Well some bad news some good. Bad news is the polystyrene insulation is breaking down and this means it is becoming waterlogged and then freezing. This causes the area around the cooling tubes at the rear of the freezer to also freeze up so badly that it seals over the drip tube which causes more water to stay in top of the fridge and the problem then gets worse. He thinks the fridge is on borrowed time, that will be $55 thank you (not as expensive as I thought it might be). The good news is the auto defrost is still operating so I have attached a copper wire to it and pushed about 2 inches down the drain hole and this should stop it freezing over, I hope. It's now turned off and after it is completely defrosted he thinks it will go back to working ok but I have to keep an eye on it and when it starts frosting up badly as he tells me it will, then I will just have to manually defrost it like we did in the old days. Not the best news but maybe it will outlast me who knows.
Zane
Not VMX, well maybe a little there are a lot of bike stickers on it.