Worthwhile fix/repairing AC/DC Norcold frig?

ljwarner wrote:

Is Dorm considered a "better" fridge than Norcold?

"Dorm" is not a brand, but a general style of fridge--the cheap little cubes or cube-and-a-half fridges that college students use in dorm rooms and professionals use in department break rooms when there isn't anything better available. Typically, they're about as cheap and inefficient as household fridges come. Thanks to modern manufacturing processes and high volume manufacturing, that doesn't really mean they're particularly unreliable.

The Norcold should be better in most ways, certainly more energy efficient and quite possibly better built. I suspect some here were imagining you had an absorption fridge (which could also be used on propane), which is quite a different beast altogether with its own advantages and drawbacks.