Several weeks ago, after having a new water heater installed in our home, the automatic ice cube maker in our freezer stopped working. Now, I like things simple. I prefer the standard blue ice cube trays that NEVER fail to produce wonderful uniform ice cubes. However, my wife was pretty frantic about the situation.
Well, given that the ice cube maker stopped working after our water was temporarily shut off to install the water heater, I checked the water flow in the tube that goes from the water supply beneath our kitchen sink to the freezer. It looked to me like water was flowing properly. I even took apart the back of the freezer to make sure that the little water pump to the ice cube maker was functioning. It looked OK to me, but I am no mechanical expert. I then gave up for a couple of weeks.
We functioned well without the ice cube maker. In fact, we endured a heat wave. One day, my curiosity got the best of me. I shut off the freezer and removed the ice cube maker. My intention was to let it defrost and then replace it in the freezer. It sat in the kitchen sink for nearly a day. Then, while drying it off, I noticed that the device looked jammed. The part that turned to force the ice cubes out was off kilter. So, I gently bent some of the plastic parts back to where I thought they should have been. I replaced the ice cube maker in the freezer and went outside to mow the lawn in very hot and humid conditions.
About an hour later, my wife came running out of the house looking like she had just won the Megabucks lottery. She informed me that the ice cube maker was working.
I am a complete putz when it comes to mechanical aptitude. So, the fact that I was able to get the ice cube maker working without breaking it or electrocuting myself is proof that God exists.
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