USAFBILL wrote:
QUOTE "As great as J-B Weld is, and I use it regularly, I wouldn't want to totally restrict any thermal expansion (movement) in a piece of tubing. If you were to restrict that movement, a failure could happen even sooner and you might void any possible Dometic warranty (if there even is a warranty!!). "
If you only covered the welded section (where I hear most failures occur) would that restrict any more then the weld does now? Mine is still under their extended warrany but I am not sure just how good that is now after all of this.
You would have to go beyond their weld to parent metal for full support - would that be restrictive - maybe, but I'm quite sure that any warranty you have would have for sure would be voided as soon as a tech saw that nice black J-B Weld. I guess that I'd not do anything with it, the chance of fire is very small, make sure that your refrigerator access compartment is well vented. I have a single 'D' battery fan that moves a very small amount of air that we use in the refrigerator that I'll move to the access compartment and will be using until Dometic decides what band-aid fix they are going to try.
If your refrigerator dies, then you invoke your extended warranty - and not spend several hundreds of dollars for a replacement.
