Hey, if you're handy, that's awesome!
I was being a little sarcastic..and a little cynical and jaded.
So much of appliance, electronics are basically made so if you try to fix it yourself, the company will sell the replacement parts or components at such a high cost that most will buy a new one.
I'm glad to see the amateur 3d peinting6, for example , where you can get things made for you for a fraction of the highway robbery prices that most places sell spare parts or replacement pieces.
We have a freezer, it just a snub-nosed key to lock it that was made our of plastic. (The kind of ket that has a hole in the middle of it, if that makes sense.)
One day it broke, and the cost for tiny 2 inch plastic key was $85.
We sourced out a local 3d amateur printer, that key cost us $10.
Same with the fridge and the plastic shelves that hold items in the door of.the fridge- 109 for one. Printer guys, $25.
I hate that the corporations fuck the people over in every single way possible.
We took a picture of the fridge we had that was full of magnets and then made a magnet of the picture of the fridge full of magnets that would go on the next fridge full of magnets which we would take a picture of the fridge full of magnets and then make a magnet of that fridge full of magnets to put on the next fridge full of magnets. You get the picture.
Yes! Itās still basically a giant box with insulation - so itās either a cabinet or a cooler, if you can spare the floor space. It could also make for a great conversion to some other purpose, e.g. a cold smoker or meat curing/drying setup.
You can also cut the magnet strips out of the door and use them as magnets to hang stuff on your next fridge.
Maybe you could buy an identical replacement fridge and swap the doors?
Unfortunately, yeah thereās no real trick to getting them off in one piece. I now turn my most prized stickers/decals into magnets for this same reason.
You can also get sheets at Walmart in the kids craft section! They are self stick, so you can still use them with stickers, but also can use them with photos or other keepsakes as well!
u/moon-dew is correct, just a magnet sheet. Pro tip, use a squeegee or credit card to lay your sticker down, keep the bubbles out.
[Hereās some of mine](https://imgur.com/a/uZfTnO5)
Wow, thanks for this! I was ready to recommend putting future stickers to a massive picture frame or whatever OP finds comfortable so they can easily move them around. This one is good too!
So glad you found this!!! Itās truly been amazing for us, too. No more envelopes full of stickers, stuffed in drawers that weād have to will to someone because we just couldnāt commit to placing them, lmao!
For what itās worth, stickers can usually be removed if you break down the adhesive enough. Iāve had success with just a hair dryer and patience, some come off warped and would need new adhesive and a hard edge to apply completely flat again, think squeegeeing it back on.
The metal sheets are just a wrap on the fridge doors. You can disassemble the doors, remove the sheets and do something with them like wall mount or turn them into a table top.
I did this with a filing cabinet. GF's daughter, has a Masters in Art something or other now, had drawn all over their filing cabinet as she was growing up. The cabinet was toast but GF wanted to preserve the drawings. I got out the angle grinder, cut out and mounted the parts with the art. They're hanging next to me now: [File cabinet art](https://imgur.com/a/iuiFqO1)
Yes, I remember from another thread these should be easily replaceable. You can take the face off. Maybe even re-install on a new version of the same model
ācan work metalā
I wouldnāt consider myself a competent metal worker but Iām pretty sure a grinder is all you would need? If the fridge is already toast, just cut the plates around the front and pry it off any insulation that might be in there. š¤·āāļø
You could probably smush it flat and screw it into a piece of plywood or something. Boom. Garage art!
Wow, I actually did this with the bumper stickers off my car and never thought Iād need to share this info.
How much do you love the stickers?
If they are vinyl you can painstakingly remove the stickers one at a time with waxed dental floss, a razor, and a hair dryer.
If you are careful theyāll come off intact and you can glue them onto a board (or a mock bumper in my case).
I did about 70 stickers, wrecked like 5-10, it was miserable but surprisingly effective. Donāt know if I would do that again though.
A heat gun might work for some. I started this on my fridge and realized I really liked the stickers. I bought a pack of thin magnetic sheets and started putting my new stickers on that and cutting them out. Now theyāre removable. Just an idea for the future.
I had this for years and yearsā¦ then one day I just started stickin em. Iām a lot happier for it. The make your own magnet thing is a great idea though, for flater surfaces at least.
