April 2010

When Was the Last Time You Replaced the Water Filter in Your Refrigerator?

April 24, 2010 Appliance Parts Smarts

Ice and cold water season is here. Refrigerator water filters can remove bad taste and scale from your ice and water dispenser as well lots of poisonous yucky stuff often found in water, even city water, such as lead, asbestos, chlorine, giardia, cysts, pesticides, and herbicides. But water filters become saturated after six to 12 [...]

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GE Refrigerator Muthaboard Concession Letter

April 12, 2010 Refrigerator Repair

Gene wrote: I got hot food and cold freezer in my GE Profile PSC23NSTE SS. I’d like to see the GE refrigerator motherboard recall list before I talk to GE. Can I get a copy of GE_Refrig_Board.pdf? Thanks, Gene Ax and ye shall receive! GE Refrigerator Motherboard Concession Letter To learn more about your refrigerator, [...]

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Samurai Appliance Repair Forum Server Migration Status

April 11, 2010 Website Updates

Migrating the Samurai Appliance Repair Forums to a new server. You can keep up with the migration status on this page: http://fixitnow.com/samurai-appliance-repair-forum-server-migration-status/

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How to Remove the Fresh Food Air Damper in the GE Arctica Pro Side-by-Side GSS23-GSS25-GSS27-PSS23-PSS27-PSS29-PSSS25 Refrigerator

April 9, 2010 Refrigerator Repair

One of the many common problems with this otherwise highly mediocre refrigerator is that the air damper– the port that brings cold air from the freezer into the beer compartment to keep your beer and milk cold– gets FUBAR and you have to replace it. A common sign of this problem is frozen beer, as [...]

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Complete Repair Library for the Fridgemore Front Loading Washing Machine

April 9, 2010 Washer Repair

Here, in this post, I present to you, my beloved Grasshoppers, a complete repair reference library for the Frigidaire-built, front-loading washer, also sold under the Kenwhore label with the 417 model number prefix. This is for Frigidaire’s “Affinity” line. Consider it a Paschal gift. Христос воскресе! Owner’s Guide Wiring Diagram Installation Instructions Parts Manual Replacement [...]

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Removing and Replacing a Drum Vane in a Frigidaire-Built Front Load Washer

April 9, 2010 Washer Repair

Yeah, wash enough tennis shoes, dog beds, and iron jock straps in your front loader and, sooner or later, you’re gonna break one o’ them drum vanes. The fix is easy as pie… once you know the secret handshake. This page will help you do that in the Frigidaire-built front loaders, which includes Kenmore’s with [...]

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Maytag or Amana 19-20-22 Cu. Ft. Bottom-Mount Refrigerator Control Console Disassembly

April 9, 2010 Refrigerator Repair

If you have one of those Maytag or Amana bottom-freezer refrigerators, at some point you’ll have to disassemble the control console mounted in the ceiling of the beer compartment (same place where you set the temperature). One common example for why you may need to do this is to replace the cold control (thermostat), or [...]

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