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Posted by Oren on January 16, 2008, 4:44 pm
wrote:
>GROVER wrote:
>> On Jan 16, 2:50 pm, "Charlie Bress" <Here-I-am-at-the-last-moment.com>
>> wrote:
>>> The refrigerator is an Amana BX22TW.
>>> The problem is associated with the icemaker.
>>>
>>> We opened the freezer door and found a lot of heavy frost that was in the
>>> 1/2 of the freezer that holds the icemaker.
>>> Most of this was almost fluffy. It was in the ice tray and on top of the ice
>>> that was in there.
>>> It was also on the back wall of the freezer and it coated frozen packages
>>> that are in that part of the freezer.
>>> There was a little hard ice that had formed on the lip of the ice container.
>>> The first thing I did was to shut off the water supply at an eternal filter
>>> and raise the arm to the off position.
>>>
>>> It is not a case of the water just overflowing. The ice in the container was
>>> not frozen together as if water had been running into the cubes that were
>>> already there . Some of the cubes were stuck slightly stuck together but no
>>> more solidly than what happens sometimes just from the defrost cycle. the
>>> ice is clearing up by itself either due to the defrost cycle or just
>>> sublimation.
>>>
>>> I have not tried to turn the water on again yet. What is the most likely
>>> cause of this? I don't want to start shotgunning a repair/replacement.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>
>> There may be other causes, but I had a similar problem and it turned
>> out to be caused by the refrigerator door not closing tightly. Check
>> that there's nothing in the way of the door and check the door
>> gasket.
>>
>> Joe G
>
>I'd agree. My mother tends to stuff her freezer to the max and beyond
>and one time (probably many more than I've witnessed) she managed to
>load it so that the freezer door wouldn't quite close. The inside looked
>pretty much as the OP described with most of the freezer contents
>covered in a thick coat of fluffy ice crystals. This could be a matter
>of a bad seal or a door simply not closed tightly enough.
Sometimes a cleaning of the door gasket with mild cleaner and warm
water works to help the door seal tighter. Worked for me.
Oren
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