Gordon--

My Adler Barbour Cold Machine is (was) about 3 years younger than yours, and
my advice is to replace the whole unit, condenser, evaporator, and all.
Primary reason is the old refrigerant, which is now unavailable, for
environmental reasons. You can retrofit the old units to accept the newer
refrigerants, but at a fairly high cost and only suspect reliability. I'm
in the process of replacing our A/B, and have just about settled on a unit
from Sea Freeze of America. They're $825 complete at Fisheries Supply in
Seattle--about 2/3 the cost of replacing the A/B, and equal in terms of
quality, I'm told. FWIW.

Smooth seas,

Dick Behan
M/V "Annie"


"gordon" wrote in message
...
My Adler Barber Cold machine (1983) has a leak where the aluminum tubing
from the evaporator joins the copper tube, which runs back to the
condenser. the existing connection appears to be some type of rubber or
plastic tubing. any way to repair this.

thanks in advance

gordon

I see Dick's advice, and raise him as follows:

Buy an economy high efficiency compact mains fridge on sale.
Buy an inverter.
Hook item 2) to item 1) and put the other
$600 in the savings account.
You WILL need it.

Brian Whatcott


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:17:31 -0700, "R.W. Behan"
wrote:

Gordon--

My Adler Barbour Cold Machine is (was) about 3 years younger than yours, and
my advice is to replace the whole unit, condenser, evaporator, and all.
Primary reason is the old refrigerant, which is now unavailable, for
environmental reasons. You can retrofit the old units to accept the newer
refrigerants, but at a fairly high cost and only suspect reliability. I'm
in the process of replacing our A/B, and have just about settled on a unit
from Sea Freeze of America. They're $825 complete at Fisheries Supply in
Seattle--about 2/3 the cost of replacing the A/B, and equal in terms of
quality, I'm told. FWIW.

Smooth seas,

Dick Behan

"gordon" wrote in message
...
My Adler Barber Cold machine (1983) has a leak where the aluminum tubing
from the evaporator join
M/V "Annie"
s the copper tube, which runs back to the
condenser. the existing connection appears to be some type of rubber or
plastic tubing. any way to repair this.

thanks in advance

gordon

I did exactly the same as you Brian, has been working perfectly for several
years now.
If anything goes wrong just get a replacement from your local fridge
supplier and if the inverter breaks, which I found is unlikely, then get a
new one from your local friendly chandler

Tony uk

"Brian Whatcott" wrote in message
...

I see Dick's advice, and raise him as follows:

Buy an economy high efficiency compact mains fridge on sale.
Buy an inverter.
Hook item 2) to item 1) and put the other
$600 in the savings account.
You WILL need it.

Brian Whatcott


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:17:31 -0700, "R.W. Behan"
wrote:

Gordon--

My Adler Barbour Cold Machine is (was) about 3 years younger than yours,
and
my advice is to replace the whole unit, condenser, evaporator, and all.
Primary reason is the old refrigerant, which is now unavailable, for
environmental reasons. You can retrofit the old units to accept the newer
refrigerants, but at a fairly high cost and only suspect reliability. I'm
in the process of replacing our A/B, and have just about settled on a unit
from Sea Freeze of America. They're $825 complete at Fisheries Supply in
Seattle--about 2/3 the cost of replacing the A/B, and equal in terms of
quality, I'm told. FWIW.

Smooth seas,

Dick Behan

"gordon" wrote in message
...
My Adler Barber Cold machine (1983) has a leak where the aluminum tubing
from the evaporator join
M/V "Annie"
s the copper tube, which runs back to the
condenser. the existing connection appears to be some type of rubber or
plastic tubing. any way to repair this.

thanks in advance

gordon