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Saved me from buying a new fridge thank you

Just encountered this problem after the 5yo refrigerator was off during a power failure. The foam must be a little 'crisper' when cold/frozen. The actual problem is that the door can't close tight enough for the mechanism to transition to open. The hesitation is the door trying to close and bouncing back.

this is exactly what i want to do - the problem is here in the uk, anything like dye, lacquer etc costs a small fortune. gonna have to bite the bullet

1955 here Most of this is 100% true for me.. We had TWO TV channels for years, I remember having one phone, but we didn't have a party line. The thing was we didn't know anything different. Improvements came slowly. I started delivering papers by 5 am. I kept my route through high school and by the time I quit it was so bad I was often late to school. Sewage went straight to the rivers until the 1970s. Laundry turned yellow on the line. AM radio was tons of fun to listen to. There was a lot of negatives as mentioned in the vid, but I remember those days fondly. Kids could roam freely, too, without fear of being molested or shot. Got into fist fights, though. I still love B&W photography, TV and movies.

That was excellent!

The damper on my old Amana fridge is not electric, it has no wires and the thermostat is integrated into it. There is a push rod coming out of the thermostat that pushes the spring loaded door open when it becomes warm. The fridge got too warm and I saw the damper was closed with the knob at max cool. There was an adjustment screw on the bottom and I turned it until the door opened slightly. Now the fridge is a little too cold. I'm curious if anyone knows about adjusting these and if it's just trial and error. The replacement is no longer available, part # R0161050 made by Whirlpool if anyone is curious and want to see what it looks like.

I ordered the damper assembly then saw your video. I tested with my home-made AC cable as you suggested and found that it stuck shut. My wife used a blade, surgical tweezers, and a Dremel tool to trim the edges of the Styrofoam to allow for a more complete closure. Now it tested OK. We replaced it and it is working perfectly with no parts required! I can cancel the order.

I'll join the legion of others. This totally worked, and you also saced me money. I'm actually a gas service tech and have always been a strong believer in fixing the part, instead of replacing it.

Instead of supporting China and buying multi bad guitars . That you have to mess with, why not buy one good one? I don’t understand anyone who reaches for the bottom of the barrel for musical instruments. Probably the same with Amps and everything else. And have bottom of the barrel tone to go with all that, bad frets and fretwork, bad nut and tuners, must be pure joy to play? Invest a great deal of time, hard work, and study with my guitars, I support USA manufacturing, and small USA business. Anything less would be shamefully short sighted.

I replaced the entire damper assembly on my fridge and it is still not working. What Now

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Good job

This isn't the first video I've seen of this, but a good illustration of what is done, and also the safety precautions. I almost purchased the Easy Flux Titanium at $20 off last week for $129, but waited. I had my Amazon cart up to $98 just to do the conversion.....overkill.....lugs, crimping tool, 4 gauge wire, $23 rectifier etc..... This can get me there without all of that. But I really like the demonstrations of that Titanium DC welder.....strong welds! Thanks!

I tried this on my '15 Frontier, but the feed from the camera is garbled on the screen, maybe the cheap camera I bought isn't compatible

At around the 2 minute mark, the guy says 3.5 inch pvc has an outside diameter of 3.5 inches. I think he meant to say 3 inch pvc has an outside diameter of 3.5 inches.

Absolutely worked! Amazing. Please note, YOU DO NOT NEED TO TAKE EVERYTHING APART! Now that we know it is the foam, take the control unit off and simply remove the damper door. There are 2 small hinges - use a flat screwdriver to punch one out and slide the door out. Cut 2mm of foam to be flush with the plastic edge. Score foam where the damper meets the other side plastic (use the cut foam as a template). Put back in by sliding along the path already cut into the plastic housing. Worked like a charm! Thank you again for figuring it out!

This is what you tube was meant for! You just saved me over a 100 bucks. Thank you for pointing out such an easy and simple solution. My gears are also in perfect condition and the motor works just fine. Funny how just a mm of a difference can throw a mechanical piece off course. Makes you wonder how many perfectly working dampers have been replaced over the years just because of the foam. What a racket!

Thanks !

Thanks for this video! I need this and was wondering just how it would work. I’m looking at the battery version.

Do you have a reference on how to get into or use the service test mode? I have two of these fridges and have been chasing down problems including poor defrost drain design damaging my floor/trim, fridge not cooling, weird grunting noises, etc.

Thanks so much for this

Great video thanks for sharing. I could not figure out why mine was staying shut so I wedged a plastic tuning I cut to keep the door from shutting closed. It now gets cold but may have to tape half the damper shut to avoid freezing the food in the fridge. 😂

So true on the 3" lineset cover. The struggle to get it to fit is not worth the slight cost savings. Def go up a size on the cover.

I simply adjust the bracket that holds the safety prime to the right angle . Loosen the bolt holding the bracket and move the bracket in small increments until it feeds correctly .

I have watched several videos about my side by side fridigare, which looks like yours. And, most of the videos helped me to start the diagnosis by testing all the possible causes. Honestly, it was kind of fun until I thought it was fixed. Once I pulled the damper and realized it was actually the cause of the fridge getting warm, I took it apart but found nothing obviously cause the damper to stay closed. I searched the web and the title of your video caught my eye. You explained stuff so even I could follow. I tested just like you showed except without the alligator clips. After I trimmed the foam, I was so excited to see if mine would also work. OMG IT WORKS. I got so excited I forgot that I had live wires in my fingers. The crack scared my wife and dogs but I didn't care. You saved me enough money that I can put extra gas in my bike lol. Sorry its such a long story. From Columbus Ohio I thank you very very whole bunches!

