Our old "Garage Refer" was found warm a week ago. Took a while, but I discovered what I assume to be the defrost timer behind a small hole in the control panel. Twisting it institutes a reset, and the machine will run for a day or two before warming up again. It will freeze a tray of ice pretty quickly, and cools fine while it is cooling. I'm thinking that the defrost timer is turning the machine off, but failing to restart it when cycle is up. Is it safe to assume that this timer is defective, and that replacement of this part will cure the problem, or might I have more significant problems? Machine is WELL over ten years old, actually closer to thirty, but hasn't given us any problems since it was "retired" to the garage probably twenty years ago. It's clean, modern looking, and worth throwing a few bucks at as opposed to hauling it to the landfill.

Thanks for the help.

DFS