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I have just got a brand new fridge aftrer mine finally packed up whilst in Newquay, anyway i cant phone the guys i got it from as there at a trade show in Germany!!! So here goes its a RM4210 as shown here fridge It has a 8mm gas intake but looking inside it it has some sort of foam inside it should that be there ?? Plus it had a rod dangling in the exhaust whats that for ??????

Cheers in advance

James

Hi, Twisted dangly bit as you so aptly describe it is correct and should be in the exhaust /exchanger.

Foam? where is this foam what sort of foam
Mike

Thought dangly thing ment to be there just wondered what it does? The foam im not sure what sort not like packing foam nore like sponge??? Its inside the pipe that goes to the main control valve its only a short bit of pipe and easy to take off just dont want to remove the foam stuff if ment to be there !!!

The foam will be in there to stop "pooh" getting in whilst in transit or its found its way in by accident, never seen it before.
Mike

that is the same as mine ( well to all intense and purposes, mine is a 4123) the foam shouldnt be in the pipe, the twirly thing should be in the zorst, its to increase "draw"

metalmick8y wrote:The foam will be in there to stop "pooh" getting in whilst in transhite or its found its way in by accident, never seen it before.
Mike

Exactly what i thought too out it comes in morning then!!

Yes, the dangly bit as mocki also says, creates a vortex and so the heat swirls round and upward in a more even manner, hot gasses that are spiralled tend to rise more strongly and uniformly and are less suseptible to downdrafts,
Mike

Just seen your query about 'sponge' in gas inlet pipe.
It should be there. It is a filter. I removed mine when fitting my new fridge and then discovered from Dometic what it was. Should have found out before removing it. Had to buy another one.
Don

Dont see any need for a filter in the gas line, if you have impurities of that scale then I would be more worried about their source, I dont dispute dometic stating its a filter but I would not consider it a requirement.
Mike IMHO

Well if it is suposed to be there to late mines gone!!! I tryed to blow through it and couldnt so how gas is suposed to get through it god knows!!!

jamesc76 wrote:Well if it is suposed to be there to late mines gone!!! I tryed to blow through it and couldnt so how gas is suposed to get through it god knows!!!

did you turn the knobs on

I had removed the pipe! Not as daft as i might look

Must admit I could not see the point of a filter either. My old fridge ran for 15yrs+ without one and that was fine. But it was a new fridge, it came with a filter, for whatever reason, and in the unlikely event that I needed to make a claim under the terms of the guarantee I thought I had better leave it in, or rather replace the one I had taken out. It probably would work just as well without it but ??????
Don