Hope everyone is doing well!
Another week, another load of appliances. I picked up a stomach bug on Thursday that took me down for a solid 4 days (so much lost processing time). I was hoping to make some progress last weekend, but that didn't happen. I am down to about 40 appliances left on my pickup schedule so that's progress! Below are the fridges/appliances that are fixed and working/in the que!
- Samsung french door fridge: symptom: freezer working, fridge getting to about 45-48 degrees.
It turns out that one of the temperature probes was faulty (supposed to read 6.5k ohms at room temperature, reading 12k instead). On a lot of these fridges, the manufacturer has a temperature chart for their probes so a quick reading of the air temperature to the ohms reading tells you if your probes are working.
-Whirlpool standard fridge freezer unit: symptom: not cooling.
I plug it in and the freezer fan is not running. After removing the freezer back panel, I found that the fan was just a little stuck. My guess is the rotor got jostled one of the times it was being moved. A quick spin of the fan put it back where it needed to be. Fixes like this are nice because they don't cost any money in parts so that's always nice.
-Older fridge freezer: symptom: stuff is freezing in the fridge section.
A lot of my bulk buyers are property management companies. As a result, if a tenant is having issues with something, they just swap the unit out. This fridge has been running for 3 days now with the temperature staying at the perfect 38 degrees.
-**same management company that gave me the 2 above fridges** 2 stackable washer dryer units. One powers up and doesn't run and one drains after filling up. I was hoping to get into these yesterday, but they have a different 220 plug that what I have. So I guess that means off to lowe's to build another 220 plug adapter (I'm up to 4 different ones now lol). These stackables are a repair job so the customer will be taking them back as soon as they're fixed (opening up 2 additional appliance slots. YAY!!).
-kitchenaid dishwasher: Symptom: unit was completely dead.
I popped the front panel off and found that the main thermal fuse was blown. Put a new one in and the unit is working great! What I'm finding on dishwashers is people mainly toss them out if door seals fail, or they "don't clean as well as they used to". So far, I'm seeing roughly a 60% success rate on units (units that are able to be fixed and resold).
I'm starting to get a good process figured out and am learning a lot. The biggest thing I learned is selling someone a fridge (plus charging delivery), then picking up their old one while I'm there. When I get their old one back, I just fix it and resell it, swap for their old one and repeat the process. I get them for free (no core charges or anything like that) so that's a plus.
So far, I've only had one of the older side by side fridges with low
refrigerant which is a good sign because I am not ready to track down system leaks yet. When I started playing with appliances I was mainly looking to sell about 10 a month, 15 on the high end. So far, I've done right around 8-10 so that's awesome! I know I could sell and handle WAY more than that, but the warehouse has a strict "nothing left outside policy". In other words, my outdoor storage is pretty limited.
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