I make ice in a tray then bag it. Easy and free
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They'll probably make that illegal soon.
You'll buy Nestle Ice and you'll like it.
Children died to make that ice! And you just let it melt!?!
In our fridge, the ice maker empties into a bucket that makes ice available outside the freezer door next to the water. The motor that turns the agitator in the ice bucket still works fine, so we can freeze ice in trays and then put it in the bucket and use the door like normal.
We could do that, but we don't because even that is too much of a pain. We actually just take the ice directly from the tray when we need it.
Not sure who needs to know but;
In or around most major cities there are Habitat for Humanity and wholesale resell stores. Either one is a great source for cheap appliances. H4H helps to support a good cause with great deals on things and wholesale resell places are just a great deal for new stuff that retailers couldn't sell but wanted to get rid of.
You will have to do some searching for the wholesale resell places, but when you find one it can be a gold mine for the thrifty that doesn't want used stuff. New snowblowers, lawnmowers, big and small home appliances, tools, and various other things can be had for a fraction of their MSRP.
Amazing! Thanks for the LPT!
I do be loving my sturdy wooden dresser!
Have the same brand. We just used ice trays for a while, while I made some attempts to repair (epoxy together) just the little broken part. Ultimately, I dropped the $300 and it's been flawless since.
If you ask me, ice makers are just another thing to break, but my wife considers them essential.
There is no universe in which you have to pay $3000 for a new refrigerator. Not even a full size French door ice-and-water-on-the-door arrangement.
Don't buy appliances from the big box hardware stores or Best Buy. Just don't. These guys sell at full MSRP/list price all day, every day. I don't care what their advertising says, you are not getting a "deal" there. Your town probably has an independent appliance dealer. Find it, and buy from them.
And yes, don't replace your Samsung with another Samsung. Their appliances are consistently awful. LG or Whirlpool (or any of Whirlpool's myriad sub brands) are probably your best bet for non-premium options.
I've had trouble with LG and despite their reported reliability I read that LG is one of the two top brands for refrigerators that can't hold temperature in a year or two (Samsung was the other). Samsung is the absolute shittiest appliance brand. The previous owner went all Samsung and every appliance has some problem and we've already replaced most of them.
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It costs $75 to DIY. Buy a new ice maker on amazon, it takes about 15 minutes to install if you know what you are doing. I have the same horrible predicament with my Samsung fridge and replace the ice maker every year, as the replacements will also break. It's still cheaper than a new fridge but ridiculous
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.
The "Ice Master" ice maker in my Samsung RF28K9380SR broke about a year after I bought it. I removed the moving parts of the ice maker component and just left it that way. There's constant ice buildup on the remaining cooling rod, but I can easily defrost that with a steam wand twice a year.
We got a countertop ice maker to make the ice and then store it in the tray where the ice used to go. Not ideal, but it works. Needless to say, I won't be buying a Samsung fridge again.
Every person that has replied here says they break in a year. I just want to point out what a terrible company they are to sell appliances that last a year.
I have a GE Opal Nugget ice maker, and it is wonderful! It sits on the counter, and takes up a lot of space, and we go through a lot of distilled water... but the ice is always perfect!
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We had to get a new fridge last year. $250 off FB Marketplace. Side-by-side, stainless steel, huge (to me), ice maker that cranks, all that. Dude sold it because his friend have him an a better one.
Very cool. Do you live in a rich area? We used to get smoking deals everywhere when we rented in a rich area, but we had to move to a more modest area to buy our own home.
FWIW so is ours in our Fisher & Paykel 😭💙
We decided a while back as a family that we will have no Samsung products of any kind in our house. We used to have a shitty fridge and a shitty washer and dryer that I am glad are gone. Although now that I'm writing this comment I am pretty sure there are a few SSDs. Don't tell anybody.
Same here. Other than a couple hard drives we will not have Samsung products anymore when the fridge kicks the bucket. I used to like them, but they've tried so hard to be a shitty spying ad company that I don't want anything to do with them anymore.
Does it freeze over? (I ask because I have a Samsung that freezes over because they didn't seal the compartment correctly during manufacturing.)
It's frozen shut, but no ice is escaping the box. No ice comes out of the box either. It's a solid block of ice in there for all I know.
Yep sounds like the same problem, it freezes over because it's not properly sealed. I reached the same conclusion you did and turned off the ice maker.
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