Every fridge I've serviced, the temp control is in
refrigerator section. Other than that, sounds like a good
fix.

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"Chip C" wrote in message
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Weird coincidence, the fridge part of our bottom-freezer
"dual temp"
Maytag has been getting too cold over the past week, too.
While I was
coming up with an improbable, over-complicated explanation
about
condensation and evaporative cooling, my wife took it apart
and
figured it out.

On this model, the airflow from the freezer into the fridge
is
moderated by a rectangular spring-loaded damper, way at the
top back
of the compartment, which is moved by a plunger driven by a
mechanical
thermostatic mechanism offset by the fridge's temp dial.
This is all
hidden behind plastic bezels.

What had happened was the damper's spring had come unhooked
and the
damper was hanging wide open, allowing freezer air to flow
freely into
the fridge.

(On these models the freezer has its own temp dial, which
controls the
actual compressor cycle; so no matter how we dialed the
fridge the
compressor kept running and freezing both compartments. On a
single-
dial appliance, turning down the dial will reduce
compressor
operation, which is why your tenants can get it into a
not-cold-enough
mode if they dial it down enough.)

My wife hooked it back up (without dropping it into the air
channel,
as I would have) and hey presto, back to normal.

Chip C
Toronto