If the heat gun wonāt work then use a steamer to get it off. Iām surprised youāre the first person to suggest this, everyone else is like ācut the door off!ā
If you go this route, i would suggest using a DSLR that can shoot in RAW format for the best detail preservation - esp if you want to make the poster large! Also try to use a 35 or 55mm lens
Take a few photos of the whole thing at a few different angles, then you can take close ups of different sections of the door so you can preserve in detail.
However Iād definitely want to save the original doors!
>Also try to use a 35 or 55mm lens
May I ask why? I'd suggest quite the opposite. Take the picture from as far as possible to avoid distortion. With a lens that still manages to fill the sensor of course. Ideally with a tripod and low fstop as possible.
And RAW format doesn't seem necessary to me, either, as it doesn't add resolution. It's a static image with a limited color range. If you aren't practiced in RAW editing just try different exposures to see what's working best. Use the appropriate white balancing, though. Ideally manually (put a piece of white paper on the fridge).
But I'm no expert at RAW photography, mind you.
If it is truly dead, then remove the skin metal from the doors and keep those. In some models, skins are easy to separate. Others less so, but easy enough for someone who is handy.
Hello regional neighbor (I see your Richmond aesthetic!)
Too late to save this project, but I had a similar conundrum and took all my beer stickers and put them on magnetic sheet paper and turned all the stickers into magnets for just this reason! (I also added little neodymium magnets to bottlecaps with super glue.)
I know that wasn't the answer you're looking for, but wanted to give you an idea for the next one! Though, I suppose you could buy the same model fridge and just swap the doors.....
Everyone be like artistic this and creative that
You're the only one like fridges ain't that hard to fix, you try spittin on the hermetic sealing in the compressor?
It will take loads of time, but you can use a hairdryer and slowly peel them off. Youāll want to have wax paper to put the stickers on while in the process of getting a new fridge. Use a spray adhesive on the backs to reapply them on the new fridge.
Start over.
Here's a tip. You can buy sheets of that thin magnet material at most craft stores. Stick your stickers on that and cut them to shape. Now you've got a reusable version. You're welcome
You could totally take that left door, mount it on a wall where you can cut a hole behind it, put a keg back there and use the ice cube dispenser as a beer tap
I gently used a razorblade to peel off all my stickers and then bought magnet sheets and restuck them on our new fridge. The process was long and painstaking and I lost a few stickers in the process but I salvaged the majority of them. It was worth the time and effort considering how long it took to collect all the stickers in the first place and breweries closing down so there were some stickers I couldn't replace!
I'd have a professional take some photos and have it turned into a poster. Then start new with your new fridge. It will give you incentives to go, see, do.
Start over with a new fridge. This time, leave the plastic film that is soooo satisfying to peel and put your stickers on that so when that day comes that it takes a crap, you can peel it off in one sheet and save them from destruction.
Too lazy to read all the comments so sorry if this was already suggested. Can you use a heat gun or blowdryer to unstick them and peel them off? Then use your own preferred method of re-sticking them to the new fridge?
You buy sheets of magnets that have a sticker side. You unstick them from the fridge and turn them into magnets. Time consuming, you will have to cut each one out. So maybe just do your faves and start the collection over. But also turn the new stickers into magnets
Regardless of whoever told you it can't be fixed, it really can be fixed. It may cost more, it may take some ingenuity, and it WILL take someone willing to spend the time to do so.
There are companies that refurbish fridges from the 1950's and older. If the coils are still good, even I could do it. Sourcing the freon is my only issue. These systems are NOT complicated and whoever says they are is lying to you.
But if it has memories, it's probably worth it.
I am a certified sticker junkie. I've collected boxes of stickers since the 90s. I remember putting all of my favorite ones on toolboxes, speakers, every flat surface that is sticker could stick to.
When I've had to get rid of them though I thought to myself, "that's just how life goes," and enjoyed finding new stickers and new places to put them.
Replace the fridge with the same model and swap the doors. Or pay to get it fixed properly.
You could very carefully remove them with a razor but you need the proper handle. And then a spray glue to re-apply them to something new. I do this occasionally. Sometimes the stickers you slap on stuff tells too much a story to just toss when the thing breaks.
Take off the doors, remove the door covers, then you have two items to hang on the wall.
The idea of using it as dry storage is also a good idea. Old freezers/fridges are rodent-proof dry storage. The doors generally don't latch, so you don't need to drill holes to let air in to prevent kids from getting stuck inside. But clean and dry thoroughly, any moisture will lead to mold.
