From everything I've read if you've ruptured one of the coolant lines it is more expensive to repair and refill the freon than it would be to buy a new freezer. I am by no means an expert or have any experience trying to refill freon. But that's what I've read in several different posts on here. Hopefully someone with more practical experience can give you a more helpful solution.
Good luck.
Maxkling said:That's not fully true. It depends on the freezer. An appliance repair shop can easily fix it, and as along as the freezer is worth the price of R22 to fill it then your fine. That will be the major expense. I would guess a moderately sized freezer I'd expect to pay 80 to 100 after all said and done (with no major component damage). So if its a 400$ freezer its worth it.
Now if its just a dorm fridge no, it would not be worth it.
If you tell us what happened we might off some more help.
That's not fully true either, if the freezer is filled with R134 it is relatively cheap, it is however hard to do though, it is such a small amount that by the time it sucks it in its over filled.
A buddy of mine was building a keezer and hit a line and after repairing it I tried filling it and I could not get it to work again. I do agree that it is not worth it unless you can get it done cheap enough.
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