Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine or advice forum.
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions, identify objects or get advice. We accept very few questions, and they must be over topics much more difficult than what is easily discoverable with a search. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. Not hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
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The YouTube videos that I watched said it's around $285 in parts, and those were already years old when I watched them. It's the kind with a sealed box inside of the refrigerator that feeds into a dispenser on the outside of the door. I can't even get the thing open because it's frozen shut. I tried to defrost it and it beeped every 10 seconds for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes I couldn't stand it anymore and stopped the defrost process. I guess I could start it up before I leave the house or something, but idk, if there's a heating coil involved then that might not be safe with a malfunctioning appliance.
it takes a few defrost cycles to get the old one out. The first time I did it I bought a kit from Parts Dr which replace the board, the ice maker, and other components and that does seem to be $300 now. That lasted for a year and now every year or so I get just a new ice maker off Amazon, the one I last purchased currently is $100. I'm not sure if doing the whole replacement the first time around helped or not.