You are THE MAN. Wish i could throw you a few bucks to thank you. I have a Crosley Conservator which is a rebadged Frigidaire side by side like yours. I heard that weird noise and thought a dog was barking next door but realized finally it was the fridge. Then the beeping and the flashing HI. Took it apart, shaved the foam, reassembeled, and we appear to be golden. Amazing and THANKS!!!

When input is from the bottom, does it matter which side is the output?

Honestly I went into this skeptical but you genuinely saved me thank you so much for the video! Fridge works like brand new!

We did this last night and it worked!!! Thank you!!!

YOU ARE AMAZING! What a great video. Yes the Orbit mechanism is genius...but so are you. Thank you for the video, diagrams and sharing you knowledge.

Sir, thank you very much for sharing your experience with this tool and how to put it back. I’ve had this Lee system for a while, and as you point out, it has never worked really well. I watched your video and decided to make the change you indicate. Miracle, it works perfectly, I just recharged a hundred cartridges of 38 special and no incident or primer that falls. Simple, fast and easy to do, super effective modification, thank you very much for sharing. This tool was stored for 3 years... it will relive.

If you wanted to darken rosewood a little, could you just skip the tape and do the whole thing in one swoop?

Primers are certainly too expensive nowadays to be chucking them on the floor!

You're nuts

I don't know where you got your information, but your interpretation is heavily slanted!

As a Boomer I grew up during the 70's You are so full of crap it isn't funny Lowest gas prices I can remember was 34 cents a gallon Kerosene was 10 cents a gallon Minimum wage was $ 1.65 an hour If you wanted a job you could find one Kraft Mac and Cheese came out 4 boxes for a dollar We weren't rich But we sure got by

Thank you for the fond memories and reminding me how good we had it back in the fifties and sixties!

Born in 1958. Are you trying to tell me I was suffering my whole childhood and didn't even know it? The thing I remember is for the price of a small bag of popcorn at a modern movie theater a family of 4 could each purchase a large bag of popcorn plus a ticket to a double feature. The movies back then were 10 times better than the Woke cr@p they force down your throat today, and you didn't have to sit through an hour of advertising, the sound system didn't blow out your eardrums either. We might have only had a maximum of 3 TV stations but the total amount of quality content available was exactly the same as right before I cut the cable 10 years ago when there were over 100 channels. We weren't bombarded with fake man made climate emergencies, fake feminist patriarchy theory, misinformation and disinformation. Social media didn't exist and we had genuine right to privacy. We didn't have Covid lockdowns and vaccines that made us sicker than the disease itself back then. When driving at night you could literally see through the next 10 cars inline ahead of you, the windows were vertical front and back and even the pickup truck windows were same height, didn't matter the vehicle model. You forgot to mention all gasoline contained Lead.

I was born in 1952. It wasn't quite that bad. We had a lot of freedom and kids were generally safe and could run and play with other kids all day long. There were vaccines for polio and smallpox, and antibiotics like penicillin worked. Our toothpaste had fluoride from the early 50s. The worst thing was probably that our parents tended to shelter us from knowledge of ugly things like dark matters. So when we were coming of age as teens, we became the victims and guinea pigs of the older generation who used us in every way imaginable, mass drug experiments, a horrible war where the average age was 19, sex exploitation of girls on a level never seen until then, and so on. We were generally good kids, and our parents with all their faults, were generally good people.

Ah, the good old days...

Yeah. It was great in 50s and 60s. And if you believe everything you hear here then I’ve a good plated yo-yo to sell you.

Heck, you could smoke in your college classroom, and the professor almost certainly did. My Dad did when he taught at a university. Delivering newspapers was a great way to make money when you were a kid, and taught you the basics of finance and personal responsibility. I will say that I really like air conditioning. We didn’t have it at either home or school. You’d come inside after an hour of playing and you sweat for another hour. But maybe it was better when each home had only one phone.i don’t think it was true that there was a good chance a guy would get drafted when he turned 18. Neither I nor any of my friends worried about it and none of us got drafted. The war in Vietnam for us was only on television, and as a kid you never watched the news unless there was a space flight going on. And three channels was plenty. Kids only watched TV when they got home from school and on Saturday mornings. The rest of the time when you weren’t doing homework or chores you were playing outside - unsupervised.

Nailed it.

Got your butt beat at school too. The teacher, the coach, the principal and a few school yard bullies. If word got back home you were beaten by anyone of these you got a whipping for misbehaving or for letting bullies tear your clothes or busting your lip.😳

you didnt have to do the vetting to get a job like you do now.

6to 8thousand dollars to go to disney

Thank you. I am so tired of hearing how easy we had it.

Early 60's midwest gradually we got a second and third T.V. station. Color T.V.s were almost the price of a good used car. All good though compared to the botched Polio vaccine that gave many of us minor lifelong polio disabilities. Many kids with fingers instead of arms from thalidomide. Blind kids from too rich oxygen incubators. Passive cigarette smoke everywhere with enriched with radiation from above ground nuclear tests. At war from 1960 to 1974, draft dread. I could whine on. I miss being able to walk around town without getting shot at from a car.

Pretty much all true and then some.

Those were the days. Walking to the morning bus stop in thick fog. If you found the bus you would sit on the upper deck in the damp air with the smell of factory workers suds choking you in a cloud of smoke from their Woodbines and Senior Service as you tried to enjoy your Frys Chocolate Cream bar while listening to the BBC home service on your A.M. transistor radio through your single mono ear piece....