Ice Maker Repair

Ice maker not making ice? Fin…

August 27, 2010 Ice Maker Repair

Ice maker not making ice? Find out why with Samurai Appliance Repair Man’s spiffy troubleshooting flowchart http://bit.ly/dp5SS5

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Frigidaire Refrigerator Will Not Stop Dispensing Ice and Sprays Water Instead of Pours

August 17, 2010 Ice Maker Repair

Jeff wrote: The dispenser on my Frigidaire refrigerator, model number FRS6LF7JS3, is acting weird: 1 – Yesterday morning the water dispenser on my fridge began to spray water instead of pour it. Ok I will deal with it later. 2 – By 5 pm I return home and my wife indicates the ice maker is [...]

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Get Your LG Appliance Parts Right Here at Your Local Online Appliance Repair Shop

August 10, 2010 Appliance Parts Smarts

What does “local” mean anymore in this age of the Internet? I mean, can you get any more local than right here on your computer screen? I know we look big time an’ all, but we’re a mom & pop (literally!) operation, too. Instead of a brick n’ mortar repair shop, we’re your online DIY [...]

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Troubleshooting Icemakers with the Fancy Optical Controls

June 29, 2010 Ice Maker Repair

Most icemakers are controlled by a simple wire feeler arm that hangs off the side of the icemaker. As the ice bucket fills up, it raises the feeler arm and eventually stops it from making any more ice so it doesn’t overfill the bucket. But the engineers at Whirlpool were told that they needed to [...]

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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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An Application of the Kinetic Impact Method to Clearing a Frozen Icemaker Fill Tube

January 27, 2010 Haiku

    Ice bucket empty; inner Babe Ruth awakens. Batting a thousand.   To learn more about your ice maker, or to order parts, click here.   To learn more about your refrigerator, or to order parts, click here.

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Whirlpool-Kenmore Side-by-Side Refrigerator with In-Door Ice Dispenser: Poor Ice Production and Deformed Cubes

January 25, 2010 Haiku

  Kenmore Side by Side, sporadic ice, deformed cubes. Nouveau torque module.     To learn more about your refrigerator, or to order parts, click here.

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High Altitude Icemaker Service Call on Franconia Ridge

January 23, 2010 Hillstomping Update

Oh, the places the Samurai doth go to service broken appliances. This place had 50 mph gusts and -15°F temps. Can you believe this was a broken icemaker call? And there was no way to get my service van up there– believe me, I tried! No, I had to trudge four miles up the mountain [...]

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Manually Starting a Harvest Cycle in a New GE Icemaker

December 27, 2009 Ice Maker Repair

To learn more about your ice maker, or to order parts, click here.

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Visualize Your Appliance Repair Experience

November 3, 2009 Dishwasher Repair

Appliance Breakdown Diagrams Grok on these mind-expanding, interactive breakdown diagrams of various appliances so you can see how they’re put together. An indispensible troubleshooting and repair aid! Just click on the appliance you’re working on and run your mouse over the diagrams. It’ll popup pictures of the various key components inside as well as give [...]

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Troubleshooting Flowchart for the Whirlpool-built Modular Icemaker

October 24, 2009 Ice Maker Repair

Here it is, the flowchart you’ve been painfully waiting for while laying awake at night knotted up with anxiety: the Internet’s first systematic troubleshooting flowchart for the Whirlpool-built modular (that means “in your freezer”) icemaker. Go ahead, steal this pdf and share with all your friends… and your enemies, too! Troubleshooting the Whirlpool Modular Icemaker [...]

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Manually Starting the Harvest Cycle in the Whirlpool-Built Modular Icemaker

October 24, 2009 Ice Maker Repair

The Whirlpool-built modular icemaker is used in just about all refrigerators made today, regardless of brand. One notorious exception is the crappy IM6 icemakers used in GE-built refrigerators. Why they didn’t just go with the field-tested Whirlpool-built units is a seedy story of corporate sleaze and extortion now playing in a theater near you! Any-freakin-way, [...]

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Repair Guide for the Whirlpool-built Stand-Alone Ice Machine

May 14, 2009 Ice Maker Repair

This is the ice machine that makes a slab of ice and slides it onto a grid that cuts the ice into little squares. Along with clear and cogent explanations, this excellent and comprehensive repair guide for the Whirlpool-built stand-alone ice machine also contains lots of links to parts and other repair resources for these [...]

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Buying a Replacement or Add-on Ice Maker

October 28, 2008 Ice Maker Repair

Looking to replace your dearly departed icemaker? Sick of filling ice cube trays and you’re finally going to install an icemaker kit in your fridge? Figuring out which kit you need can be confusing. Let this handy table be your guiding light. Refrigerator Replacement orAdd-On [1] Icemaker Kit to Buy Whirlpool and Kenmore with Flat-Style [...]

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Ice Maker Ice Mold Flaking Off Crud into the Ice

August 7, 2008 Ice Maker Repair

Noticing some weird crud in the ice from your icemaker lately? You may have a defective mold, like the one shown here. A healthy ice maker should NOT look like this. This rough appearance is caused by the teflon coating on the ice maker mold flaking off, depositing Teflon flakes into your ice. Very hazardous [...]

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