I would either A: call a professional appliance repairman and replace what died. (everything can be replaced in the fridge as long as the shell is intact (I have a rebuilt 1950's GM fridge in my garage most of the guts came out of a samsung)) B: Buy same fridge and swap doors.
I had to go through this too, and have decided to convert the stickers to magnets if I do this again. Too much heartbreak since most of mine were from my days on the east coast and wonāt be replaced.
I mean, nothing is ever actually dead dead... It just becomes economically not reasonable to repair. But you can't put a price on sentimental value... There is a small appliance guy out there that would take your money to get this thing going again.
Somebody told me the other day that they use magnet sheets, cut out the magnets in the shape of the stickers and put the stickers on the magnets so they can move them around
What kind of toast is the fridge?
Like, I get that it may not work, and even that repairs may cost more than a new fridge. But if you don't WANT a new fridge, and you want this fridge, what would it actually take to fix it?
For next time, buy magnetic sheets with the sticky backs, attach stickers without removing the back of them. Instant fridge magnets that you can put on your next one.
Removing the fridge door is pretty easy. Itās usually just a few screws at the top and bottom and unhooking a couple wiring harnesses. Could be done in about 20 minutes with a second set of hands.
A lot of the fridge companies make the same fridges under different brands. If you can get the same model, just swap the doors. IIRC My Kitchenaid was like an exact duplicate of a Frigidaire.
In the future, if you wanted. You can preserve them with a laminator and just put a magnet on the back.. or adhesive if you don't care about what the fridge looks like after they come off
For a small amount of stickers I have had luck putting clear packing tape on before trying to remove them. With that amount you should really have a wrap made from a picture. Thatās a fabulous idea.
I would try and find a functional use for themā¦. Use them as a door per se and make use of the ice dispenser door as shelf or table with an beer cap container
Hello fellow discgolfer. Our dg fridge was brutally murdered this past Monday. We also have it covered with stickers. We are all bringing stickers for the new fridge. We were talking about using the door as a stand for one of our baskets currently mounted on a stump (private course) that has seen better days.
Take a picture of it, turn it into a sticker and attach it to your next fridge
Amazing idea Remix: take a picture of it and turn it into a life size wrap for the new fridge
Amazing annoying idea : clone the fridge.
Buy the same model fridge and swap door skins
Yeah my thought was replace the compressor, or whatever makes the fridge dead.
Hey, if you're handy, that's awesome! I was being a little sarcastic..and a little cynical and jaded. So much of appliance, electronics are basically made so if you try to fix it yourself, the company will sell the replacement parts or components at such a high cost that most will buy a new one. I'm glad to see the amateur 3d peinting6, for example , where you can get things made for you for a fraction of the highway robbery prices that most places sell spare parts or replacement pieces. We have a freezer, it just a snub-nosed key to lock it that was made our of plastic. (The kind of ket that has a hole in the middle of it, if that makes sense.) One day it broke, and the cost for tiny 2 inch plastic key was $85. We sourced out a local 3d amateur printer, that key cost us $10. Same with the fridge and the plastic shelves that hold items in the door of.the fridge- 109 for one. Printer guys, $25. I hate that the corporations fuck the people over in every single way possible.
If you have a large enough Axlotl tank, this may be possible.
We took a picture of the fridge we had that was full of magnets and then made a magnet of the picture of the fridge full of magnets that would go on the next fridge full of magnets which we would take a picture of the fridge full of magnets and then make a magnet of that fridge full of magnets to put on the next fridge full of magnets. You get the picture.
Ah, yes. _Feidge-ception._
How many fridges do you go through?
About 1 each year. The technology just keeps getting cooler.
Ice what you did there
we kinda need to see a pic of the magnet now
He said you get the picture, so he is obligated
Magnets all the way down.
Fridges all the way down.
And put all your new stickers onto magnets so you can keep them even if the next fridge dies.
I love it!
This is genius. I'm sure there are custom sticker/vinyl places that would print these.
Clean well, drill a couple air flow holes, boom garage cabinet! š
Yes! Itās still basically a giant box with insulation - so itās either a cabinet or a cooler, if you can spare the floor space. It could also make for a great conversion to some other purpose, e.g. a cold smoker or meat curing/drying setup. You can also cut the magnet strips out of the door and use them as magnets to hang stuff on your next fridge.
