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Hi Jim, A few years ago I worked at an apartment complex where that was a common problem. All the refrigerators were 10 years old (the age of the complex) and cheap---cost only $400 to replace. I didn't know about hanging the copper wire down the drain but we did the other things that people have advised you. The second (and final) full year that I worked there the failure rate of units with problems went up to nearly 50%---they just couldn't be fixed doing what had usually worked previously. If you disassemble the freezer compartment to defrost and to remove debris, pay attention to the order in which things come out and to which screws go where. If you install the floor and back and baffles in the wrong order, you have to take them back out before you can get everything back together. Also, you can make the long screws work where the short ones came from, but not vice versa. Years ago I had a self defrosting fridge that stopped self defrosting. The fastest easy way I found to defrost it quickly enough so that I could leave the food in the refrigerator compartment was to take all the food out of the freezer, put a trouble light in, and close the door. After an hour or so I could take out all the chunks of ice that had been in the freezer compartment, and a few hours later the ice on the coils and behind the back baffle would be melted. All the best, Stan
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