 All right, so we're here on an ice machine. It's been a little while since I've been here but Got a little long dilemma here It's not making ice. So Let's take a look a little look at it here and see maybe why it's not working First thing I noticed a bulb here Looks like it's been bad for At least a year or two or three maybe four And let's take a little peek behind this Yeah, get a nice place up there for the for your stuff to hide Something tells me That didn't just happen I mean as much as I'd like to say it just happened, but I really don't think that just happened. I mean When you have incorrect water flow This kind of stuff happens So we're gonna have to heat this all up With water I Mean that's crappy water. That's like sand feeling to it That's that's really bad and Look down here Screw it. Let's just go ahead and take this down I'll just let it dump down in there. Yep. I am terrific. How are you? Hang it in there. I ran it through a couple of harvests and It's about ready to come lose Better off to put yeah, everything in here is gonna get washed out Washed I'll get washed out A little bit of a tub of thumping there on the side, but You could break that so we got that You know when you clean these out you got to get this stupid thing out of here. I mean That's bull. That's that's some really nasty nasty crap so you've got to Take this three-eighths here Drop that down You got to take this thing completely out You got to get back behind there with your sprayer and clean all that right out of there This is just plain maintenance right here. Just plain maintenance now. I'm growing it now. I'm telling you right now we got We got the UV bulb there to help kill that stuff and we have an Auto cleaner unit here to clean the ice machine automatically and this is still the problem we got There's a lot of yeast in the air But see the difference is this here is sandy Material that's not Not your usual fungus. I mean there's some funky monkey in there But that's not your usual maggot-looking muck so that's That's just Some of that's just horrible water a lot of the water out here in these small towns is from well sourced out of the ground Not done with reservoirs and stuff like that. So we're gonna take that part and here at the top You just got to pull this straight forward Like that and then Come in the backside here. Oh my gosh, there we go See that down there Those are the drain holes from behind the behind the panel That goes all across all that crud is back behind this water panel No one ever gets behind here That's reason why I say that you really need Something like the subcode porta blaster to get in there If you want to make it easy If you don't want to spend forever tearing a stupid thing apart cleaning this kind of crud out you just got to Get all that stuff flushed out I mean look at all the Sun Rings here Say It's not the usual slime though. I Mean it definitely ain't something I'd want to drink out of but All that crap needs cleaned It's just pure clean. That's all they really need just be cleaned Simple simple cleaning got our handy-dandy flip bit here as always guys My tools and stuff like that are all listed down below for the most part Anything that's not sold at TrueTech tools can be found at Amazon Obviously, they all help support the channel but you know that's That's kind of nasty. I Don't think I really would care to lick the bottom of that. I don't know about you This is pretty bad. So There's just really no good reason for that none. This is the underside here. Oh Yeah, it's lonely. Let's all gonna get washed Washed out the bottom Those are the holes all that crud and crevice and nastiness is all gonna get washed out. That's washed WASH washed Washed it's gonna get washed and washed both Yep. Yes, sir. Don't get her. Don't get her good. Gonna get her real good Let's go over here and get the old portable power blast and machine cleaning This is where it rides that man. It rides shotgun right here Thing is tiny Tiny but mighty You know, I really did not think this thing would be worth a diddly squat and I am so glad I got it And it's not expensive Have you seen some of these other ones that are like seven hundred eight hundred dollars? And yeah, they got a battery pack, but you can use a Milwaukee battery pack So I get that I get my five gallon bucket, which this is all a big mess back here So go ahead and judge me if you like my little five gallon bucket It's all customized with my three dollar handle that I made out of rope But we're gonna throw some Dawn dish soap or whatever it is they got in there We're gonna run it right through the machine. We're gonna get that thing cleaned up I mean, you literally can throw it right inside the bucket if you want Check them out. You can pick that up a true tech tools too. Hey, don't forget use the promo code survival to save 8% Support the channel without having to spend a penny out of your pocket I do have a regular sprayer like that and I've got my awesome refrigeration technology one there This truck is a mess There's only so much you can do with it though. Do you got some new stickers here fancy refrigeration podcast you guys in refrigeration? I'm sure you've heard of them by now. Check them out and Each fat crew They sent me a lot of the different stickers there And don't forget to check out overtime and don't forget to check out everything HVACR and usemen HVAC Those are some of my guys I watch if we need it. We've got the little power deal there There you go. I use this just to get the main junk out of there and then We'll use the regular cleaner when we're done Let's get our goodies out Now the other thing I did do to this and I've said it before Say fix this one so you can get up into crevices Supposedly they started making one now. It'd be nice if they sent it to me I ended up using silver solder 40% to do that copper 2 Nameless which it works fine Anyhow We're