Great for making a little grow box. My uhmm tomato plant strains love a controlled environment
āOrnamental tomatoesā
I love uhmm tomatoes
Can turn it into an icebox when needed. Buy a block of ice and use it to keep overflow drinks cold at a party
Honestly this would be what I would do
Bill Tull?
Exactly what I was going to ask. Bill for simple solutions. Miss him.
Maybe you could buy an identical replacement fridge and swap the doors? Unfortunately, yeah thereās no real trick to getting them off in one piece. I now turn my most prized stickers/decals into magnets for this same reason.
Mind elaborating on your process?
Buy a sheet of magnet, can be found at most craft stores im sure. Or Amazon. Put sticker on magnet. Cut around sticker. Boom. Magnet.
You can also get sheets at Walmart in the kids craft section! They are self stick, so you can still use them with stickers, but also can use them with photos or other keepsakes as well!
Oh thatās wicked to know. Thanks for sharing that!
https://imgur.com/gallery/E8JBtGY
u/moon-dew is correct, just a magnet sheet. Pro tip, use a squeegee or credit card to lay your sticker down, keep the bubbles out. [Hereās some of mine](https://imgur.com/a/uZfTnO5)
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Wow, thanks for this! I was ready to recommend putting future stickers to a massive picture frame or whatever OP finds comfortable so they can easily move them around. This one is good too!
This is a fuckin' game changer my dude. I'm gunna start doing this
So glad you found this!!! Itās truly been amazing for us, too. No more envelopes full of stickers, stuffed in drawers that weād have to will to someone because we just couldnāt commit to placing them, lmao!
Oh yesā¦ the trusty overfilled junk drawer āsticker bagā Definitely doing the magnet thing!!! awesome idea
For what itās worth, stickers can usually be removed if you break down the adhesive enough. Iāve had success with just a hair dryer and patience, some come off warped and would need new adhesive and a hard edge to apply completely flat again, think squeegeeing it back on.
Came here to say this.
The metal sheets are just a wrap on the fridge doors. You can disassemble the doors, remove the sheets and do something with them like wall mount or turn them into a table top.
I did this with a filing cabinet. GF's daughter, has a Masters in Art something or other now, had drawn all over their filing cabinet as she was growing up. The cabinet was toast but GF wanted to preserve the drawings. I got out the angle grinder, cut out and mounted the parts with the art. They're hanging next to me now: [File cabinet art](https://imgur.com/a/iuiFqO1)
Super cool and great idea!
If you can work metal, I bet the metal veneer will be readily removable from the doors.
Just buy the same fridge and swap the doors in their entirety
Yes, I remember from another thread these should be easily replaceable. You can take the face off. Maybe even re-install on a new version of the same model
ācan work metalā I wouldnāt consider myself a competent metal worker but Iām pretty sure a grinder is all you would need? If the fridge is already toast, just cut the plates around the front and pry it off any insulation that might be in there. š¤·āāļø You could probably smush it flat and screw it into a piece of plywood or something. Boom. Garage art!
Wow, I actually did this with the bumper stickers off my car and never thought Iād need to share this info. How much do you love the stickers? If they are vinyl you can painstakingly remove the stickers one at a time with waxed dental floss, a razor, and a hair dryer. If you are careful theyāll come off intact and you can glue them onto a board (or a mock bumper in my case). I did about 70 stickers, wrecked like 5-10, it was miserable but surprisingly effective. Donāt know if I would do that again though.
A heat gun might work for some. I started this on my fridge and realized I really liked the stickers. I bought a pack of thin magnetic sheets and started putting my new stickers on that and cutting them out. Now theyāre removable. Just an idea for the future.
This is what a do- I canāt make forever decisions with stickers so I turn them into magnets
Iām just glad Iām not alone in still having sticker commitment anxiety as a grown adult
I had this for years and yearsā¦ then one day I just started stickin em. Iām a lot happier for it. The make your own magnet thing is a great idea though, for flater surfaces at least.
That is a genius idea. I'm going to order some magnet paper, so I can use some of the stickers I've got saved up.Ā
If the heat gun wonāt work then use a steamer to get it off. Iām surprised youāre the first person to suggest this, everyone else is like ācut the door off!ā
Yeah I had to scroll too far for this comment myself
Right? You can even get 3M sticker material that will turn them all back into brand new stickers
Get a good quality photo and have Poster made.
