bigjoe
14-07-2004, 06:23 PM
Has anyone ever seen a Fake Refrigerator ? Well! I think I have.
In 2001 my daughter gave me a brand new [Admiral] 12 cub ft ..no frost ..top mount
refrigerator with no clean condenser ..made in Mexico. Same was bought from the expatriate
appliance store COURTS and up to now it works well....'Knock on wood'.
A few months ago a neighbour of mine called me over to have a look at her frost free..top
mount Admiral that had the timer replaced by a local tech only to find that it still
produced no cooling effect. I traced the leak to the copper suction line where it meets
the aluminium cooling coil. I was amazed to find lots of cigarette butts and match sticks
just under the styrofoam on which the cooling coil sits. She vowed that since purchasing
the fridge ..brand new from COURTS.. it was never repaired .???From where did the butts and
sticks originate?
The schematic was barely visible and so I downloaded same from the Net. This prompted me
to have a look at my own schematic. Oops! there was none. So I took off the model number
ART 360 [ all it had was ART 360]and tried searching through several Search engines..No luck.
Got a friendly forum moderator to send me ART Nos. from his appliance CD Rom. There were over
100..all relate to Maytag Stoves and Refrigerators made by Maytag.
Now Maytag is the owner of Admiral and repeated Emails to the customer dept. giving all
info requested by them failed to find Admiral ART 360. At first glance the model No . is
short ..generally quite a few digits would follow.
This is a far cry from the false Seiko , Gucci Bags , Armani Suits and prescription drugs...
etc, etc. Next,cars and Planes ? Or are we there already ?
In 2001 my daughter gave me a brand new [Admiral] 12 cub ft ..no frost ..top mount
refrigerator with no clean condenser ..made in Mexico. Same was bought from the expatriate
appliance store COURTS and up to now it works well....'Knock on wood'.
A few months ago a neighbour of mine called me over to have a look at her frost free..top
mount Admiral that had the timer replaced by a local tech only to find that it still
produced no cooling effect. I traced the leak to the copper suction line where it meets
the aluminium cooling coil. I was amazed to find lots of cigarette butts and match sticks
just under the styrofoam on which the cooling coil sits. She vowed that since purchasing
the fridge ..brand new from COURTS.. it was never repaired .???From where did the butts and
sticks originate?
The schematic was barely visible and so I downloaded same from the Net. This prompted me
to have a look at my own schematic. Oops! there was none. So I took off the model number
ART 360 [ all it had was ART 360]and tried searching through several Search engines..No luck.
Got a friendly forum moderator to send me ART Nos. from his appliance CD Rom. There were over
100..all relate to Maytag Stoves and Refrigerators made by Maytag.
Now Maytag is the owner of Admiral and repeated Emails to the customer dept. giving all
info requested by them failed to find Admiral ART 360. At first glance the model No . is
short ..generally quite a few digits would follow.
This is a far cry from the false Seiko , Gucci Bags , Armani Suits and prescription drugs...
etc, etc. Next,cars and Planes ? Or are we there already ?