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Posted by PipeDown on July 24, 2006, 4:48 pm
>I have ice maker used to crank ice like crazy. Then the water line
> started leaking all over the floor in back of the fridge.
> I put a new clamp on the line and it stopped leaking, but then wasn't
> getting water to the ice maker. I used hair dryer to clear the water
> line and now it gets water and freezes, but won't eject the ice.
> I used hair dryer to heat the tray and it finally went around and
> dumped the ice out.
> Now the only way I can get the thing to dump ice is if I run the hair
> dryer on the tray first.
> Does this mean the heating coil is bad?
> I just bought this ice maker last year to replace the origional that
> stripped gears.
>
The hairdrier solution may only have been temporary by allowing the water to
refreeze after you finished. Try to properly and fully defrost the freezer
then try again before panicking. If a full defrost is impractical, remove
the ice maker and let it dry out on the coutertop completely before
reinstalling it. At least try reinserting the connector in case a contact
is open.
If it were just the heater, it would attempt to dump (rotate tray) but the
ice would stay in or prevent complete rotation of the tray. If a switch
inside were frozen, it might just idle and not try and eject at all.
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