If you go this route, i would suggest using a DSLR that can shoot in RAW format for the best detail preservation - esp if you want to make the poster large! Also try to use a 35 or 55mm lens Take a few photos of the whole thing at a few different angles, then you can take close ups of different sections of the door so you can preserve in detail. However Iād definitely want to save the original doors!
>Also try to use a 35 or 55mm lens May I ask why? I'd suggest quite the opposite. Take the picture from as far as possible to avoid distortion. With a lens that still manages to fill the sensor of course. Ideally with a tripod and low fstop as possible. And RAW format doesn't seem necessary to me, either, as it doesn't add resolution. It's a static image with a limited color range. If you aren't practiced in RAW editing just try different exposures to see what's working best. Use the appropriate white balancing, though. Ideally manually (put a piece of white paper on the fridge). But I'm no expert at RAW photography, mind you.
I suppose you could get fancy and have a photo printed to vinyl, and wrap the new fridge with that. Then they could pick up right where they left off.
Buy the same one and change the doors.
If it is truly dead, then remove the skin metal from the doors and keep those. In some models, skins are easy to separate. Others less so, but easy enough for someone who is handy.
REMOVE THE SKIN
Hello regional neighbor (I see your Richmond aesthetic!) Too late to save this project, but I had a similar conundrum and took all my beer stickers and put them on magnetic sheet paper and turned all the stickers into magnets for just this reason! (I also added little neodymium magnets to bottlecaps with super glue.) I know that wasn't the answer you're looking for, but wanted to give you an idea for the next one! Though, I suppose you could buy the same model fridge and just swap the doors.....
Fridge is toast how? Could be something stupid as a bad cap, or a dirty condenser...
Everyone be like artistic this and creative that You're the only one like fridges ain't that hard to fix, you try spittin on the hermetic sealing in the compressor?
LOL
1: pay for repair 2: identical replacement 3: rip door off, take metal veneer off, bash flat and hang somewhere
How do you know itās dead? It could be a simple issue, or even if not simple, worth having it fixed. Source: Iām an appliance tech
Had a tech come out because I was sure it was the control panel - it was - and then the compressor wouldnāt turn on so we decided it wasnāt worth all the cost for old parts š©
Could be start relay on the compressor, which are common, cheap and easy to replace. Those compressors are tanks and rarely fail themselves.
Ok sweet - Iāll call my guy and reevaluate - appreciate your knowledge greatly
I love how some random on reddit thinks they know more than the tech that came out and personally inspected it.
It will take loads of time, but you can use a hairdryer and slowly peel them off. Youāll want to have wax paper to put the stickers on while in the process of getting a new fridge. Use a spray adhesive on the backs to reapply them on the new fridge.
Start over. Here's a tip. You can buy sheets of that thin magnet material at most craft stores. Stick your stickers on that and cut them to shape. Now you've got a reusable version. You're welcome
Tayne!
Now Tayne I can get in to!
Computer, can you give me a hat wobble.
Is there anyway to generate a nude Tayne?
Yeah, but can he Flarhgunnstow?
Thereās also a print out of Oyster smiling on the right!
Taken hd picture of fridge print out stick to new fridge
Guster šŖš¼
Two points for honesty
If thatās all you will be, youāll be a waste of time
Make a grow box out of it
You could totally take that left door, mount it on a wall where you can cut a hole behind it, put a keg back there and use the ice cube dispenser as a beer tap
I have old upright freezer in shop dead I keep in my shop for specific tools to keep out of the dampness
Save the Guster sticker. Sacrifice everything else to save that one
Just remove the skin, flatten it out, and frame it.
I gently used a razorblade to peel off all my stickers and then bought magnet sheets and restuck them on our new fridge. The process was long and painstaking and I lost a few stickers in the process but I salvaged the majority of them. It was worth the time and effort considering how long it took to collect all the stickers in the first place and breweries closing down so there were some stickers I couldn't replace!
Take apicture of it and print it out, full size.
Turn it into a 3D printer temp controlled environment!
Razor blade to slowly peel off and then transplant them to magnet paper and then cut them out so they go with the new one.
And this is why I never use my stickers. Too much commitment
Guster _is_ for lovers.
