Just moved in to a new rental. the fridge has an icemaker in it. Not the sort that passes through the door, it just makes ice and dumps it in to a tray.
This is my first experience with such a machine, and I'm having issues.
When I try to take some ice, all/most of the cubes are fused together into a lovely ice sculpture. It looks kind of pretty, but is worthless for the intended application.
Anybody know what the problem might be?
Too much water seems likely. Depending on the type, there is a white box thing covering one end (opposite side of the ice maker as the fill hose) that should pop off. Inside there should be an adjustment screw for water level (fill time). Without seeing which one you have I cant tell you how to adjust it, but it isn't hard.
Also is it a side by side or top or bottom freezer?
In reply to Rufledt:
Okay, I maybe wasn't clear as I could have been. Your answer would explain why the cubes remain attached in groups of n (where n is the amount of cubes the machine creates at one fill).
So I've turned that down, which should alleviate that part of the problem.
The remaining problem is that ALL of the groups of n cubes are stuck together in one giant lump.
Rufledt wrote: Also is it a side by side or top or bottom freezer?
Freezer on top. GE GIE18ETHERBB is the model. Should be relatively new, as this is a new rental unit.
Stuck together in the bucket? If so, and your ice maker isn't overfilling, there are a few possibilities. One is the cube mold has a liner (that doesn't last forever) that allowed water under, which corroded and now drips water into the tray underneath. It could also be the white plastic thing the fill hose dumps into has some ice in it, meaning the fill hose splashes a little water into the bucket. There are other possibilities but those two are hella common.
And make sure the whole thing is level.
when I get home I can look up the model number
Dr. Hess wrote: And make sure the whole thing is level.
This too, not just the fridge but also the ice maker in the fridge. Sometimes they're installed crappily.
Freezer not cold enough or too empty. Hot things being placed in the freezer.
Ours fuses whenever we have left it too long since we last disturbed the ice. Even if the freezer never gets above freezing, the ice sublimates into the air in the freezer until it is at maximum sustainable humidity, and any moisture that comes in in warmer air when the door is opened condenses as frost on the ice cubes, joining them together.
Yeah, if you leave the ice cubes sitting next to each other long enough they weld themselves together.
My Samsung does this too. It's like the icemaker dumps them before they're fully frozen. But if I go and spread them around after I hear it dump, they'll be fine.
Mine stopped working years ago for no reason that I could tell. Keep thinking that it has to be a simple shut-off that was tripped, but no luck. It still makes a sound like it is trying to make the cubes.
Water dispenser still works fine.
This thread inspired me to fix my icemaker today! Again! I've replaced the mechanical stuff twice already. The coating on the tray tends to disintegrate in around five years and the cubes won't come out and it trashes the mechanism. Somewhere along the way, I had replaced both the sender and the detector boards also, but being unsure if they were the problem, I kept the old boards. This time the unit was flashing a two-blink code. After poking around online and making a lucky guess, I took out the replacement sender board and put the old sender board back in. Whaddaya know? Ice! 
Sometimes this thing is such a pain in the ass I just want to use old-fashioned icecube trays.
What's the freezer temp? Too warm can cause that.
The ice maker in mine has a heater to warm the tray to help release the cubes, and if it's to warm they melt too much and don't freeze quickly enough so they end up stuck together.
I'm assuming the unit sat empty for some period of time between rentals with the fridge running. Dump the entire load and start again. If you use some every couple days, that shouldn't happen much. The bin in my spare fridge bergs up, but the one in the main fridge doesn't because of turnover.
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