Residential refrigerator travel lock

Gdetrailer wrote:

RayChez wrote:
And that has been the problem when you replace an RV refrigerator with a residential fridge. The refrigerator doors keep flying open on just about any turn you make. So yes, you have to install something to keep things in the refrigerator or else it will be all over the floor. I like the one Dutch shows on his pictures.

My problem would be that I can not go up anymore, my fridge is all the way to the ceiling, so I would have to go down and the furnace is under there somewhere. Don't know how much room I would have. Hope I never have to go into making such modifications on my coach. I think I would rather go the with the Amish coils since my Norcold has worked flawless so far. Keeps the ice cream solid.

Many RV fridges do not have a "lock", I had a RV fridge that didn't have a lock, it relied on the magnets in the gasket like a home fridge, never spilled anything.

As far as spending money on a "Amish" cooling unit, it is money tossed down the drain. Spend $600 on a CU and you STILL have other expensive things like control board ($250), gaskets and some models DOOR HINGES (which some of those there is no replacement for)..

Ice cream in a RV fridge? Yeah, right, the one we had you would have a sloppy mess, couldn't even take popsicles since they would just turn into one huge clumped mess.

Home fridges are very easy to add a latch, typically they have extra holes already in place to allow you to flip the door opening..

Just measure between the doors and go to your local hardware store and find a simple latch which will fit between the doors.

Our 10 cu ft home fridge cost $300, a simple latch from hardware store cost $3.. PRICELESS to not have 50F fridge temps and we now have rock hard ice cream.

And by the way there HAS been several members of this forum that have experience major malfunctions of their Amish replacement CUs and one after several attempts changed over to a home fridge and they full time boondock..

So you do not believe that my Norcold 1200 LRIM keeps the ice cream solid in the freezer? I hope you are not thinking I keep it in the refrigerator part where it is 34 degrees. :S
And I guess all these other gentlemen that showed pictures of how to prevent the doors from flying open are also posting pictures that are not true?

Also I never did say that a residential refrigerator was not a good idea, BUT! you got to have the room to put one in, and every situation would be different. That is why I said I would probably go with the Amish coils for my situation. Joe Blow down the street might be different.

SOME the doors will fly open if they do not have a good locking system. Some were not designed to be in motor homes where they bounce around. That is why SamSung will not warranty any refrigerator that is installed in an RV that was designed for a stick house.

If the doors did not pop open why would Dutch 12078, Ivylog, Don2346 post pictures of good ideas as to what they have done to prevent the doors from flying open? It is not me making this things up, IT IS A FACT.