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Re: Anyone know anything about icemakers?
Matt,
I'd try two things first (to verify that's the problem and that it works after the grid wire is fixed).
1) take it to a high tech welding shop (may some jewelers who do repairs and make custom jewelry) and try to get the broken part welded/brazed/whatever back together
2) get a crimp on un-insulated butt splice and crimp it back together
If 1) can be done and it works afterward, you are done, for probably less than 20 bucks.
If 1) cannot be done, and 2) makes it work, then see if you can find a used ice maker like that (probably less than 50 bucks) and take the grid out of it, or, if 1) tells you 'I could fix it if I had a short piece of that special wire', then you now have 'a lot' of that special wire (because that grid may also be bad, but all you need is a short piece of that wire, so who cares).
Worth a shot anyway.
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