Hi Forest,
Sorry about your refrigerator woes. Since you asked I'll glady give you my thoughts.....
As you know, the sealed refrigerant system has ruptured in some way. It is my experience that leaves only two options for keeping an amonia cycle type refrigerator - replace the enitire unit, or send in the core and received a rebuilt coil and evaporator system. I have done both at one time or the other. There is no reason to believe that your control board is bad too. I would let the condition of the box determine which way I went. If the box is old and you think it may be difficult to get the smell out, a new refrigerator might be the way to go. You will have to check carefully to see if a model with the same dimensions is available.
If you want to go 115vac only, two fully charged 8D's will have no trouble at all with keeping this cool for a night. I do miss the silent operation of the amonia cycle type however.
Good luck,
Russ
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