I mentioned some of these would be sooc, right? Well this is one of them. Some photo’s you just can’t dress up no matter how many Photoshop Actions you use.
Two weeks ago I went on a business trip and came home only to discover our 5 year old refrigerator had broken just that day. It was making a horrible “water torture” type of repetitive noise, which I quickly figured out (thanks to a Google search) how to turn off. Unfortunately turning off the outside water/ice unit also caused the temperature to increase by about 20 degrees or so in the freezer and fridge. So it’s not been cold enough to make ice, and while it’s kept the fridge contents “cool”, it’s not been cold, which how I like my milk and beer thankyouverymuch.
So after some additional research on my model, I discovered pretty quickly that the circuit board on this model goes bad after about two years. Ours took five years, but it definitely went bad. Major kudos to Maytag by the way, which as soon as I notified them of the problem, they said they’d send me the replacement part, then I could call in when I got it, and they’d schedule a repair guy to come out free of charge. But here’s the thing… I think it’s been well documented that I am not a patient person, so when I found out it would take another week for repair guy to fit me into his schedule, I decided to give it a go myself. How hard could it be, right?
So this is me, behind the fridge and about to install the new circuit board (excuse the manner of dress, it was hot back there). And you know what. I did it! To say I’m pretty spankin’ proud of myself is an understatement. I think I’ll buy myself dinner instead of making it as a suitable reward for tonight’s handy work. :-)
An up close view of the circuit board… I knew you’d want to see this:
And it works – YEAH!
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