Icemaker Limit switch repair by garbled

Last crawled date: 4 years, 12 months ago

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 grand total of 1 person, but I'm putting it up anyhow, just in case. The limit switch used is a gnber switch, so maybe the mount will help someone.
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/dEcHHYJVg5G-gnber-limit-switch-mount-90https://www.tinkercad.com/things/lfGrudSce3E-limit-switch-paddle