Frozen Water Line Tool - 36" - Made in USA - Unfreeze Your Refrigerator ice Maker Dispenser defroster Syringe

BOTTOM LINE: It was what I thought it would be & did what I thought it would do, all for a reasonable price.IF YOU WANT THE DETAILS: Once I figured out that a frozen water line was most likely the culprit & learned about the syringe+tubing + hot water trick (thank you Google & YouTube), I started hunting for a set. Quick delivery availability & cost were my top priorities. The product I received was exactly as advertised/what I expected— a syringe with a length of tubing. And –bonus!– it arrived a little earlier than promised. The syringe is 12cc & has that long, tapered tip with a little curve at the end (if you’ve had your wisdom teeth removed, you know exactly what I’m talking about). As an RN, I’m a bit of a syringe connoisseur & wondered which type of tip they’d send since I couldn’t tell from the product photos. When I opened the package & saw the WaterPik-esque tipped syringe, I thought that was a very clever choice— with the taper, it’s easy to insert into the tubing & then makes a nice snug seal. Some listings on Amazon offer a larger volume syringe, but the additional 4-8cc’s wasn’t worth a few more bucks for me… since this wasn’t going to be a time-intensive task, I figured I could buck up & deal with possibly having to refill the thing an extra time or two. ;) In all, I filled it maybe 5 times total? I did not measure the tubing to confirm it was the length promised, but I can tell you it was more than sufficient for me. Whole procedure was done in a handful of minutes, from unboxing to the thrill of pushing the lever & having water come out the dispenser again (rather than spray out from around the valve connection on the rear of the fridge from excessive back pressure… it’s never a good day when you go to fill a glass of water & it sounds like your fridge is peeing on the kitchen tile floor rather than filling your glass).Simple. Inexpensive. Prompt. Effective. What more do you need?

This worked within a couple of minutes…way easier and cheaper than what it costs for a technician ($200+).At first the line wouldn’t go up very far, maybe a couple of inches, so I was a bit worried. I also had a false start, where I tried to slowly push the water out of the syringe, but water went everywhere else instead of where I wanted it. TIP: I found a quick, powerful pull/push worked best both for filling the syringe and for flushing the line. The second time I inserted the line it went up about 4 inches, and this time water came out afterward as well. I tested the water dispenser and it worked! I flushed the line again just for good measure. It’s working great!A couple of other tips: one guy used a hot pad with double sided tape to insulate his dispenser from inside the freezer (on YouTube). We found ours has a problem with the ice dispenser on the door, but it’s older and we’re not getting it fixed, so we filled the dispenser with a towel because ice crystals formed there. It seems to help.****UPDATE****Several months later the water line is still clear and working perfectly.

I was skeptical this would work based on the pain our fridge has been, but this works GREAT!I've been dealing with an issue off and on for 4-5 years where the water line freezes on our GE french door fridge/freezer and I have to take everything out of the Fridge/Freezer and unplug the fridge so that the water line defrosts. That usually takes at least a 1/2 day and is a huge hassle of having to move everything to our spare fridge and then back into our main fridge. Because of that, we're constantly having to buy bottled water, which has been fun when groceries run out of water during COVID craziness, freezes, and hurricanes.I tried this syringe for the first time this past weekend. I heated a little water in a coffee cup for about a minute and suctioned the water with the syringe. It only took about 3-4 times of shooting that water into the Fridge's water line for the line to get defrosted. Each time I shot water into the line, you could tell it was working because some colder water was trickling out. Suggest having a hand towel ready to catch the water that comes out, which isn't very much.Definitely would suggest trying this out. We've also gotten a repairman out in the past to try to fix the fridge and that would have cost hundreds of dollars, versus this quick easy fix for under $10.

I’ve had many issues with the frozen water line, and it turns out it’s only a matter of inches inside the door. With this tool that falls in the clear less than five minutes!

I saved over $500 because I didn't need a tech to come out and fix the frozen lines for my water and ice dispenser. Plus, it works great on cat discipline!

Bought this after reading about it online. Paid a repairman $150 to fix our frozen waterline the first time. Used a hair dryer to heat up the door. Took forever and was obviously expensive. Lasted about a month before it froze again. Tried the hairdryer myself. No joy. But this little baby got the job done! Wasn’t fast but it was easy and cheap. And I can use it over and over.

Let's be clear about what this tool does. It takes hot water into a syringe and then pushes that hot water into a tube that can then make sure that the hot water gets to the frozen blockage in your fridge line. The problem here for me is that this tube is too large in diameter so the water isn't able to get to the frozen blockage. When I insert the tube into the water dispenser the tubing completed blocks any avenue for the water to get out. As a result the rest of the hot water in the syringe can't get to the frozen blockage. As I push the line into the fridge, not even air can escape and it pushes back on my plunger.This tubing needs to be smaller so that I can slowly add hot water next to the blockage and it has room to come out of the dispenser line. Maybe this product works for people who don't have a line as frozen as mine, or maybe their water dispenser is larger than mine but I can't get the water up there.

I shoved boiling water up the water line as instructed for 20 minutes and it never worked. What worked was turning the freezer temperature up by a few degrees for one day.