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Not too long after I replaced the fan, another part decided to fail. I thought it was the pump at first but after replacing that and it still not working, I was pretty stumped.

I did some YouTube research and found out that the moter that drives the basket to dump the ice out and store the water inside uses two limit switches. The one pictured is the one that's busted.

I forgot to take a photo of it after fixing everything up (was honestly very excited to have figured it out and fix it again) but after replacing the switch, it started making ice again!

Cost me about $20 total, 14 for the pump and 6 for some limit switches which I could've gotten cheaper but wanted the faster shipping to get this done. Happy GF, happy me.

I got this entertainment center from my roommate when we went our separate ways and I dont remember why this shelf didnt have the brackets it came with or if this shelf even was made for this but regardless, it made using this shelf a hazard.

Any time I tried to put something on it, good chance it would fall off due to it only resting on the pegs without any way to secure it.

So first thing I did was use digital calipers to set the size of the peg and make a prototype shelf bracket. First iteration was ok, but not great. it spun in place making it hard to align it with the shelf, and the lip I added didn't stop it from sliding backwards. Unfortunately lost that peice so that one is not pictured.

Attempt 2 was to make the lip higher and it did work better, but the spinning problem was still there.

Attempt 3 was just finding the distance between the peg holes and printing a part that had 2 pegs connected together to prevent the bracket from moving. This took me 3 prints but I got there eventually. After i made sure that worked, I printed what I thought would be the final version and it was pretty damn close.

The only issue was I didn't account for the length of the glass, so the glass didnt fit on my brackets. I also realized that I made the material way thicker than needed to connect the two pegs together so I fixed that as well.

I then 3d printed a final set of two brackets for the front that extended the lip out so that it would rest nicely and I nailed that part first try which felt incredible.

Now this shelf doesnt move AT ALL. Its so much sturdier and nice to use. I bought a AV reciever which is what sparked this whole endeavor. I really tried to just set it up and let it be but trying to get this heavy receiver on this shelf without it falling made it a pain and I felt if I let it be, this glass would end up breaking which I didn't want.

For anyone curious, its a Denon 1910. I wanted this so that I could eventually get surround if I wanted but mostly for a center channel and maybe a sub for my TV setup. Me and my girlfriend are watching more movies and TV recently and the movies especially make me want better sound.

I may do another post about making a shelf for the other side. Right now, only one side has a shelf. Cable management rakes or something may also be a fun project just to make the wiring not such a nightmare.

And of course I'm installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

He's making sure no one sneaks up on me while I'm cooking. Hes doing a good job.

Thinking I should get him one of these, he looks so happy.

My girlfriends icemaker suddenly stopped working the other day and since I had a day off today, I figured I could try and fix it.

After some troubleshooting, it seemed like the fan stopped working, so I grabbed an old PC fan that just so happened to be the same size, wired it in, and presto, one less thing in the landfill and a happy gf.

I do love an easy fix.

He just got his first shot of arthritis treatment. Vet said he looks great for 17/18 years old, but we hope that the arthritis treatment helps him be more comfortable walking around. So far it has.

My partner is an artist and has a corner of the apartment for her art stuff. He found this bottom section of her art cart to be comfy. We put a blanket down for him so that he would be more comfy.

Even at 17, he still runs around every so often because he must. So when that happens, good time to play with him.

Hi all, using Pop!os on my main machine and have Windows on my work PC. I use a KVM switch to go between them.

This works pretty well for the most part but one thing that's annoying is when the KVM is set to the Windows PC, and I turn on my main PC, it will turn on, but it won't output to any monitor after I switch to it.

When the KVM is switched to the main PC before booting, it boots and displays to my 3 monitors without issue.

I assume this is due to my main PC trying to find an output and if it can't find one, just boot without, I just don't know how to change that behavior and searching online for documentation or similar issues hasn't gotten me any results unfortunately.

I'm using Wayland as well if that makes a difference. AMD 7700 XT GPU.

It seems this would be managed by systemd?I'm still learning the more in depth technical bits with Linux so please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm all about trying to learn.

Howdy all, so I've been looking to buy a 3D printer for a while now and now that I've got some money for it, ive been looking at the Ender 3 V3 SE as it seems to be a good sub $300 printer from the reviews.

However, I've heard that there were some bed leveling issues with it after a firmware update and I've been trying to find information if this has beem fixed or not yet.

So to anyone that has an Ender 3 V3 SE, has this been resolved? Is it ongoing? If it is, I'll likely buy something else as I'm just getting into 3D printing and I'd rather not tinker with it a ton.