What's up everyone? Welcome to The Durbin Compound! If we're meeting for the first time, my name is
Devin Durbin. I'm here to bring you the tools, tips, and tricks to make you more self-sufficient. So on
today's episode we're talking about ice makers. If you have a fairly new refrigerator and your ice
maker just stops working out of the blue, well, the cure might be easier than you think! Stay tuned!
All right, now that we're in here at the ice maker, let's go ahead
and remove our basket here. And then we're going to go ahead and remove this plastic
tray at the top. It just snaps out and reveals our actual ice maker.
Okay, so I wanted to explain exactly what goes on here when the ice maker does its job.
Basically what it will do is it will bring this arm down and it will check the level
of the ice in here, whether or not it should fill. So back in here is a tube that fills
your tray with water and then as it freezes it will go ahead and when it dumps it will twist
that tray and break all of the ice out of the tray. So sometimes a lot of this it looks like it's just
under a little bit of a bind. And sometimes what happens is condensation will gather on these parts
and the ice will freeze it up. And the easiest way that you can usually get away with,
you know, taking care of this problem, is just to take a simple hair dryer and heat up some
of these components. Now we're just doing it enough to make sure we get all of the ice out
of the nooks and crannies of these small plastic parts. And it would help if my outlet worked here.
Outlet is dead. That's great. All right let's go ahead and heat this up.
All right, now that we've heated this up enough, there is a reset button on the bottom
of the unit here. I'm going to take a picture so that you guys can see.
There's a reset button right here on the end of the arm mechanism. So what you want to do
since you went ahead and thawed out the mechanism here, reinsert your basket
and then we're going to simply hit the button here.
All right!
I might have hit it a couple times. I shouldn't have hit it a couple times, just once. See, so
our arm went down and checked the ice, and then it came back up, and then it dumped the
tray. So, now all of our parts seem to be moving okay. It was just a frozen, or a glitch,
and then our water starts to flow again here on the left side. So forgive my videography
skills here in such a hard place, but this water will fill our tray. The ice will then
cool down and freeze, and then after a set amount of time
this mechanism will then turn it over. So just a, you know, theory of operation there.
I thawed out a couple pieces there with the hair dryer and boom we're back up and running.
All right guys, so that is a pretty simple fix for a newer refrigerator. I have done that fix
three or four times on different refrigerators all over the place.
So it's just some condensation that sometimes gets frozen and you don't have an actual
problem. It's the things that happen when you get frustrated that often break little components. So
do not get in there on a frozen ice maker tray and start prying and trying to get it to do something
that it's bound up on, because chances are you will break the frozen little plastic pieces
and then now you're trying to find a replacement part. So have some patience. Thaw it out. Hit the
reset button and you're back up and running. I hope you enjoyed today's video! Give me a thumbs up,
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