 all right guys we're heading to an ice machine call not sure what's going on there it's been a couple years since i've been there but we're gonna take a look at see what's going on if you guys end up enjoying the video if you would please give it a like and share subscribe and all that all right well here it is no ice yep there's no ice let's see what we got going on in here we got a lot of heat going on well this is kind of disgusting plate is not frozen it is cold it's not frozen see if we can get some of this out of the way so we can actually get into it i think that's my writing from 18 i don't use to use a black marker so that's probably not mine this thing's old there's a reason why they say it's not for consumption or whatever on the kind of thing there it's uh we're just packing it around you know ice packs and things like that but still you're having to clean it up a little bit that's going to affect the way it works one time there was a scale sticking there that's my writing from 18 that's not been replaced water pressure it's just got issues with maintenance water filters air filter because i mean as warm as that feels it feels like it's um refrigerants okay which that plate has nothing on it well you got no water coming out it's not gonna do much now one thing you can do with these if you're in a pickle and you don't have one to replace it with you can pop that top over ring and it'll bypass until you get a new one so go ahead and get that in there we also got a new skill stick too that one there's before the filter let's see if we can shut that one off that's pretty tight don't recommend doing this but that skill stick completely gone go figure it's been since 18 i guess i got a sink here see the new one it's a ever pure also it's got that white stuff in there supposedly safe for drinking but it helps get rid of the some of the nasty scale stuff it's in this crappy water all these wells around here or i should say all the water around here is from wells it's not reservoirs it just depends on where i'm at i mean right now i'm in a small town just really depends on where i'm at see what i anticipate is there's a lot of people watch me that are all city people that have no clue what country water is or anything else and it's always kind of funny to me so i feel as though i need to explain it because you never know who the heck's even watching don't know what country's watching don't know who's watching so you feel as though you need to kind of say these things that way people know why you're doing what you're doing and the way this works is there's a rubber seal at the top it just kind of holds it in place and the water kind of passes through it and don't know exactly everything about it but essentially that's how it works now it will leave a rubber thing in there sometimes you need to pull off because that's left over rubber thing sometimes i'll put plumbers of grease on it that makes it easier to spin back together there's also a prong thing down here in the bottom that will match up to help hold it in place go ahead and bleed this filter out that's something i didn't know when i first started you've got to prime these so we put a little hose on that pick up there to the vent and uh you just prime the filter it's supposed to run about five gallons through it probably not a humongous deal if you don't won't kill nobody just get some carbon and stuff in the water some black flakes and stuff so it's best if you do it the way it's supposed to be done they won't have so many problems it's looking a little peculiar it's nice when you have a nice sink soap available stuff like that you're not going to find any soap and stuff like that around here so you got to carry some of the stuff on your truck and that's why i've got my own little buckets or brushes all that stuff these are brittle scare me to death snap the little prongs off on these things they're not in good shape at all you're not going to get all this hard water stuff off it's hard water calcium build up from hell you can see the metal and stuff it's all rusted out and stuff this is not going for award for the most cleanly thing in the world i've got the screw there on top that is scrumptious pull some goodness that's where your brush comes in handy look at it so mainly it's just slime we never killed nobody right away we still got to this part and get in the insides of it now we'll run the cleaner through this and so get the inside stuff as far as the calcium build up i like cleaning the gunk off it first you can see here that twists and then you can pull this thing apart just got some little ring seals in there see how that comes out same thing here it just turns and pops out and that's got a lot of nasty crud in the middle best off to run a brush through the center of it calcium action a lot calcium that's just nasty there we go it's still locked in it's still locked in and what you got there's just stains we'll soak that that means a good soaking which you can see it's just yeah if all i did was ice machines i had the option of stocking my truck the way i wanted it stocked we would have this one the truck this is your water level sensor it actually just maintains a certain level of water hence water level sensor somebody's cleaned it up with a scouring pad a few times and that's because you're not using a chemical cleaner on it i always just round it to the nearest half bottle that gives me enough to flip the sensor soak once they're done soaking i will then scrub a dub the beast with the leftover water at that point look at that see how it's bubbling because it's attacking it that's why if i was to scrub that with the scrub brush and stuff it wouldn't come off but it just absolutely attacks that calcium see how it's almost already completely dissolved everything on there beautiful now the other one not quite as quickly it is getting that pretty good problem is everybody wants to wait and if you just keep it on a routine schedule it won't be a dire emergency then uh say we're about as good as we're trying yet maybe just down here yet this always gets forgotten probably one of the most useful devices is a sprayer keep us for your dedicated cleaning for you know clean water you can get into all these tight spots and knock all that nasty loose crap out and get behind there and break everything loose and sanitize when you're done with the sprayer now when i get finished here i'm going to just use my wet back to sweep the crud out because you're not going to get that out no matter how much you run that pump but i was able to break all this crud loose and then the big thing is don't ever forget underneath here i already scrubbed it with a brush but now i'm rinsing it because all kinds of mold nasty this gets all up underneath here and i broke it loose now we're just spraying it all down and it's the easiest way i mean if you want to get done with this if you hate doing it like i do and you want to get it done quickly then the sprayer makes it so much simpler but you can't obviously use it for chemicals and then use it for ice machine next so you've got to have one dedicated so i've got literally two of these one for chemicals and then another one for ice machines and stuff like this and they're only 15 bucks maybe it's only a gallon so it's not huge