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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Gotta clean that nasty sucker out every once in a while

A Fort Worth family said they didn’t notice anything unusual before their eight-year-old refrigerator exploded inside their home. 

“No noises, no smell, no nothing. Just a regular, good refrigerator. I would think it was a great refrigerator,” said Llajaira Bolaños. 

Bolaños said she, her husband, and three children were sleeping when they heard the explosion just before 11 p.m. on Feb. 2.
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  1. SendariusApril 22, 2021 at 6:38 AM

    Many more modern refrigerators (more modern then mine, that is) use R600a as the refrigerent gas.

    That stuff is actually combustible, and a slow leak can cause an accumulation of gas in the insulation, where a spark (like when the compressor starts) can ignite it. It then goes off like a fuel-air bomb.

    Why use R600a? That's because of the hysteria over the alleged ozone depleting problem associated with the CFC Freon formerly used.

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  2. Son of ReepApril 22, 2021 at 6:54 AM

    If that Mexican food can do that to a refrigerator imagine what it does to your sphincter (aka rosy red ass gasket)

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  3. Carl "Bear" BussjaegerApril 22, 2021 at 7:20 AM

    Yep, isobutane. A fridge fire in the UK killed a bunch of people a few years back. Although the flammable exterior sheathing they'd installed didn't help.

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