Interior glaciation
Jun. 2nd, 2007 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_trannySo here in ye olde bedroom, we have one of those mini-fridges. It has one of those miniscule freezers on it, the old fashioned kind that ice up and have to be defrosted occasionally. The fridge has been here for 2 or 3 years, and it's never been defrosted. I decided it kind of needed to be done when it was getting so heavy it was starting to try to encase the top of a ketchup bottle. Pictures of my pet glacier below.
Sorry for the crappy quality. I took them with my cell phone. And what you can't see, and it didn't occur to me to take a picture of until it was too late, was how much ice was in the freezer itself. The enire right side of the freezer area (the space behind that little white flap) was a solid block of ice, sloping gently downwards to the left. All told it took about 4 hours to melt/chisel that ice mass out of there. I pulled everything out, moved the top rack up, and put a large bowl of hot water on the top rack. While that was heating things up from below (and being refilled every 20 minutes or so), I attacked the iceberg with a spray bottle full of hot water and a smaller bowl of hot water up in the freezer itself. At the end the majority of it came off in two massive blocks I had to stick in the bathroom sink to melt.
It's amazing how much more fits in there when the entire right side isn't occupied by the remnants of the last ice age.
Sorry for the crappy quality. I took them with my cell phone. And what you can't see, and it didn't occur to me to take a picture of until it was too late, was how much ice was in the freezer itself. The enire right side of the freezer area (the space behind that little white flap) was a solid block of ice, sloping gently downwards to the left. All told it took about 4 hours to melt/chisel that ice mass out of there. I pulled everything out, moved the top rack up, and put a large bowl of hot water on the top rack. While that was heating things up from below (and being refilled every 20 minutes or so), I attacked the iceberg with a spray bottle full of hot water and a smaller bowl of hot water up in the freezer itself. At the end the majority of it came off in two massive blocks I had to stick in the bathroom sink to melt.
It's amazing how much more fits in there when the entire right side isn't occupied by the remnants of the last ice age.
