Neighbour's Appliance.com » Repairs http://neighboursappliance.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:45:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lokring Compression Fittings http://neighboursappliance.com/2008/04/lokring-compression-fittings.html http://neighboursappliance.com/2008/04/lokring-compression-fittings.html#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:05:57 +0000 strathy http://neighboursappliance.com/2008/04/lokring-compression-fittings.html Lokring FittingAre we finally going to get away from soldering and  all the problems that are associated with it? According to this post at Technician Brian.com – Sub Zero is demonstrating Lokring fittings. We’ve seen a couple of compression fittings on the Whirlpool fridges but no information has been presented on how to make the connection in the field. I would love to be able to use this, especially for a process stub to check pressures, etc.

As an aside, when guys find leaks on the Whirlpool compression fittings, they’ve been cutting them out and joining the ends together with a sleeve. Twice, I have simply heated the compression and soldered completely over it and not had any problems. It looks kind of ugly, but it works for me.

]]> http://neighboursappliance.com/2008/04/lokring-compression-fittings.html/feed 0 My Dryer is Squeeling http://neighboursappliance.com/2007/02/my-dryer-is-squeeling.html http://neighboursappliance.com/2007/02/my-dryer-is-squeeling.html#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:43:00 +0000 strathy http://neighboursappliance.com/?p=60 Whirlpool, KitchenAid and Inglis dryers all have this style of idler pulley. This one was squeeling and was quite worn. I did a close up of the wheel shaft where you can see it has worn the hole oblong.

Idler Pulley   Idler Pully Closeup

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