Fridge interior - the little red toggle at the bottom of the back

[Will__]

At the back of the inside of our fridge is a little red toggle that I seem to remember the instruction manual said not to touch.

 

We were cleaning it this morning, and we wondered....so what does it do anyway? We didn't touch it......

 

Thanks

[simsfreq]

This might be obvious but..... why don't you look in the manual?

[Will__]

Yeah - should have said that we no longer have the manual and it's not online.

 

The toggle is a finger hole red tag thing taht looks like it could be pulled from within a hole in the lining in the fridge. Just wondering about its use.....

[spinner1000]

Could possibly be a drain hole

[dunullbee]

 Wot make of fridge do you have?

[jampot]

Hi its as you thought part of the drain hole, and its there to clean it, give a wiggle every week, thats what I do.

[Tim Baxter]

It's possibly a drain spout to run off the melt water when defrosting into a container so that it doesn't go all over the floor?

[landie]

It's the hole for the little man who turns the light on and off. Iff you start to mess about, by poking your finger in, he'll get miffed and your light may not work.

[uglyduckling]

the red toggle at the back covers the drain hole for the fridge, it wont actually affect the working of the fridge it just stops larger objects falling into the drain pipe and clogging it up, if you have large amounts of water then you can lift the it slightly to allow the water to move faster, the pipe runs down the back of the fridge and all the water collets into a little pot on top of the compressor and evaporates with the heat of the compressor.