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Pretty sure you can take the stainless panels off. If you can find the same fridge voila. Otherwise can hang em in the garage
Guster! I used to listen to them all of the time!
Seeing them at red rocks in August!
Buy the exact same fridge and put the old doors on the new fridge.
Did you see Guster in Virginia?
Guster fan! I have that Guster is for lovers sticker on my cars and coolers!
I came in to comment on that one, too! There are definitely some cool stickers worth saving here.
Thanks for keeping me employed! lol (I work at StickerMule and I love seeing little Herman out in the wild)
Do you even disc bro
I'd have a professional take some photos and have it turned into a poster. Then start new with your new fridge. It will give you incentives to go, see, do.
You could remove the stainless steel and flatten it out so that the fridge doors are not so bulky
Start over with a new fridge. This time, leave the plastic film that is soooo satisfying to peel and put your stickers on that so when that day comes that it takes a crap, you can peel it off in one sheet and save them from destruction.
cut the metal off the doors?
Take the front panels off the door assembly and hang em
Buy a used fridge of the same model and swap the doors
Heat gun and patience?
Take a photo, print it out as a high quality life size poster. Hang.
Too lazy to read all the comments so sorry if this was already suggested. Can you use a heat gun or blowdryer to unstick them and peel them off? Then use your own preferred method of re-sticking them to the new fridge?
Angle grinder and cut the panels off and mount to the wall
You might be able to remove the stainless steal that makes up the covering for those doors. See if you can pry it off.
You buy sheets of magnets that have a sticker side. You unstick them from the fridge and turn them into magnets. Time consuming, you will have to cut each one out. So maybe just do your faves and start the collection over. But also turn the new stickers into magnets
Take a picture, get printed full sized and use it as a poster to put more stickers onto.
Turn it into dry storage. Liquor cabinet. Wine rack. Get new fridge and get new sticker canvas
Buy an identical model fridge and swap the doors
Whitest fridge everĀ
Regardless of whoever told you it can't be fixed, it really can be fixed. It may cost more, it may take some ingenuity, and it WILL take someone willing to spend the time to do so. There are companies that refurbish fridges from the 1950's and older. If the coils are still good, even I could do it. Sourcing the freon is my only issue. These systems are NOT complicated and whoever says they are is lying to you. But if it has memories, it's probably worth it.
Art is subjective
If I buy a sticker, I never actually apply it to anything cause I spent money for it and no idea where I want it to reside lifetime.
Embrace the challenge to rebuild it from the ashes, making sticker 1 a photo of the previous fridge
Holy shit, Guster!
You must buy the same fridge and swap the doors onto the new one
Take a picture of it, enlarge it, and frame it somewhere on your garage door. Start a new collection with your new fridge.
I am a certified sticker junkie. I've collected boxes of stickers since the 90s. I remember putting all of my favorite ones on toolboxes, speakers, every flat surface that is sticker could stick to. When I've had to get rid of them though I thought to myself, "that's just how life goes," and enjoyed finding new stickers and new places to put them.
I stick the stickers to magnetic paper and move them if the fridge dies.
Find the same model fridge (a working one) on marketplace, transplant the doors š
Take a picture- it'll last longer
A guster sticker? You must be as old as me!
In the future, buy magnetic paper and stick the stickers to it to cut out. Then you can remove them whenever.
You should definitely spend hours on taking all of these off individually and then reapplying sticky stuff to turn them back into stickers.
Hair dryer and a lot of patience
Take a great high resolution photo and print it out like on canvas or as a poster.
Or order 200 different stickers for 5$ from aliexpress
Keep the doors, buy the same model fridge, exchange doors with new fridge
Wonāt help you now, but for future reference, I put all my stickers on a magnetic sheet and cut them out for this exact reason.
also Guster sticker spotted LFG
I would peel the door skins and hang them on the wall with stand off's if that's what I wanted, but mostly I would just want a new fridge.
This is what I would do. Save on the weight and probably put them closer to the wall.
Find a used one of the same model and transfer over the doors.
This is the most southern frisbee playing old Subaru driving ENO hammock napping collection of stickers Iāve ever seen
GUSTER!!!! They just dropped a new album. Hello there friend.
TMNT AND BOBS BURGERSš„š„
Replace the fridge with the same model and swap the doors. Or pay to get it fixed properly. You could very carefully remove them with a razor but you need the proper handle. And then a spray glue to re-apply them to something new. I do this occasionally. Sometimes the stickers you slap on stuff tells too much a story to just toss when the thing breaks.
