ozone in the garage
 

Not the ozone in the atmosphere but the stuff produced by the refrigerator that people like to keep in their garage. Ozone is supposed break down natural and synthetic rubber, problem is, our cars are in there too. Is this a myth? True, but way overblown? Harmless?
What have you guys heard/experienced?

Any ozone produced by your refrigerator (through arcing at the brushes in the compressor motor) would never get out of the sealed compressor unit.
Sleep well.
Les

Ozone destroys rubber and other types of materials. Home electronics repair folks have documented a big increase in rubber parts failures (VCR drive belts, etc.) due to owners use of electronic air purifiers. Note that these air purifiers are now being marketed with 'ozone guard' to control their own pollution. Les is right that a refrigerator will not generate ozone. It takes high-voltage corona or a lot of low-voltage arcing to create ozone.

Thanks guys. I Googled the question and found a lot of the same info regarding electric motors, etc. I have heard that an old, poorly running Frig/Freezer can be a problem in the garage.

Even if the frig is generating O3 that gets released, the overall concentration within the garage would be negligible. Not an overall concern IMO.