Appliance Repair Posts

Perfect Appliance Gift Ideas

December 14, 2011 Appliance News

The Samurai has scoured both the Innernet AND the Outernet rounding up those perfect Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus gift ideas for that special Fixer Dude or Dudette in your life.  Click the photos for more info or to purchase.   Stay warm AND safe with this Pocket Air Check combustible gas leak detector. Works with Natural [...]

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Testing a Microwave High-Voltage Rectifier

December 12, 2011 Microwave Ovens

When you’re troubleshooting a no-heat complaint in a microwave, one of the components you may need to check is the high-voltage rectifier (called a “rectumflyer” in the trade. ) Trouble is, the junction resistance on these rectumfliers is so high that doing a standard forward and reverse bias test with an ohm meter won’t tell [...]

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How to remove a stuck agitator from a washing machine without getting agitated

December 10, 2011 Washer Repair

If you ever need to remove the inner basket to do a repair on a top-loading washer, one of the first things you’ll need to do is remove the agitator. For some older machines with years of accumulated gookus and crudus caked up under the agitator, this seemingly simple and mundane task can be one [...]

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How to test a dryer cycling thermostat

December 8, 2011 Dryer Repair

When you run your dryer, whether gas or electric, the heat will turn on and off to maintain the temperature within the range selected on the control panel (cottons, permapress, knits, etc.). The temperature is controlled by a device called a cycling thermostat. If your dryer isn’t heating at all or is staying too hot [...]

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How to disassemble an LG dryer to remove a sock or something stuck in the blower

December 3, 2011 Dryer Repair

So your dryer powers up, you select a cycle and push start and the dryer hums for a coupla seconds and then goes quiet for a while. This usually indicates something is blocking the drum from rotating. A sock stuck in the blower would do it. A quick test to see if you have a [...]

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GE Refrigerator Appliantology: Dampers and Thermistors

November 30, 2011 Refrigerator Repair

This is the next in a series of posts I’m doing about the technology used in GE refrigerators. Understanding the basics of how these refrigerators work will give you a lot of troubleshooting insight when you’re trying to track down a problem. For the previous post in this series on controlling and operating the fan [...]

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GE Refrigerator Appliantology: Fans, Evaporator and Condenser

November 29, 2011 Refrigerator Repair

This is the first in a series of posts I’m going to do about the technology used in GE refrigerators. Understanding the basics of how these refrigerators work will give you a lot of troubleshooting insight when you’re trying to track down a problem. This post explains how the fans in GE refrigerators are controlled [...]

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Mailbag: Why has the ice maker in my Whirlpool Gold refrigerator stopped making ice?

October 8, 2011 Ice Maker Repair

Graeme wrote: I have a Whirlpool Gold 2 Door Refrigerator with an indoor Icemaker. There was no water coming into the icemaker so I removed it to see if I coild figure out why it was not getting water and my Daughter rotated the “ice ejector” you know the thing that says “Do not rotate [...]

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Whirlpool Duet Sport Washer powers up, locks door, but drum doesn’t tumble or spin; F21, F26

September 28, 2011 Washer Repair

Here’s a typical problem description for this particular failure: sundevil6 wrote: My Whirlpool Duet Sport washer won’t run. Washer has power and turns on. When I start it the door will lock and then nothing else will happen. Push cancel and the the add a garment light blinks and washer won’t do anything and the [...]

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How to test the bake or broil element in an electric oven to see if it’s good or not

September 8, 2011 Oven Repair

Everyday I get at least one email about an electric oven that won’t heat up. Many times, the person emailing me had already bought a replacement element hoping that was the problem because they didn’t know how to test their element to see whether or not it was bad in the first place. This video [...]

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GE JTP18 convection oven door won’t open after clean cycle; DOOR error on control panel

September 7, 2011 Oven Repair

Don wrote: GE convection oven model # JTP18WOW1WW Oven has blinking light “door locked” Enter in any temp for oven and DOOR comes up on screeen Thank you Don Issues: 1. Door will not open after self clean cycle due to motorized latch motor stuck in closed position or 2. Grinding noise during motorized lock [...]

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Appliantology Newsletter, August 2011: Appliances and Disasters

August 27, 2011 General Appliance Wisdom

Appliantology Newsletter, August 2011: Appliances and Disasters 0. Introduction 1. Can I use my appliances during a disaster? 2. Does it hurt my appliances to run them or have them plugged in while the power is blinking on and off? 3. Can running my appliances off a generator damage them? 4. What about water? 5. [...]

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How to replace the Hall Sensor in an LG front-loading washer

August 26, 2011 Washer Repair

So, you tested the Hall Sensor in your LG washer and determined that it’s toast. Now the big questions: 1) Where to get the new sensor? and 2) How to install it? 1. Where to get the new Hall Sensor? Right here, of course! With fast shipping and a 365-day return policy, the choice of [...]

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How to handle and store food safely during power outages

August 25, 2011 General Appliance Wisdom

With Hurricane Irene and earthquakes cranking up along the East Coast and the ensuing power outages that are sure to follow, here’s some timely info on safely storing and handling food during weather emergencies and power outages. We practice basic safe food handling in our daily lives, but obtaining and storing food safely becomes more [...]

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How to replace the evaporator (freezer) fan motor in a freezer-on-top refrigerator

August 4, 2011 Refrigerator Repair

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