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When we moved into our current house, there was a full-size freezer that was left in the cellar. It has worked well for us over the years.
Recently, we began having problems with water leaking into the cellar during and after anything but the lightest of rains. To make a long story short, the outlet that the freezer was plugged into had been damaged by the water and no longer works. When that happened, we unplugged the freezer and stopped using it.
In an effort to clean up and reclaim the cellar, we decided to move the freezer into our old garage/play room. In that way, we could start using the freezer again.
However, there were a couple of complications. First, the freezer would not easily fit through two doorways. By measuring the freezer and the doorways, it was concluded that the first doorway could be passed if the handle on the door to the freezer could be removed. The second doorway could be passed if the handle on the door to the freezer were removed and the door to the old garage were removed.
But there was no obvious way to remove the handle to the freezer. So we removed the door to the freezer. This was accomplished by removing two small screws that held the top door hinge in place. It was then easy to remove the door by lifting it off of the bottom pivot.
Little did we know, but there were three wires that went through the bottom hinge into the door. But more on that latter.
With the door of the freezer off, we were able to get the freezer through the first doorway. By taking the door to the old garage off of its hinges, we were able to get the freezer through the second doorway and into its new location. So far so good.
Now to reassemble the door. The main part of the freezer had three wires sticking out of the pivot for the hinge. But there were only two wires hanging out of the bottom of the door and no easy way to find the third wire which was still stuck somewhere up inside the door.
We decided to hook up the two wires that we could see -- one green and one white. We left the black wire unattached. Note that due to little slack in the wires, this had to be done while holding the door just over the bottom hinge. Definitely a two person job. After carefully feeding the wires up into the door, we were able to place the door back on the bottom pivot.
The top hinge was easy to reassemble.
After cleaning the freezer, we plugged it in and set the cooling indicator to "3". We placed a thermometer in the freezer. After about 90 minutes, the temperature was in the low 20s.
We've since set the cooling on "2", slightly warmer than we initially had it set.
We still don't know what the wires to the door were for. The freezer seems to be working fine without the black wire attached.
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