From the monthly archives:
Hearing something funky going on with the beer box? Chances are it’s nothing to freak out about. This diagram explains many of the most common noises– click it for a bigger view and put your mind at ease.
To learn more about your refrigerator, or to order parts, click here.
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Whirlpool has issued a service bulletin to repair this persistent and annoying problem. Fortunately, the defrost drain heater kit needed to correct this problem is inexpensive.
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If you’re contemplating taking on this repair, welcome to HELL! Some wise appliance techs (hey, is that an oxymoron?) discuss their experiences with this trial-by-fire in this topic and this one at the Samurai Appliance Repair Forum.
You’ll need the hub seal kit, which you can buy here. It comes with complete instructions. The [...]
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This is a known issue with these otherwise fine washing machines. There is a repair bulletin out to have the door latch shimmed to alleviate this noise from the door when it is in spin. Pegi, one of the Master Appliantologists and the Moderator at the repair forum, explains more fully in this [...]
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Trying to Help, one of the distinguished Sublime Masters of Appliantology in the repair forum, explains how to troubleshoot this pesky problem.
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This applies to the Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerators, the three-digit prefix on the model number is 106.xxxx.
The situation here is that the freezer is at design temp, defined as 0F, but the beer compartment won’t get cold no matter where you set the temp control. There was a service flash out on these units. [...]
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Samurai Appliance Repair Man and Mrs. Samurai take you on a wild romp into the seedy underbelly of the appliance repair world. In this episode, we explain what to look for in a decent appliance service company and how to avoid getting screwed in an appliance service call.
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Jedi Appliance Guy explains what’s going on with this annoying ice dispenser problem and how GE is trying to sleaze out of doing the proper repair on their typically-shoddy products.
Yanno, you people who go shopping for the cheap GE crap at the big box stores, like Home Depot, deserve to be burdened with [...]
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Just realized that this month marks my six year anniversary of blogging about (mostly) appliance repair topics. How do I do it? More importantly, WHY do I do it? I still wonder that as I swill cheap beer and pick black flies out of my nostrils. I mean, sure, making two-bits [...]
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Hot tip on this problem from our friends at Maytag:
A poor connection between the wire terminals and the heater relay causes high current draw and damages the terminals on the heater relay on the main control board.
The correction is to replace the main control board as well as both 1/4″ female tin terminals on [...]
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If your Kitchenaid built-in wall oven keeps blowing the thermal fuse, there’s a service kit out to fix this problem. Parts links and detailed discussion of this problem here.
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If you had the extreme misfortune of purchasing a newer GE top-loading washer, then sooner or later you’ll need to tear down this feculent machine. These tear-sheets from the service manual awwta hepya.
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A grasshopper just completed this repair on his Asko dryer and was kind enough to post a well-written step-by-step procedure in the repair forum.
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