 Hey everybody, it's Robin with creativity RV and I'm doing a special Wednesday video this week because on Sunday I showed you guys that I was staying at an RV park where I took my fifth wheel out of storage because I was going to have To be there for a couple of months to take care of a few things But right away as soon as I opened it up my refrigerator broke. It is unreal How astronomically expensive this one part to fix my refrigerator was today I'm going to tell you all about it and show you the repair in case it happens to you But the real reason that I wanted to do this video is to tell you guys about a $40 gadget that I found through these repairs that has already saved me a ton of money in RV refrigerator fuel and Food I wish that I had had it for the last five years I would have lost a lot less money because you know how persnickety RV refrigerators can be so now I'm going to take it back to the RV park When I first got home to the fifth wheel and you know set it up and put the slides out and turned the refrigerator on It was making kind of a weird noise, but I thought okay. Well, it's just been sitting for a long time It's just getting the propane in there. It's you know getting used to running the next day or the day after that I opened it up and everything was warm I went outside and all the ammonia had leaked out all over the ground now originally I was hoping it was cheap little thing. Well, not this time honey. You're gonna go how much? Was it to find the part that I needed to fix this big refrigerator? I'll tell you it was the cooling unit on this Norco fridge and to replace it new was $2,500 without shipping and without my repair guy putting it in I was not expecting that that blew my mind So luckily my repair guy who's gonna be here soon Had a hookup with a company that does refurbished cooling units So for that with the shipping was 1400 and then of course I have to pay him to install it And I'm lucky I have him and I'm lucky that he had that hookup, but my god. Why are these parts so expensive? I thought that was just nuts and it's refurbished. It's got a warranty for two years So hopefully it doesn't go out again now I think I've been without a fridge for nine days That's how long it took to get the part and I've been living out of this little cooler I'm really far from a grocery store here So I had some healthy food delivered and that has now gone bad twice I'm hoping this bunch of food stays cold long enough that we can get this part in I'm sick of eating stale crackers that were in the back of the cupboard I tell you cannot wait to get this fridge installed. Hi guys, so we're just gonna take the fridge out We've got some protective Moving blankets here. We'll set it on there. So it doesn't cut the linoleum. It's really easy to cut that flooring You know careful, and then we'll just bring it right over here. We've got a mat leg down I've never seen woman say hi Wayne. Hi. Good afternoon. This is the best repair guy in the whole world Wayne Colorado if you need him, I'll put his information below man. We appreciate the help Here comes the muscle That yellow stuff back in the corner is how, you know, there's the cooling unit, right? Big boy Get out of there No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Propane right over your hand Wayne is the propane off. It's so shiny and new Your refrigerator should be good to go after all of this work. I hope so. It's expensive Thank you, Paul This is a tube of thermal Mastic you have to apply this to the back of the cooling unit and then around the inside to seal it or else It will not cool period if you do not put this on the fridge will never work Did you say that I really didn't have any? You didn't have very much from the factory. So could that have been why it failed? And I'll tell you guys right after Wayne did the repairs I didn't think they were working because he loaned me this gizmo off of his own refrigerator That monitors the temperature inside the fridge and it kept creeping up over 40 no matter what I did So it turns out when we push the fridge back into place It was probably just a little bit off and the seal on the refrigerator wasn't holding So he did this cool little trick by putting a washer underneath the refrigerator door and now it stays closed Just fine and the temperatures are great. That's how I discovered this monitor It looks like this and it comes with two of these sensors I just got this out of my own airstream freezer RV refrigerators will vary in temperature I find about 10 degrees one way or the other and that's why a lot of times you go to get something out of your freezer And it looks like this because all day long It's beginning too hot too cold too hot too cold now that I have this monitor All I have to do is look at the one that I have that's on my wall here in the airstream And if it's getting too hot inside I make it colder and if it's getting too cold I make it hotter and that way it's just about 36 all the time and I'm not wasting my propane Heating a refrigerator that's already 31 degrees now I've had my gizmo for about two weeks and since then my food's been absolutely perfect I wish that I had known about this five years ago I can't tell you how much food I've lost over these years because RV refrigerators Suck so do yourself a favor get one of these gizmos. I'll put the link for it down below I'll see you guys next sunday with an all new video until then everybody out there have happy travels and be free