[Pil-pc-oceania] de-gassing fridges

[petra.kahle at haztech.com.au]

you need gas collecting equipment, somebody who works with fridges should
know where to get one and how to use it. Petra.

ps somewhere the "r" in "permaculture discussion list" got dropped a while
ago, I wonder whether it's coming back now.

> how is the gas usually collected from fridges?
>
> dave
>
>
> On 14/10/2007, petra.kahle at haztech.com.au <petra.kahle at haztech.com.au>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pennny and All,
>>
>> don't de-gas fridges without catching the gas propperly, Please,
>> the old ones have those bad chloro-flouro- carbons that wreck the ozone
>> layer in them.
>> That is if the gas is still in them.
>>
>> cheers, Petra.
>>
>>
>> > ABC TV Gardening Australia Sat 13/10.
>> > Josh and the WA school garden.
>> >  Great idea which I haven't seen before is  to use old fridges as worm
>> > farms.  If anyone didn't see:
>> >  remove seals so they are no longer airtight, remove shelves,
>> compressors
>> > and degas, make a hole in the back of the fridge [which becomes the
>> bottom
>> > of the worm farm], put a pipe through for the worm wee to run through
>> into
>> > a
>> > container below, set on blocks  with back of the fridge as the bottom
>> and
>> > the door lifts up as the lid.  Then just follow worm farm
>> procedures.  He
>> > used a deep layer of compost, then the worms, then shredded wet
>> newspaper,
>> > then food scraps.
>>
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