screwing into fridge
the original fridge that came with our motor home did not work so I placed a residential unit in and am just now getting around to making a trim piece to go around it. I would like to screw it to the...
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F105 wrote:Deano56 wrote:
I don't know why going through the sheet metal outer box would be a bad idea unless the coils were rite behind the skin which I believe are in the back of the fridge. I am up loading pics now, hope it helps.
I agree the coils are in the back of the fridge - what I'm concerned about is voiding the sealed portion of the box by penetrating it with screw holes - they sealed for a reason.
You're going to screw through a piece of sheet metal and seal that hole with a piece of metal (the screw). I've never seen a frig where the sidewalls weren't simply an insulated part of the box with nothing inside them but insulation. I think there are freezers (like chest freezers) where the sides of the box are cooled by coils in the walls, but that's not what you have. So in my opinion (which has very little experience with refrigeration) I'd probably do it.
