BS in non cyber world - retail

[steptoe]

Have had to reacquaint self with fridge tech terms lately and been on the hunt for a new fridge. My downfall is I need a left hinged jobbie that is usually an order item only. Most fridges or their blurbs list them as RH or just an R in their product number referring to the hinge being on the right side of the fridge as you look at it.

As I go along to the various places I now ask if they have any left hinged in stock.
I have seen shrugged shoulders and then recovery from one sales guy, been selling fridges for 20 years , tells me the in stock ones are called right handed because most people open the fridge with their right hand I felt I had to stick a hand up for my left handed friends asking if they'd feel offended. Wouldn't it be because the hinge is on the right hand side as you look at it I ask.
Ah, oh, yeah.

Good, cause i want one wioth the hinge on the left, and wil still likely open it with my right hand. My left handed friend and relatives can do what they like !

I struck the same from a guy at another place I knew to nasty to his staff, was staying back after his knock off (and no overtime - I asked ) He too had trouble working out what the right handed bit actually referred to and wehter the one I wanted would actually be a left hinged unit !!!

[TOONGA]

westinghouse is your best bet, we have one that has a right hinge but I know for a fact that you can unbolt the bottom hinge and with a small amount of trickery change the hinge to the left side of the door.

this is the style http://www.appliancesonline.com.au/240l ... wrm2400wc/

it doesn't have a freezer which is why it is so easy to swap the door

TOONGA

[El_Freddo]

I thought all new fridges were built so that the hinges can be swapped right to left and vice versa.

I've swapped our bar fridge's hinges over to the other side and our main fridge has all the little cover plates to hide the holes that allow you to swap the hinge over to the other side Best talk to the tech service of the joint.

And when you're in the industry spinning BS and getting away with it is always fun - I guess that goes for any industry really

Cheers

Bennie

[Gannon]

I have a 7 year old Fisher n Paykel and it has its hinges on the left, but on the right are plastic plugs that cover screw holes to facilitate swapping the hinge to the right hand side.

I wish they still made fridges with butter warmers

[steptoe]

my current FandP is 14 and a bit and back then they made them ambidextrous but not now! Think it was Westinghouse that one needs to buy the conversion kit for 89 bucks and do it yourself !

There is a few 'new' gasses coming in too - R600a goes by another name, another name suggests butane, maybe even another refridgerant with warnings if it leaks it is flammable, think might stick with F&P, R134a and go the freezer up top this time. Always had to bend to see in the bottom freezer, whereas when fridge has bottom can see through shelves from above AND the top freezers have half a star better than bottom freezers!

A trick one guy shared was a reset of fridge. Rather a defrost over 24hrs with nothing in it. I may have a frozen gas blockage causing my problems - lower half of fridge reaching minus 2C while top half of it 3 and 4C