OK, this story starts way back in the States before we even went to orientation. We went to Sears to buy a refrigerator to put into the crates that we were shipping to Africa. Our sales lady told us to wait and come back on a certain Sunday night as they were having a special sale and it would save us money. My concern was would we get it on time. She checked and didn’t see any reason why we wouldn’t. So that Sunday night came and we drove down to the Sears in Greenville, SC and ordered our fridge. One problem, all the refrigerators sitting in the warehouse had ice makers in them. We wouldn’t be needing an ice maker in Africa. Yes, one would be nice but how do you hook an ice maker up in Africa with filtered water. A fridge without an ice maker could have be shipped to us but it would have been after we had packed up the crates. So we paid the extra money for a fridge with an ice maker and shipped it to Africa.
About two weeks ago my friends husband – now he IS a MacGyver- tells us you really should have that thing working. Just put a bucket of filtered water on top of the fridge and run a hose down. So at the beginning of last week while this friend and Steve were in Lusaka, Steve got a plastic siphon hose. It was a great fit, but no water was getting into the ice maker. So after Steve put this all together and it is not working, he decides to consult the owners manual. It needs 30 psi. So as Steve does when something doesn’t work he thinks on it for awhile. That night while trying to go to sleep he came up with the idea of using a garden sprayer. So he got a new one and hooked it up. Now our ice maker makes ice. Steve fills it up with filtered water and once or twice a day he pumps the pump to add the pressure.
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