written by on 04/06/2011
I've had this FF nearly 5 years and after about a year experienced the icing issue reported by MANY people. After a couple of fruitless "dismantle and defrost" attempts I discovered that the CAUSE of the problem in my unit is the small black drain pipe which exits to a tray at the back of the FF (accessed from outside at the back).
Instead of being circular, this pipe was crimped shut at the end and was simply not draining out and had collected some debris, causing water to back up into the freezer section and icing followed ... my simple solution was to chop a small section off the end of this pipe, clean it through with a bent skewer and open it out using a couple of cms cut off the casing of a biro :) So far it has been working trouble free for the last 3 years, and bar this design flaw seems to be a decent unit!
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Written on: 15/04/2012
Thanks for this suggestion...I've just tried it. The pipe was closed and opening it back up was a fiddly job but it immediately started dripping once I had done so. Fingers crossed this works for me!