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brucehoult:

--- Quote from: drussell on October 13, 2018, 10:40:56 am ---For defrosting a freezer I've always found that my grandma's method of putting an electric kettle boiling some water in there for a few minutes works wonders.  In a chest-type deep freezer all the ice chunks will just fall off the walls after a few minutes.  In a fridge with exposed fins that have frozen over it takes a bit longer but is less work than going after it with a hair drier or heat gun, though that can help to get the last bits with minimal effort.

Of course, you need to find an older kettle that doesn't have an auto-shutoff.  Today's plastic crap would probably just melt if you bypass the thermal shutoff switch, even if you didn't accidentally boil it to dryness.

Does anyone else remember a time when appliances were made out of a thing called metal?  :)

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Room temperature air will melt ice pretty fast. You just have to keep getting new air in there, not let it sit and get cold i.e. use a fan. Or fan heater is better, but not as much better as you'd think.

Room temperature water is even faster if you can just point a hose in there while the freezer is somewhere that you can't care about the water that spills out again.

It's all about energy transfer rather then extreme temperatures.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on October 14, 2018, 04:04:42 am ---scratch back with iron :-\

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Off I hope? :-DD
coppercone2:
yea , just one of those insane itches
tautech:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on October 14, 2018, 04:08:46 am ---
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on October 14, 2018, 04:04:42 am ---scratch back with iron :-\

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Off I hope? :-DD

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--- Quote from: coppercone2 on October 14, 2018, 04:13:09 am ---yea , just one of those insane itches

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You can't beat a long handled 22, 24 or 28oz Estwing hammer for a back scratcher especially if it's of the straight claw demolition model.  :D

Brumby:

--- Quote from: brucehoult on October 14, 2018, 04:07:52 am ---Room temperature water is even faster if you can just point a hose in there while the freezer is somewhere that you can't care about the water that spills out again.

It's all about energy transfer rather then extreme temperatures.

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I'm glad someone put this in.

So long as you can suitably control the flow of the waste water, this is really fast and minimal risk to the equipment.
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