As I was cleaning the rear and the coils, I noticed the copper tubing coming from the water source was... HOT. Since the refer was installed years ago by "professionals," I did not pay attention to the details. It seems that they tapped into the HOT water pipe instead of the cold water pipe.

I got concerned when I went to Lowes and Home Depot to find a new external replacement filter. When I read the instructions on every one of them including on the Frigidaire INTERNAL filter, they all said the same thing: Not to be used with water over 100-degrees F.

Uh oh. :eek:

I don't think this has anything to do with the hot water coming from the cold water dispenser because for ten years, it worked fine - but boy did it have to work just to get the water cooled down.

So my original question still stands. Meantime, as I said above, I cleaned the coils with the fancy new Frigidaire brush. Not much fuzzy stuff, but they are cleaner now anyway. I hope you all have some ideas.

Thanks again,
R