rolltideroll
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- Oct 25, 2006
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Anyone here ever used one of those weekly timers that you can get at Wal-Mart for about 4 bucks? Well I found a 15.5 cubic foot GE deepfreezer last week and the thermostat is gone out in it. i'm sure thats why it was put out in the trash in the 1st place. But I put me a jumper wire across the thermostat and the compressor came on and I ran it till I got the thing down to around zero Farenheit. So I looked in all my junk parts drawers and could only find a/c thermostats so I went wanted to try something new. I wired in one of those 4 dollar timers ( the ones with the plastic pins that you push and pull out to program your on and off times). I set it to run 1 hour on and then 1 hour off and so on and also putting in a few 30 minute runs and 2 hour offs. and it seems to be a perfect solution to not having a thermostat handy to repalce it. Anyone here ever used on in an application like mine? I would like to hear of other unusual applications. I'm fascinated by these little timers. LOL. But they are pretty neat little devices. I'm always doing funny things with my washers and dryers. I, as a gag, for my wife, took a perfect wig-wag I picked up as a trade in. It needed a paintjob in a bad way. Well I had several cans of International Harvester Red spray paint so I painted the body of the washer red and went and bought a can of Krylon's new fusion srap paint which by the way is some damn good paint for plastic and painted the console green since all the writing had faded bad. I ran across a 1960's vintage Coca Cola~ "Have a Coke" round sign that I salvaged from an old chest type coke machine and epoxyed it on the front of the washer and mounted a bottle opener on the front of washer that also was salvaged from old coke machine. she loved it. I told her we can always fill it up with ice and drinks at next BBQ and it even has a built in drain when the ice melts. haha. Sorry I have no pics, I use a public computer. I own everything but a computer.