but it makes your job easy and i go with a wide pattern for this and also you as you see and i use it for melting water uh the reason or the how i ended up doing this i just heated it up with heat gun or torch and just kept bending it and then held it and put it in cold water and got that curb and you'd be surprised at stuff that hides in the little crevices and it also helps you get it washed down the drain and that's correct it is washed you know in the vacuum probably get that really good too you got grass in there because these kids are using this for their ice packs and stuff like that anybody else have this problem with the little hinge thing getting broken there luckily it's just the piece that mounts on the side with two screws which could be replaced now for those that are like oh my god you're using a sweeper and ice machine let's think about this we still have to sanitize the machine and there's a lot of the crud that we pulled out like all this chunks of rock i think that wonderful everything cleaned out and if this thing's still plugged in there is sometimes voltage available to shock you there so you gotta be careful about should always have your power off just in case you get water into things get this back in i think that screws more than long enough you can screw the neighbors water sensor back on too yeah that's kind of been screwed with as you can tell the knobs all quanked we actually got it back in there and it's square and i didn't have to strip it out to do it and like i said you want to make sure it's perfectly clean in there you can blow it out with nitrogen your Milwaukee blower it works pretty good takes a little while for it's not quite as fast as the nitrogen get this back in here and then we'll run the cleaner this here there is a screw that's busted off on the inside here and the actual plastic piece that's molded around the female and what they ended up doing was ran a screw in their hitter rust but like i said this machine's pretty much about garbage as it is as you can see it's really decent looking now i mean i wouldn't really care to eat out of it but they're not using it to eat out of they're just using it for like i said uh for the sports stuff so got that back in there yeah i don't like that see how that kind of flops it doesn't stay real close to it some of that is to do with the curtain there at the top but we'll go ahead and put it in clean that looks a lot better don't it sure does it's got good strong water flow now you see the water's a little hazy it's probably a little bit left over from the uh water filter back here says use three ounces i go ahead and use a six i believe that they're trying to assume that you're going to clean this thing on a routine basis like you're supposed to but generally by the time it gets cleaned there's such a build up that it's just not strong enough we should hopefully be ready to start doing some stuff here for a long you see that's cracked yeah this machine's just in poor condition that's what we're looking for and as i mentioned this thing does love to go into harvest see the harvest light right there it's on and obviously we're not touching the metal if the harvest light is on it goes away it's still not completely dry so otherwise the stupid thing will go right into harvest again but we can get the water completely knocked out which it's not staying on now but it'll play games with you and you can waste a lot of time if you're not paying attention to that so you put it all back together and you're not watching see look right back at it again a little pain in the butt so it cheated grab my little hand torch and it no longer is staying on basically just there's some small molecules of water that are still stuck on there our plate is heating pretty good even if any things are kind of you know releasing some water because the plate's off so that can screw you so you need just about every bit of what water you got and uh those little fingers put that on there they're about morale i found it quicker just to add some water to it our water sensor is now back on we're still feeding good we're going to go and get this cover on see this thing makes ice i'm getting the heck out of here because this is just the usual thing it's usually water related most of the time or the very least it's refrigerated usually it's water most of the time it's a water related issue and it's just lack of maintenance is the problem you didn't want to do maintenance or if you don't want to pay to do that clean your air filters change your water filters add a conditioning system to it that's recommended for a nice machine and then you won't have to worry about it clean it on the regular intervals which is at a minimum every six months i recommend every three if it's important to you clean it every three months less problems that way it started cracking and stuff like it's doing right now which it just went into harvest as you can see the red lights on that's not a good thing i prefer it doesn't crack like that i went ahead and adjusted it i well my trick is to do a lot of times even if i don't know where things are at on it i will turn it a little bit i'll pull it away turn it a little bit drop it towards it see the thumbs on pull away kind of wait till that first crack and then i'll adjust it till it finally starts to hit and then i'll leave it there and then start over you can go with the default which the default on these is right on inside of this thing some of them they actually got it really well laid out some of them don't i should have started my stopwatch which i could play back the time on the camera but we'll watch this thing it should harvest here and i can feel that it's it's a couple about an inch away three quarters an inch away from the plate it should drop here just like that look at that see the bridge thickness is a little bit thicker than what it should be there but you have nice little cubes and then we'll have to watch it one more time just to make sure we're there but what happens is people don't have ice and the first thing they do is they want to crank that sensor in to get it thicker well what you've done is if you're unnecessarily making it thicker than you need to it's going to run longer which means you're going to get less production because it's going to take longer to harvest yes you'll have more weight but you're also damaging your evaporator at the same time you can follow the manufacturer's instructions which generally i try to stay in line with all those but that's what we had here is we had a plug water filter a missing scale stick to the tore out a plug dirty filter air filter james just plain filthy and uh you know we swept it out you see what we did we basically went through it made everything run the way it should they know they need a new machine i sent the information to our sales guy he's going to get him a price on this machine and one bigger because they said this doesn't uh satisfy their needs because they actually go through a bunch of it really quick i guess the kids actually use this for ice baths and they just eat up a lot of ice but that's it guys if you enjoyed the video like i said thumb up is appreciated don't forget to subscribe instagram and facebook we're there till next time we will catch you on the next one later