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Ok, tried to solve this myself but am losing the will to live now. It's the selector knob for my fridge, the plastic cracked and luckily it is stuck on gas, which is the most useful for me, at the moment. But it would be good to be able to work it on battery and electric. It's a Dometic RMS8500, I have found spares that say selector knob and then a long number but without a photo I really can't say what it is. Anybody know? And would it really be as simple as putting the new doodah in for it to work? (my experience with her ladyship so far is that things often are not quite that simple).

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I found this
https://www.leisureshopdirect.com/c...igerator/dometic-turning-knobselector-switchs
which says it should fit but suggest using the product code.
But when I put in the product code it has no PDF diagram available, so I am no further.

Hope this highly technical explanation is sufficient for one of you clever people to know what I mean...
Thank you
Sophie
 
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You could send https://caratech.co.uk/ all the info,model and product no and your photo,
contact info at the bottom of their page.

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Now he needs to know where to buy glue.

Come on boys and girls ;)

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Thank you. As mentioned above, it crossed my mind this evening (having a boring job has its advantages) that I could try and glue the piece and see if that works first.

Think I'd try winding sellotape fairly tightly around the cracked section a few times, even if you glue it or not. I think with glue alone it will just split again in time.
 
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Think I'd try winding sellotape fairly tightly around the cracked section a few times, even if you glue it or not. I think with glue alone it will just split again in time.
Thank you. Will still get the spare part but I'm going away soon for 2.5 weeks and if I can't get the part before then hopefully it will work like this. It's been ok for my weekends away as I don't tend to go far and don't need the fridge on 12v. But think I may want the fridge to work for a long drive.

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Weld it up with a hot soldering iron and then wrap a bit of tape around as long as there is clearance to get it back in the hole.

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Lots of pressure on that part when turning. If there is space find some fine single core wire and bind it tightly then brush over with varnish. leave to dry and should give a"fairish" bodge n go repair. Ensure before you add the varnish that the newly wire wrapped switch will pass through the hole. The wire only needs to be fine.
 
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Weld it up with a hot soldering iron and then wrap a bit of tape around as long as there is clearance to get it back in the hole.

Martin

Thanks, but think that might be a bit beyond me. It's actually good to get all these ideas though, not things that would have crossed my mind. Makes owning the van seem less of a 'goodness, what have I taken on'.

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Lots of pressure on that part when turning. If there is space find some fine single core wire and bind it tightly then brush over with varnish. leave to dry and should give a"fairish" bodge n go repair. Ensure before you add the varnish that the newly wire wrapped switch will pass through the hole. The wire only needs to be fine.


You're quite right, I was quite surprised to just find something plastic, plastic does tend to disintegrate. And the wire (would think the type I have used for stringing beads should do) and varnish idea is not something I would have ever thought about.
 

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Sophie, can't help with any ideas but hope you get it sorted.

Good luck

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Sophie, can't help with any ideas but hope you get it sorted.

Good luck

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Thank you. The superglue didn't work and caratech doesn't stock it. Will try Dometic itself next.

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Sophie @SGNV this may help.

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The best temporary repair for that would be to glue a tight fitting piece of metal tubing over the end, something like a small plumbing olive, piece of microbore copper pipe or section cut from a metal bodied ball point pen, just something to stop it "camming" open when you turn it. Can you reach into the opening and turn the shaft using long nose pliers or similar, just to get you away ?

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The best temporary repair for that would be to glue a tight fitting piece of metal tubing over the end, something like a small plumbing olive, piece of microbore copper pipe or section cut from a metal bodied ball point pen, just something to stop it "camming" open when you turn it. Can you reach into the opening and turn the shaft using long nose pliers or similar, just to get you away ?


As long as it is stuck on gas, I should be fine even for the long drive as I don't tend to do 'high risk food' (yep, work in the food industry), maybe use an ice block and only move the things over just before leaving. Don't think the pliers would work as it is quite a small hole, tight fit and goes a long way in. (thinking loud) maybe I could wrap one of my empty paint tubes, cut open around it, the cobalt is nearly empty. May give that a try. Thank you.
 
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Right, tried the paint tube trick and it seems to work, will play it safe though and still see if I can order a part. Thank you all, really useful to get all this lateral thinking as I would have never come up with this solution. Liked it so much that I have now also used it on one of my Chinese brushes, the plastic ferrule was starting to split and it would soon loose all its hairs, had thought I would soon need a new one (still might get one, some women collect shoes and handbags, I like paints and brushes).

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