disassemble the start relay and paint contacts black.

>>1864295
Nope. Should be fine.

All these responses and not one good one...

OP it’s simple.
1) Unplug refrigerator.
2)Turn refrigerator upside down.
3) Plug refrigerator back in.
4) Wait for compressor to fail.
5) Turn refrigerator back upright.

>>1864625
Are you trying to kill OP?

>>1864268
Lay it down and let it run. I once killed a fridge in about 5 hours in the same situation.

>>1864268


Easy as fuck dude. Just cover the back where the heat exchanger is located. Thing will overheat, maybe not today, but wont take long until its broke.

>>1864780
My state (PA) has a buy back program if you replace it with a energy star fridge. I got a fridge for 500 bucks and they sent me 75 bucks a week after they picked up my old unit.

>>1864268
Buy your own home. Do what you want.

>>1865193
>also why would he fix something that isn't his
that's what you do? normal human behavior?

Your going to have to wait a few months after you complained so its not suss

>>1864268
Scumbag

>>1865335
thats not nice anon letting op take a chance to win a darwin award
>>1865336
Sounds pretty reasonable. should seize the compressor bearings without letting poisonous/cancerous/flammable chemicals out of the loop

>>1864268
Adjust the defrost timer to never. Pretty simple. Many are like Christmas tree timers and you can just pull a little tab. The coils will freeze and it's kaput. Easy to fix back if something goes wrong.

>>1864806
Dude, DIY exorcism isn't that hard.

>>1867642
thats absolutely preposterous, but then so is renting.

>>1864268
Probably too late to help you but don't remove any godamn covers or kink anything you fucking autists
>how did this break?
>can we fix instead of replace?
>looks like the back plate was recently removed seeing as the grease and dust are freshly scraped
>only thing out of place is a kinked house with a smooth bored hole in it
>anon you owe us a fridge and are never getting your deposit back

Just cover the exhaust vents with something non flammable and run it on maximum cool

>>1865193
Isn't he using it? shouldn't you treat it like its yours if you're using it? Wtf don't be a nigger, and remind me to never let you borrow anything you godamn nigger

>>1864268
my parents gave a new Samsung and my grandad came ove and pressed buttons that put it in display mode, which turns off the compresser. see if the fridge jn question has that option.

Move the fridge into the garage or storage, buy your own and plug it in. Take the new one with you when you move out, put old fridge back in place... It's not that hard.

Take a dump in it

>>1868607
>my grandad came over and pressed buttons
oh shit

>>1864296
tip it over on its side for a couple hours. Tip it back up, then turn it back on. The oil will run out of the compressor

>>1867642
Cuck behaviour

>>1864800
OP is a deadbeat scumbag, any food he would put in it would be suspect.

Convincing pic, btw

>>1865193
I've been in this apartment for 12 years with the same fridge, and I'm sure it was here well before I got here. Just had to clean it recently, and works good. I'd replace it if it were mine, but it's not.

>>1864773
Unless the landowner is an EE, or calls some sparky, he will likely assume the worst - the piece of shit fridge that OP complained about for 3 months finally kicked the bucket.

>>1865193
>also why would he fix something that isn't his
most people have pride about their living conditions and want to keep things in working order.

>>1864268
>dangerous fridge
Step 1, go to the salon and freshen up your complain to the manager haircut so they know you mean business.

>>1864806
I mean if that's the case the spectre is just going to inhabit the new fridge.

>>1864268
Appliance tech here. Tip it over, onto its back, while it is running. Maybe even upside down. This puts the oil from the compressor into the lines, which then freezes and blocks the whole thing up. Cannot be repaired, certainly not for a profit so nobody will do it.

Pic related, fatal coolant blockage. Just bottoms up and it will do that.

>>1864815
Do you reallly think OP’s landlord is gonna think “This fucker destroyed the fridge” and not “Maybe the noises were a sign it was gonna break anyway”

>>1875471
Sure looks a lot more like low charge than a blockage.... also pretty easy to blow out an oil restriction, especially if you don’t give a fuck about changing the filter dryer...

>>1864849
R600 plus flame...

>>1875535
Meh, it is 100 grams there. Just not much worse than cup of gasoline. Unless you live in house where kitchen is so small those 100 grams is enough for explosive limit.
>>1875471
Stop scamming people. This is R134a, a shitty refrigerant gunked up and clogged capillary. Just fill shit with R600a (this will work with that clogged tube) or replace capillary. This is not poorfag full-frost shit, but a nice one, so you can replace that faggot tube.
Or gas vented.

>>1864268
Fucking degenerate millennial.

The landlord is under no obligation to provide you with a high end refrigerator. Purposely damaging someone else's property is a crime.

I hope you get caught and evicted. If no such luck, hopefully he replaces it with an even shittier one.

Fuckin' loser.

>>1865335
no it's not. older fridges might have phosgene in them.

>>1865193
>you know fridges only last like 8 years max
two years ago i had to replace my fridge, it came with the house i bought in 2016

it was from 1994

have you considered for a moment, not being a massive faggot piece of shit?

>>1877930
Real old shits had ammonia in them. After that they switched to R12, R134a, propane, isobutane and shit. Phosgene was never used in refrigeration.

>>1864625
If you connected the two prongs to any 2 prongs of the stove outlet, it would just run like normal drawing 110 volts. If you shorted two of them, you would blow a fuse and possibly electrocute yourself, but probably not affect the fridge.

>>1865193
>fridges last like 8 years max
My old house had a chest freezer from 1973 that still ran perfectly when I moved out two years ago.

>>1864268
kill your landlord

>>1864268
Replace the cooling fluid with diesel

>>1878181
Idk if it would work, because in my 220V shithole we had worst case scenario: 250V on the lines, and neutral just fell off at transformer, which had lead to 410V going to fridge and it started making loud noises... Nobody cared until all power supplies at home started exploding. Fridge survived.
That said, invertor fridge would probably die in spectacular way

>>1864268
You have the right in the USA to withhold your rent until he fixes it. Just stop paying until he does.

He can't remove you.

>>1864268
Take the fuse out of the plug.
Most people won't check and you've not actually broken anything.

>>1864997
THey will probably cycle in a used one.

>>1879779
This is not true. every state has its own Tenant-Landlord laws. in my state appliances are not covered by the landlord unless implicitly included in your contract. leases are not favored in my state, and rental contracts are usually basic "don't destroy stuff, or lose your deposit, mow the grass and don't annoy the neighbors, also pay us $500 for any kittens"

>>1864800

Refrigerant gas can be dangerous, hot and at high pressure ig tnkeres while operating.

>>1881907
Meh, freon safe.
Otherwise niggers here wouldn't have stolen all freon lines on R410a heatpumps that have 35-40 bars in them

>>1864806
Just enjoy the ghost calories.

It would be funny if they dragged in a shittier one after you fucked this one up.

>>1877929
this tbdesu.
>>1864268
how is it dangerous OP? how about you do the legwork, find a fridge you'd like, send your landlord all the details and if he still refuses, fucking move.