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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I spent a few years working on GE refrigerators in the early 70s. Yours looks familiar, but I don't know it's vintage. Anyhow, I NEVER had a call where the thermostat went out. 99% of calls were one of the first five below. The first five you can diagnose yourself.
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Years ago I had a great fridge that I bought used. It stopped making things cold. I found an appliance repair guy that came out and checked all the things on your list, and all was fine. Then he checked the thermostat. So he removed the thermostat and the probe went from one side of the fridge, up over the freezer and down the other side. He said "in all my years I have never seen that before" so he got it out, went the parts store and got the exact part, installed it, and it was a bad part. Once again he said "in all my years I have never seen that before" so off to the parts store he went. They had a second one and he got it exchanged. They bench tested it at the parts store. The second one was bad. So once again both he and the parts store guys said "in all my years I have never seen that before". They tested the last one in stock and it was good. He got it installed.
So I got a total of four "in all my years I have never seen that before" on repair from experts. My personal record.
What I loved about that fridge is is had an cold air outlet in the corner near a shelf. If I put a beer right in front of it it would chill it to have just a few ice crystals in it. Never freeze the beer, but just the perfect cold.