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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForsakenConservative" data-source="post: 3863057" data-attributes="member: 47240">+1 on the foreign-made parts availability……crazy hard to get. Our appliance guy said they’re all a crap-shoot,  you get a good one or you don’t. His opinion was buy domestic, simply because you are more likely (but not assured) to find parts. If your appliance needs a whozawhatzit, then every one sold likely needs one too. Add in that they share so many common parts, they become hard to get…..even harder if they are warehoused or made on the other side of the globe (most stuff is admittedly chicom-made, but ”domestic” stuff might be more available).As for the upright/power outage thing, our upright (12+ years old, frigidaire) has done well with minimal aux generator support, although we have not had any really long outages to deal with where I am. I think keeping it nearly full, and limiting door-open time is the trick to keeping it cold for a long time.We just put half a beef in it, and had room (not much<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😀" title="😀" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" />) for a blue and gold order, I think it’s a 21 cu/footer.Get the biggest one you can afford and fit!!</blockquote>