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Post by linda72 on May 5, 2019 21:26:02 GMT
fullmahina, zazzles, DSIL had continuing problems with his Samsung refrigerator with 2 icemakers in it and he didn't want to pay for repairs. He turned off the icemakers, they defrosted and when he turned them back on, they worked perfectly. It continues to work 3 months later. Don't know why or how but icemakers continue to have issues since they were introduced back in the 70s. Luckily, our Kenmore ice maker is working fine for now.
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Post by zazzles on May 5, 2019 22:40:39 GMT
Oh boy...I forgot about that. We've given up on the door ice dispenser and luckily we got the model with a second ice maker in the freezer drawer. The ice maker in the Samsung is useless---what seems to happen is that cubes melt (I would assume this happens when you open the fridge door) and refreeze and then they jam up the dispenser. Temperamental too, as it will work for a while and then jam up again. That sounds like the complaints I read about, although those complaining seemed to feel that it was a defect that could/should be repaired. But there was a significant number of complaints about it. When I bought my GE, one of my decision points was that it had NO ice dispenser; it has an auto ice maker in the freezer drawer that only takes up a little space; and it has a slim filtered water dispenser on the outside of one of the top doors which does not encroach in any way on the interior. I’m very UNfond of these boxes that eat up a HUGE corner of the refrigerator for an icemaker/dispenser. I saw a BIG Subzero refrigerator at the upscale appliance store that I really liked: inside was nothing but metal rack shelves. I’d like that very much. I can buy my own organizers at The Container Store or BBB; I don’t need some appliance designer deciding how I should use the box and putting in all that thick plastic organization stuff that takes up a lot of the cu. ft. of the interior!
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Post by fullmahina on May 5, 2019 22:45:56 GMT
He turned off the icemakers, they defrosted and when he turned them back on, they worked perfectly. It continues to work 3 months later. I turned off the ice maker and hit the in-door one with a hair dryer and it worked fine for quite a while after that. Then one day...nope. Since I have the freezer ice maker I don't have much incentive to fight with the other ice maker, lol. There are plenty of "fixes" on Youtube and I think I have tried them all. I am very happy with the rest of the unit, no complaints. But that ice maker...aggravating! ETA: Hahahaha---I just went over to check the ice maker in the fridge door. Lo and behold, it's working! I need to empty the bin as the ice must be stale in there. So funny! ETA again: A pic of the two huge chunks of melted and refrozen ice cubes that were in the bin and jamming the ice dispenser (teaspoon for comparison). I rest my case.
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Post by zazzles on May 5, 2019 23:16:05 GMT
He turned off the icemakers, they defrosted and when he turned them back on, they worked perfectly. It continues to work 3 months later. I turned off the ice maker and hit the in-door one with a hair dryer and it worked fine for quite a while after that. Then one day...nope. Since I have the freezer ice maker I don't have much incentive to fight with the other ice maker, lol. There are plenty of "fixes" on Youtube and I think I have tried them all. I am very happy with the rest of the unit, no complaints. But that ice maker...aggravating! ETA: Hahahaha---I just went over to check the ice maker in the fridge door. Lo and behold, it's working! I need to empty the bin as the ice must be stale in there. So funny! ETA again: A pic of the two huge chunks of melted and refrozen ice cubes that were in the bin and jamming the ice dispenser (teaspoon for comparison). I rest my case. Now that I see your photo, I get those blocks with my icemaker, too. However, I have no dispenser: it is a drawer in the freezer underneath the icemaker. So the clumps appear in the drawer and are simple to remove and throw in the sink. In my case, and probably many others, the clumping occurs after the freezer has gone through some number of self-defrost cycles. Probably nothing that can be done about that.
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Post by zazzles on May 5, 2019 23:22:26 GMT
fullmahina, and speaking of old GE boxes, I’m now reminded of my mother’s old (1897) house in S.F. After remodeling my grandmother’s house (next door) and moving in (by carrying what she wanted next door—she bought all new furniture—and closing the door on what was left in the old house, she left behind a GE Profile 3-door side-by-side refrigerator. It had a split left side with freezer and icemaker on the top and a convertible section on the bottom—handy for the holidays when more refrigerator space was needed. That GE box was purchased, probably, aroumd 1964. She moved out of that house in about 1997. And after she passed away and I was preparing the houses for sale in 2013 I found that GE box was still working and the icemaker had been working all those years! They don’t make appliances like that anymore for sure!
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Post by linda72 on May 6, 2019 1:29:24 GMT
the clumping occurs after the freezer has gone through some number of self-defrost cycles. That is the inherent weakness with most frost-free refrigerators. You'd think they would come up with a solution to this problem. ("If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can solve this problem here on Earth." I've heard that sort of quote so many times for situations with problems)
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