Ice Maker Concepts

[whirlcool]

Cats will glom up computers too, laptops even faster. Just looked under my fridge and it's pretty fuzzy and inaccessable unless someone else held it tilted.


We used a hand dolly to hold the refrigerator up on one side. Just about a foot of tilt on one side gave us access to all the coils underneath. I agree, it really is a bad design. We also removed the back cardboard/fiberglass backing that was on the lower 1/4 of the refrigerator because it was disintegrating. I think we gave this refrigerator a few more years of life.

A few years ago my sister had a Dell desktop PC. When she tried to run her hard drive backup program just before it ended the computer would shut down. Her & her husband couldn't figure out what was wrong. I did, I had them open the case and sure enough the case fan wasn't even plugged in anywhere. Plugged it in where it was supposed to go and cleaned out all of the cat hair that had totally encased the case interior and the problem was resolved.

I've taken apart a few laptops before and was surprised at how dusty/dirty they were. They seem to catch everything.

 

[whirlcool]

I've heard that like 90% of the jobs in Houston are related to the oil industry???

It used to be that about 60% of the well paying jobs here were in the oil industry.
But around 1985 when the industry crashed, Houston had some very hard times right after that.

So the city became more diversified in what kind of businesses are based here.
Now there is a lot of transportation, film making, corporate headquarter type of jobs here. I came here to retire as the cost of living and what you get for your money goes a lot further than anywhere else!

 

[DADoES]

 
Allen, depending on the design of the unit, the cardboard backing may be needed to properly route condensor airflow.  My 2004 Arctica has a "jellyroll" condensor with the fan mounted inside it at one end to pull air directly through, so it doesn't really need the rear panel.  My grandmother's 28-years-old Whirly, however, does need the rear panel.  It was deteriorated and tore when I changed the compressor relay a couple years ago, so I made a new panel.

A friend gave a laptop to me several years ago.  She said it was overheating frequently, although she did have a dual-fan cooling platform for it.  I don't much care for laptops so I tossed it in a closet.  Found a use for it about 1.5 years later.  Blew all the cat hair out of the fan and vents and it hasn't overheated even once.

 

[whirlcool]

How do I tell if this refrigerator needs a backing installed? Are there any symptoms I should watch for?

 

[whirlcool]

I finally finished this ice maker replacement.

In order for the original bin to fit I had to cut the left rear side of the ice collection bin two inches down and three inches across to accommodate the longer power cord of the replacement ice maker.

I used a Dremel with a high speed cutter bit and cut the section out. Then I used a sanding bit to buff the sharp edges on the plastic bin down. The result is that the bin looks like it came from GE this way. The entire bin cutting job took less than 5 minutes.

So this job has been completed and closed. And hopefully this refrigerator will last many more years.