Ice maker problem

[ea56]

Chuck

you and I think alike on this subject.  We’ve only had an automatic ice maker once.  We bought a 17 cu ft Hotpoint top freezer refrigerator in 1985 that had the provision for installing an ice maker at a later date.  The rental we lived in at the time didn’t have a water line available for an ice maker.  When we moved in 1987 to our first condo there was a water connection in the space dedicated for the fridge, so I went to Best Buy and bought the ice maker kit and installed it myself.  It was a nice convenience and we enjoyed having it for a few years.  When we sold the condo in 1994 the Hotpoint fridge went with the sale.  

 

Our present home came with the sellers 18 cu ft Kenmore top freezer fridge, sans ice maker.  And there was not a water line for one either.  At first I thought I couldn’t live without an ice maker, but I quickly adapted and haven’t missed having one either.  One less thing to break down.  We don’t use a lot of ice anyway, so making ice the old fashioned way with ice trays isn’t a problem at all.

 

This is our ice maker.

 

Eddie

 

[kevin313]

Eddie,

I think you and I have the same ice making unit! Here's mine:

 

[yogitunes]

I dont miss the days of having to manually fill ice trays, carry to freezer, hopeing not to spill any....then when you go for a few cubes for your drink, only to find that someone else has emptied them and placed them back in the freezer empty....

when I got my first fridge, the first thing I searched for was an Ice Maker....had to have it, can't live another day without it...

what I loved about the Kenmore, CAPACITY, I never ran out of ice.....with this Whirlpool on the door, I was forever running out, but then I added a bin on one of the shelves, and store up on cubes as the bin gets full...

got to love this Acceler-Ice feature....worthless...claims if you run low on ice, to hit this pad, and it will speed up the production of ice...bin will be full in 24 hours.....guests are here now, I dont have 24 hours to wait for it to refill...

 

[rp2813]

I never had an ice maker until I met Dave in 1985.  I was hooked right away.  I use ice on a daily basis and filling trays or sacrificing precious freezer space for a huge bag of it get a "hard NO" as they say in Letterkenny.

 

[retro-man]

Well that did not go well. Got the cover off, started to unplug some of the wire harnesses and check the wires and accidently dragged the top of my hand over a very sharp piece of metal and ripped the top of my hand open. Blood everywhere. Took quite a while to get it stopped. Doctors had me on blood thinners and steroids for quite a while and it has thinned out my skin on the top of my hands. After about half an hour with multiple bandages it stopped. Plugged everything back in put the cover on and called for appliance service, they will be here on Dec 2 to fix or replace it. Cleaned up all the mess I made inside so they don't think an animal got caught in the gearing and died. lol

Jon

 

[yogitunes]

dude I am sorry.....yeah, you got to watch those sharp edges BIG TIME....when you least expect it, BAM, sliced into yourself.....

I am forever jabbing myself, no sooner get one cut healed, and I do it again...plus I wear gloves, and it still happens....

but still, keep us posted on your recovery as well as the repair....

 

[DADoES]

 
I rarely get through a refurb project without some nicks ... but haven't yet had anything rough as that sounds.  :-(

 

[jamiel]

I still think the best ice maker was the old GE bottom freezer tray filler--you dumped it when it was frozen...only issue I guess was the levelling of the refrigerator. My mom's friend Mrs. Harger had one and I could "help" by dumping it when I was about 4.

 

[retro-man]

So Anthony showed up yesterday morning, one of the owners of the appliance repair. Nice enough guy seemed very honest and helpful. Not a good outcome. It appears either one or both boards are bad with the infra red light and receiver. So ice maker thinks that it is full all the time. Left board $305.26 the right board is $125.20. So that brings it up to $430.46 with out labor. He even stated this is starting to be expensive ice. Oh wait it gets better. He tried to "jump start" the ice maker with a wire between two ports on the side of the motor section. No response at all. Dead in the water. New ice make $203.81 totaling up to $634.27 without labor. He was getting readings of 120volt at the ice maker. So it had power. No way in hell am I dumping that amount of money into a fridge that is 10 years old. I have never gotten more than 10 years out of a SxS, and I am expecting this one will follow the paths of previous units. So I am going to continue to make ice manually with my 2 trays. May pick up a few more to make smaller cubes and just dump those into the bin. The dispenser/crusher still works fine. It will stop us from opening the door so often just to get ice. Service call was $99.99. He also moved it out and cleaned under front and back, removed back panel and adjusted the shroud for the fan, it would start hitting sometimes depending how the fridge was sitting. He had those neat sliding pads that hook up to the exhaust port on a vacuum and lift the fridge and moves it around on air. Pretty neat how those work and how east that fridge moved around. I was willing to go up $300 but that was my limit not close to $800.00 for ice. lol

Jon

 

[perc-o-prince]

neat sliding pads

When I was with Miele the installers had those air skids- they came in a kit with their own little "air pig" blower and extra-long extension cord. I was able to help move a 650# range. When I say "help," I mean those of us who had never used them before got to push it around a little, getting it through the hall and in to place. Holy moley- it was like sliding a, maybe, 20# desk around!

 

Sorry to hear about your hand, Jon. We're still working on the downstairs kitchen and I have my bumps, bruises and cuts to show for it, but nothing that bad! Be well!

 

Chuck

 

[retro-man]

Thanks Chuck.

I am sure these sliders save people a lot of sore backs and marked up floors. Glad to hear your remodeling is going along well. Can't wait for pictures of both new kitchens. Hope you and Rich are doing well. Think about you guys often. Happy Holidays to you both. Say hi to Rich for me.

Jon

 

[ea56]

Another thing those sliders are good for is decorating the Christmas Tree. For the last 4 years we have been putting them under the feet of the Christmas Tree stand, moving the tree out into the middle of the room so there’s lots of room to get around it to put the lights and ornament on it. Then once its all decorated we slide it into place in the corner. SO much easier to decorate this way.

Eddie

 

[perc-o-prince]

Eddie,

These are the skids we were referring to. Actually, I stand corrected on the name... air sleds!

 

Chuck

 

 

[ea56]

Sorry Chuck, I thought you were referring to those furniture moving plastic sliders.

Eddie

 

[retro-man]

Chuck that is exactly what he had to move the fridge.
Eddie you had me laughing thinking you were using these under a Christmas tree.

Jon

 

[perc-o-prince]

I was thinking, "Dang, he must have one big-ass tree!" LOL!

 

All good, and yes, the furniture coasters are also extremely useful when moving large pieces! Unfortunately I made the mistake once of not making sure there was nothing at all on the floor and scratched it a bit.

 

Chuck

 

[goatfarmer]

So Frigidaire was ahead of their time, with the Ride Aire!

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?54831_9

 

[retro-man]

Yes I was telling him about that Frigidaire. He had never heard of it before. He was explaining to me about a match lit oven that he had seen and didn't know that any of them were still around. He was 37 and only pretty much into newer stuff. I told him about this website also.

Jon