just gonna use this to Suck it into the machine and we actually got a Power plug right there so that makes it kind of nice and convenient and there's nobody here customer-wise So we can do this about making a humongous mess and getting in people's way Got these screws taken out of there Can't just clean the outside you gotta get the inside and then this piece here I'll just grab a hold of that with your pliers Which looks like somebody else has already done that because they're pretty much missing now So you're gonna have to pry that out with a straight screwdriver Put a little bit of Silicone lubricant on there to pull out a lot easier next time Feels like a sand Oh That crap's gonna come out So nice so nice Now we're gonna clean some of this up obviously with my brush and stuff like that We're just gonna use that same soapy creation here and just scrub it while we're underneath here try and knock some of that crud off of it You can get some crevices here that you need to get just some of that will come off just by spreading it You got to scrub it off That the green goblin there we got this about as good as you're gonna get it scrubbing non-stop on it That's calcium Looks a lot better than I did Some of that you just can't do much with it. It's the cleaner's gonna have to dissolve that. It's rock So we got those pieces there. It's got to get in the main machine It's not gonna get perfect in there either. It's that's like a calcium buildup and it just does not release I'm more worried about fungus Muff slippery nasty snot and stuff like that. I got multiple different brushes. I got a tile brush here Big round brush, and I got that Little baby brush for getting in there, and I've got a toothbrush and use all those different ones Try to get up in these different crevices and just Work your way into it. Some of it's bouncing back at you Got to use that low spray right now I'm just trying to dissolve some of it and then come at it with the scrub brush and then Get it to fall out Whenever it works all that down the drain We just we use the highest pressure from behind here with a pointed nozzle you just Rotate that nozzle to what type of spray pattern you want wide and fanned or whatever as you can see That calcium and crap it's just that auto planer is obviously not working and This machine's been in since 17 So it's going on five years and when you're in horrible water like this the machine's not gonna last very long It's the price of business when it comes to that kind of water Not much you can do about it other than pay somebody to do it maybe every three months When you have a place with this much yeast in the air bread you make bread pizza places sub places This is what happens ready nasty stuff off the backside of that thing cuz it's like a breeding ground You got this one cleaned up a little bit looks a lot better a better than it did by far Okay, so if you need to get into below because you lose something This little nozzle this little right there pops up. Here's your drains that we're gonna need to make sure we flush when we get done That's the front cover right there that needs to come up to be able to get to it All right, so I have scrubbed and scrubbed with a tile brush This crap will not come off That crap down there will not come off They need to invest in an exhaust system to get some of this yeast out of here and do an air exchange of some Sort and bringing some fresh air into the building because there's obviously an issue here From what I'm hearing this thing has had a lot of problems and had a lot of things replaced on it and Unfortunately, just a cleaning machine that they added to it's not going to cut the mustard Honestly This machine needs replaced that plastics etched. I mean when I come in here with my knife and I'm cutting away plastic You're not going to get a clean with a brush Thing needs to sand blasted and at this point it just needs replaced. Sorry Charlie. That's that's where I'm at with it It's gonna make ice. It's gonna be clean. It looks like hell I wouldn't I wouldn't be happy with it, but that's where we're at. So that's gonna be the recommendation I'm gonna go ahead and get it together and get it running so they at least have ice But there's only so much I can do my magic wand I left at home Not a miracle worker. It's at least clean will run sanitize their stuff through it and Get her up and going one hand got it back together. It looks a lot better than it did Just isn't to my quality standard, but there's nothing more I can do with it We're getting ready to add the Fluid to it. I'm not gonna waste my time with my refrigeration technologies on this one. I'll just use this new Calgon Got a bulb ordered so we'll get that and I flashed the memory on it too and I had an update of the software which That should have helped me out for if it wants to freeze again like it did it should go into a one-hour Meltdown or whatever so we just got a this The king of great installs here. You had all this room up here, but you can't Hardly get into anything here if what it is. All right, so we got that in there. Let this thing begin Here it's trying to Yeah, it's the I think a sensor there needed to be adjusted. It was starting to get the point where it's clicking and everything else And that's not good It's going through watching our sensors and our temperatures and stuff like that and it's just It's working, but you know like I told the people that you need better ventilation in this building You need better water filtration system and you might want to consider replacing the machine I'm gonna say it's Friday and we made ice Everything looks pretty normal around here. Go ahead and wrap this thing up guys Well, if you enjoyed the video and you want to see more like it, please make sure you subscribe hit that thumb button Check us out on Instagram Facebook and until next time. We'll catch you on the next one later