Found in my cocktail last night, probably stainless steel, it has a very weak magnetic attraction, probably came out of the ice maker in the fridge.
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Found in my cocktail last night, probably stainless steel, it has a very weak magnetic attraction, probably came out of the ice maker in the fridge.
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end of a link for the ice auger or dump rod?
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might be half (looks broken) of a pivot pin that the cube tray rotates on, or maybe from the 'flap-door' on the fridge door, if the fridge door is involved, or...?
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No silly, it's a dime.
Sorry, it's late and I can't resist.
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The ice maker is in the door, the fridge is only 18 months old. Inspected what I could without taking anything apart and found no trace of a problem and the ice maker still works and still crushes ice. I can't imagine it came out of the vodka bottle.
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Is it a Samsung?Originally Posted by Jim Allen
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No, it's a Kenmore Elite.
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Stranger things have happened because of what came out of a vodka bottle.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that’s not going to happen."
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Usually as a result of what comes off because of the vodka bottle.
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Which means it could be a Samsung. Kenmore is just a name. Kenmore itself was just the brand name Sears put on their private label of appliances - just as the Craftsman name was applied to tools.No, it's a Kenmore Elite.
It does look a whole lot like the ID chip the vet stuck in our dog - but - I doubt that's what it is. I guess my earlier comment crossed a line - sorry.
My guess (serious answer) would be it's something that got into the ice maker during assembly & just worked it's way out.
Who knows these days.
With so much stuff coming out of questionable workshops in foreign countries, you never know for sure.
Every time I read/hear of something odd like this - I think back to a post here at SMC where somebody cut into a sheet of foreign produced plywood and discovered a basket ball of all things. Reports of utility knives in plywood were also numerous.
Anyhow- what you might want to do is take the model number of the appliance to eparts online & look over some parts lists to see if anything there looks like it.
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so I took the pic, upscaled it, and put it in Corel- I sized the 'thing' based on the .705" diameter of a dime, after drawing an outline around it-
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-the size in inches came out to .212" long x .09" thick- this is fractionally very close to 7/32" x 3/32"...
it looks like it's been thru the wringer, several dimples and deformations that took some work to produce, the left edge almost looks like it was torn away from the rest of it-? Pretty sure it's not an IC chip!
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I don't think there's anything in an icemaker that would cause it to look like that, I would suspect this piece to cause the icemaker more damage than vice versa. Maybe part of the fridge assembly process went awry and this has been sitting in the icemaker and finally broke free? Or something similar at the liquor bottling facility?
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THREE- make that FOUR now
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That sounds reasonable. Actual measurements are 0.215" long x 0.082" thick.
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