Hello /r/ApplianceRepair...
I really hope you can help me because I'm about to lose my mind (or my wallet).
I have a Galaxy Fridge, model number 106.55622500. Here is the label on the inside:
A couple months ago, for no apparent reason, it just stopped running. I didn't realize it for a day or so but the temperature kept getting warmer until I realized it wasn't refridgerating anymore. Luckily a have a garage fridge, so I was also to salvage what I could out of the main fridge into the garage fridge.
Now empty, I started trying to figure out what was wrong with the fridge. It was still getting power so it wasn't a fuse or something. I unplugged it and plugged it back in, nothing. Unplugged it and let it sit for a while, plugged it back in, nothing. OCCASIONALLY it would click back on seemingly at random, but stop running again anywhere from 20 minutes to a day later.
I had my girlfriend's dad look at it who suggested maybe it was the capacitor. We ordered a couple of parts for it, that were slightly different than what was there but combined seemed to work:
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Somehow or another with these parts it started running again and we thought it was fixed! I went to dinner, came back, still running. Woo. I put a fridge thermometer in it, woo. Got up the next morning, still running and cold! Yay! Went to work, had chinse for lunch, came home after work and went to put my chinese away - not running. Temp shows around 50*.
"GOD DAMN IT," I yelled, and slammed the door. It clicked on and started running.
Huh?
I played with this and discovered that sometimes - not every time - that I slammed one of the doors, it would click on and start running again. I could do this semi-consistently when it stopped running.
I had my friend come over who assembled industrial refridgerators so there's some overlap of knowledge. We took some more things apart and he looked at things but wasn't really sure either, until he tapped the underside of the control area with the temperature knobs (inside the fridge side, at the top, where the light is) and it started running again.
So we took that apart and discovered a little box with some gears in it, apparently the Defrost Timer. For the next few days, when the fridge stopped running, a gentle tap on this box and the fridge would instantly come back on again.
SO OH MY GOD WE FIGURED IT OUT
So I ordered this: http://ift.tt/20201R4
A week later, the wrong part came in the mail. Different model number, it has a ground wire coming out the side of it, and the hours say "8 hour 21 minute" not "10 hour".
I tried it, it didn't work, I emailed them, they sent out another part which I got yesterday. Same part. Here's some comparison pictures:
http://ift.tt/1XjjoWD http://ift.tt/20208Mz
I emailed them again and they just said "Sorry due to an error we don't have the right one, we'll refund you."
Hopelesly I threw in the NEW wrong part just to see. I tapped the timer and... IT CLICKED ON
The fridge ran all evening without any drama. It stopped running and I checked on it, it was just above freezing in the fridge side. Good! It started running on its own a few minutes later. In the freezer, the ice cube tray was totally frozen. GOOD! IT'S FIXED!!!!
Except this morning when I got up it wasn't running and the temperature inside was 50*.
I'm like... exasperated. I'm so frustrated with this fridge I want to set it on fire and throw it into a river. Like, I know it's not totally screwed because IT DOES WORK, but why can't I just fix it!?
Sigh. I hope someone has some ideas. :(
edit: Here's what the inside of that control box looks like, with the defrost timer on the right: http://ift.tt/1XjjjCo
Submitted May 17, 2016 at 09:35PM by gilligan156 http://ift.tt/2020anC appliancerepair
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