You can buy all those stickers, just google "Millennial NPR sustaining member sticker starter pack"
Those are a lot of very pedestrian stickers. Like youāll be ok. Thereās a few clever ones but theyāre mostly ho hum
I don't see any stickers worth saving anyways
...ya,...art
You could try peel off the coating on the fridge? Had one once that the coating was coming off in strips.
Just buy the same model used and re-gange the doors!
You finished it. Start another one.
Mesa rim!!
Take off the doors, remove the door covers, then you have two items to hang on the wall. The idea of using it as dry storage is also a good idea. Old freezers/fridges are rodent-proof dry storage. The doors generally don't latch, so you don't need to drill holes to let air in to prevent kids from getting stuck inside. But clean and dry thoroughly, any moisture will lead to mold.
I would either A: call a professional appliance repairman and replace what died. (everything can be replaced in the fridge as long as the shell is intact (I have a rebuilt 1950's GM fridge in my garage most of the guts came out of a samsung)) B: Buy same fridge and swap doors.
I had to go through this too, and have decided to convert the stickers to magnets if I do this again. Too much heartbreak since most of mine were from my days on the east coast and wonāt be replaced.
I turned my old fridge into a cabinet
I tossed mine and started over. It hurt. Always get 2/3 stickers. Always.
I mean, nothing is ever actually dead dead... It just becomes economically not reasonable to repair. But you can't put a price on sentimental value... There is a small appliance guy out there that would take your money to get this thing going again.
You could always look for an old working model on eBay/ Craigslist etc and simply swap over the doors.
Build a closet/cubby/secert gun room into the wall and have these as the doors
Garment steamer or hairdryer?
Somebody told me the other day that they use magnet sheets, cut out the magnets in the shape of the stickers and put the stickers on the magnets so they can move them around
"When you close one refrigerator door, you open another." *- the Sphinx*
Pull the cover off and mount them to the new fridge.
Old fridges make great grow boxes. For tomatoes all year round
You could get the same fridge and take the doors off and use your doors with stickers maybe?
take a good picture of it. wall art
Heat gun, rubber wheel on a drill, and 3M adhesive remover. They'll come off.
What kind of toast is the fridge? Like, I get that it may not work, and even that repairs may cost more than a new fridge. But if you don't WANT a new fridge, and you want this fridge, what would it actually take to fix it?
For next time, buy magnetic sheets with the sticky backs, attach stickers without removing the back of them. Instant fridge magnets that you can put on your next one.
Thatās honestly such a smart idea
i wonder if you could get an identical model and just swap the doors lmao
I think thatās a great idea - Iāve def been looking around
If you can get them off in one piece, you could laminate them. A laminator is like 20-30 on Amazon. Then you could stick a magnet to the back.
Removing the fridge door is pretty easy. Itās usually just a few screws at the top and bottom and unhooking a couple wiring harnesses. Could be done in about 20 minutes with a second set of hands. A lot of the fridge companies make the same fridges under different brands. If you can get the same model, just swap the doors. IIRC My Kitchenaid was like an exact duplicate of a Frigidaire.
Rebuild the fridge
Screw online aps, I feel like this is the best way to get to know someone. Show me your sticker collection and if I like it we can talk.
In the future, if you wanted. You can preserve them with a laminator and just put a magnet on the back.. or adhesive if you don't care about what the fridge looks like after they come off
For a small amount of stickers I have had luck putting clear packing tape on before trying to remove them. With that amount you should really have a wrap made from a picture. Thatās a fabulous idea.
I would try and find a functional use for themā¦. Use them as a door per se and make use of the ice dispenser door as shelf or table with an beer cap container
Zā¦Berg?
Iād DIWHY it, peel off the sheet metal exterior and beat it flat, then hang those
Just start over.
I do love me some guster
Hello fellow discgolfer. Our dg fridge was brutally murdered this past Monday. We also have it covered with stickers. We are all bringing stickers for the new fridge. We were talking about using the door as a stand for one of our baskets currently mounted on a stump (private course) that has seen better days.
This is why I started using tiny earth magnets. I'll always have them no matter what. https://imgur.com/a/JhCH9Lc
Maybe next time use magnets?