Xantus954
Well-Known Member
OK heres my situation and I'm hoping someone that knows a little more about these things can give me some advice.
I have an older BM23, with the fake wood grain paneling on the outside. I bought it almost 2 years ago off craigslist. When I got it home and plugged it in, I noticed it was leaking. So at the time I rigged the drip pan, which had rusted through with some foil, and it has been working since then. It started to leak again recently, and it was rust stained water that was dripping over everything. This was dripping on my regualtor and has stained one of the gauges. So I decided my rig fix needed to become a permanant fix.
This week I shut the kegerator off, removed the drip tray. Which meant disconnecting the two wires from the thermostat switch and at the time I thought I had to cut a solid core copper wire that I think goes to the thermostat. turns out I didn't, but I had already cut the wire. I sprayed the drain pan with that rubber in a can stuff to seal up all the holes. Let it dry for a few days reconnected the wires and put it back together. Now it turns on but doesn't get cold at all. I've removed the drain pan reconnected wires, switched wires on the thermostat connection thinking I may have reversed them. Cleaned the solid core wire and reconnected it.
So now I'm thinking I may have broken something possibly the thermostat but don't know what else to check. How do I tell if the compressor is running? What else can I check?
Any advice here is appreciated as I made a few calls and the one place I did get ahold of that would come look was a commercial refrigeration repair place and wanted 150 bucks just to come out and look at it. I love the kegerator but that's about what I paid for it so that's a no go.
I have an older BM23, with the fake wood grain paneling on the outside. I bought it almost 2 years ago off craigslist. When I got it home and plugged it in, I noticed it was leaking. So at the time I rigged the drip pan, which had rusted through with some foil, and it has been working since then. It started to leak again recently, and it was rust stained water that was dripping over everything. This was dripping on my regualtor and has stained one of the gauges. So I decided my rig fix needed to become a permanant fix.
This week I shut the kegerator off, removed the drip tray. Which meant disconnecting the two wires from the thermostat switch and at the time I thought I had to cut a solid core copper wire that I think goes to the thermostat. turns out I didn't, but I had already cut the wire. I sprayed the drain pan with that rubber in a can stuff to seal up all the holes. Let it dry for a few days reconnected the wires and put it back together. Now it turns on but doesn't get cold at all. I've removed the drain pan reconnected wires, switched wires on the thermostat connection thinking I may have reversed them. Cleaned the solid core wire and reconnected it.
So now I'm thinking I may have broken something possibly the thermostat but don't know what else to check. How do I tell if the compressor is running? What else can I check?
Any advice here is appreciated as I made a few calls and the one place I did get ahold of that would come look was a commercial refrigeration repair place and wanted 150 bucks just to come out and look at it. I love the kegerator but that's about what I paid for it so that's a no go.
