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Icemaker Limit switch repair

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I have a home soda fountain. The icemaker for the coldplate is a modified icemaker, that uses a limit switch with a little paddle to detect when the ice compartment is full, and therefore stops making ice so the little dump mechanisim doesn't force itself against a pile of ice and break. (this was not my design, soda-parts.com)

The limit switch is basically the weak link in the entire design. Every 6 months or so the innards of the switch break down (from all that water) and the switch fails and no more ice and no more soda and sad me. :) Usually at that point I spend a week or so hacking back together a new switch and trying to bond plastic to the metal tab of the switch for a paddle.

No more! I've printed a small paddle that glues around the switch, and I've done it in a way where I don't have to hack at the switch with a saw. Then I printed a little 90' mount for the switch itself, add some wires, and just plug it back in to replace.

I suspect this device will help a
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Beginner Low confidence
Single piece
Supports 1/3
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Settings 1/3
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Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
PLA
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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