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I am in the process of ripping the guts out of a mini fridge and I cannot seem to find the answer to my question in the many vids on the interweb.

-All connections are free & ready to be detached from the fridge except for two small copper tubes. One on the right and one on the left. Can I cut these and still maintain all functionality of the compressor and cooling unit? They are buried in the dense foam insulation in the wall off the fridge and I'm not sure where the hell these things end.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I hope my attempt to attach the photos worked

I don't see your pictures but these tubes may be the condenser loop. You definitely don't want to cut those. I've dismantled a few mini fridges. You have to take off the sheet metal exterior by prying it from the foam. Then take the condenser loop out of the foam that it's embedded in. It's a big mess but then you'll have all the parts you need. But by all means don't cut any copper tubes.

The pics don't show up because they are on secure urls (https instead of http)
You will have to move them to somewhere else that we can actually get access to them for them to show up.

Thanks for the help. I have the back dismantled along with the foam, I guess I was trying to avoid doing the same with each side wall. I wish it was an older fridge where those coils were on the exterior vs embedded in some type of spray foam.

I'll grab a beer and get to work.