What's inside a Refrigerator Compressor

[BradKW]

YouTube video I found interesting...he just a stripdown of a unit with running commentary:

What's inside a Refrigerator Compressor

 

[abnorm]

Thanks Brad.....too cool.....I've always loved to tear apart stuff to discover the "magic" inside..... especially if I didn't have to REassemble.....I've saved his site for later perusing

doug

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

..... especially if I didn't have to REassemble.

Ha, I spent many childhood days taking apart things that broke.  Now when I do it and have to put it back together, I miss the old days when the project only went one way

 

[GypsyDogs]

That made me smile- My mother had an old wind up alarm clock that she would put on a cookie sheet and an assortment of small screw drivers and pliers and give us kids when we were bed-ridden-sick.

As I got older-I even got it to wind and tick after putting it back together..

 

[highdesertranger]

when I used to recycle I would cut those open for the copper. highdesertranger

 

[Ballenxj]

KOOL video, Thanks.

 

[BradKW]

One thing I found surprising was the consistency of the "oil" in the "pan". You know the old adage about never starting a fridge after it's been laying on it's side because it takes X amount of time for the compressor oil to settle back down?

That stuff was a thin as water. Raises some questions...probably no answers tho

 

[Mobilesport]

Really cool video , i imagine a 12 volt Danfoss compressor would be simular.