Water stopped getting dispensed from refrigerator, all of a sudden :(
Samsung - 29.0 Cu. Ft. French Door Refrigerator with Thru-the-Door Ice and Water - Stainless-Steel
Bought this refrigerator couple years back. All is good, until a few hours ago... as water stopped coming out of the dispenser. Recently (about a month ago) changed the water filter (used Samsumg filter) and all was well until today.
- - Note that water stopped coming out all of a sudden. My wife used it a few minutes ago to get some water... but now no more water comes out of the dispenser.
- - When I remove the filter, water is getting dispensed at good speed, but when I put back the filter (the same that I was using the last 30 days), water stops.
- - I bought a different filter and see the same result. Not even sputtering (the thing that usually happens the first few minutes when a new filter gets inserted)... it's like blank.. no water at all.
- - Can hear the humming sound when the dispenser gets clicked.
- - No leakage.
- - All the other lights on the control panel are glowing.
- - Emptied ice bucket and see that new ice is being made.
Is this a good question?
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Can really use some help here :(
by Bic Mitchum
If you look at the water filter there are two o-rings. That's because one is for water going into the filter (the center o-ring) and the other is for the water leaving the filter (outer o-ring). That means there are two spring loaded valves in the filter housing that allow the water to flow through the filter or bypass when there is no filter. For some reason over time one of them doesn't completely open. In my case it was the water flowing out of the filter. I know this because the new filter was full of water when I pulled it back out. I learned from another online forum that you can put a bead of hot glue around both center surface (don't block the hole) and larger surface. This builds up the face of the filter and effectively allows the valves to open wider.
by Massimo Giovannetti
Mossimo, can you give me the link to the other forum?
Thanks - I'm having the same problem.
by Brandi Turnbow
Hey Brandi, it actually might have been this forum. I might have written in error. I'm still having trouble with mine where the hot glue doesn't stay on. I'm going to try a 5 minute epoxy next.
by Massimo Giovannetti
Screw Samsung and there filter. Just remove filter and replace with a inline filter behind fridge. That's what I did and have no more problems. All Samsung fridges have same problem but they don't care so don't buy their filters.
by Joe
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