Tony,
It does not sound good. 60 degrees is not safe. Did you open the refrig at
any point between noon and 4? While a fan mounted inside the refrig to
circulate the cold air may help, and another fan to cool the coils down on
the outside may help a bit more I don't know that they will help enough.
Instead of completely giving up on your old Dometic I would attempt to have
it rebuilt. While I do not have info on who rebuilts them, I believe that it
has been discussed before.
Scott
> Based on the advice of many, I pulled my 41 year old Dometic reefer out of
> my 17-ft. Caravel and (after cleaning the rust/dirt off of everything)
> turned it upside down for 24 hours. I fired it up at 8:30 am and by noon
> it
> was 50 degrees in the reefer cabinet itself. Outside air temp was about
> 80.
> I was happy. Turning it upside down and the two cans of aluminum spray
> paint
> to make it look pretty evidently had paid off. But then by 4 pm when the
> outside air temp was 92 and it was only 60 inside the reefer cabinet, I
> got
> worried that it wasn't working properly. I THINK I was expecting too much
> given the outside temp. Tell me I should be happy....?