jadams
Junior Nomad
Posts: 63
Registered: 10-5-2010
Location: Campo Delicias / Ramona
Member Is Offline
Mood: wish I was at the campo
|
|
Sevel refrigators
Does anyone know someone or place that works on old sevel refrigators in the San Felipe area. I'm in the south camps
Thanks Jim
|
|
|
rts551
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6700
Registered: 9-5-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
Servel. For parts there was a guy in Maine.
Maine Gas Refrigerator Service
216 Sibley Road
P. O. Box 43
Burlington, Maine 04417
Phone (207) 732-4119
E-mail: gas@midmaine.com
E-mail: mainegas@myottmail.com
|
|
|
Russ
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6742
Registered: 7-4-2004
Location: Punta Chivato
Member Is Offline
|
|
For some reason gas fridges are an oddity down here. If there is an A/C guy around he may be able to help you out.
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
|
|
|
Mula
Super Nomad
Posts: 1662
Registered: 8-16-2011
Location: San Nicolas y Lopez Mateos
Member Is Offline
|
|
Fast Eddie in Burro on Concepcion, but he may have gone back to Canada by now.
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15940
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
just clean out the flue and the orifices. you should be able to find a schematic online. even if it isn't the same model they all use the same
principal.
what's the problem?
|
|
|
jadams
Junior Nomad
Posts: 63
Registered: 10-5-2010
Location: Campo Delicias / Ramona
Member Is Offline
Mood: wish I was at the campo
|
|
I can not get the tube to light, the pilot light is working, strone flame but tube doesn't stay lit
|
|
|
Mula
Super Nomad
Posts: 1662
Registered: 8-16-2011
Location: San Nicolas y Lopez Mateos
Member Is Offline
|
|
Clean it out with an air compressor - especially the long upright tube in the back which builds up carbon.
|
|
|
rts551
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6700
Registered: 9-5-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
on the old servels its called the Klixon valve. But if the pilot is staying lit that is not the problem. If the pilot stays lit, but the burner will
not turn on (does not emit gas) then check the orifice and make sure it is not plugged. DO NOT run a wire through it. soke in Alcahol and blow out
with air.
By the way, depending on your model, user/service manuals are available at Maine Gas.
|
|
|
El Camote
Senior Nomad
Posts: 514
Registered: 9-7-2003
Location: Above the clouds
Member Is Offline
Mood: y Blues
|
|
Have to second the recommendation to clean out the flue. Had the same thing happening to the moho fridge. Cover up the burner openings with aluminum
foil and bang on the side of the flue a few times. If black chunks fall out, get in there with an old toothbrush and brush the sides until you get
out as much as possible. Also, separate the burner tube from the orifice and make sure a spider hasn't built a nest in there or some other
obstruction. These are the simplest and cheapest possible fixes before you take the next step to replacing parts. 
Knowledge is good. - Emil Faber
|
|
|
rts551
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6700
Registered: 9-5-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
I replaced the Klixon valve on my old 40/50's style fridge with a retrofit model from Maine Gas. Works nice. old model you used to have to hold in
for 5 minutes. new one 30 seconds or less.
|
|
|
viabaja
Nomad
Posts: 277
Registered: 10-6-2003
Location: Georgia
Member Is Offline
|
|
Ask for Dewey Belvin from Percebu on Ch 69. He used have a business in SF and work on them. You offer enough pesos for him to check it out!!!
|
|
|
bonanza bucko
Senior Nomad
Posts: 587
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Airport Bum
|
|
I agree with the above....Servels are simply bullet proof and the only thing that goes wrong is dirt and sometimes rust on a part here and there. No
moving parts.
We had one that sat unused on a porch on the beach for 22 years. Turned it upside down, cleaning it out and it made ice in three hours.
BB:-)
|
|
|
natomas
Banned
Posts: 1
Registered: 4-6-2012
Location: o.c.
Member Is Offline
|
|
This guy sells a nice reproduction of a Servel service book on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/mendo954/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&a...
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
