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I know someone who has one  :classic_ninja:  pretty sure he's not willing to part with it :lol:

 
we found a few on Craigslist about a decade ago.  we were going to buy it for the drag car I was crewing on.  in the end, we chose just to buy ice when we got to where we were racing. 

 
I can’t help on the ice machine. But I am a little curious how big are your parties?

 
I don't see the payoff unless you use a LOT of ice.. the power to run them has to eat up any savings...unless you use a LOT of ice... 

 
buy a chest freezer and fill it up....  well then you are halfway there...  all i know is the good ones I've seen are 1500-2000.  You can buy a lot of ice for that. 

 
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My neighbor has one and I have a key to the garage.  I fill up a small trash can and place in my freezer.  When I need ice for the boat, it is right there............................good to have great neighbors.

Also going to the store everyday and buying ice for coolers gets old

 
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Mac said:
If I can't find a decent used one, I'll get something like this.

https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Commercial-Ice-Maker-Supermarkets/dp/B07R81Y1B8/ref=sr_1_17_sspa?keywords=commercial+ice+maker&qid=1647619596&sr=8-17-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExTzFCS1ZBNUhGNklVJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNDEyMTkxVFlXQThQRkVCM0NFJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA5MDUyNTJJUDJXVzQwTVBONlEmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl
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Th old company had one like that. It produced enough ice for us to use for drinking water during the summer. I even used it a few times when going to the dunes.  Here is the thing though.  The ice sucked, not all ice is created equal.  The ice wouldn't last one day. By the time I got to the dunes I would need more ice.

Also the last time that ice maker broke down we had the guy come out to fix it and when he opened it up and I saw the trays that made the ice. That was the last time I used that ice for anything. Guess you are supposed to clean them pretty regularly or they become disgusting, you get to turn them off to do that so you loose a lot of ice when you do that.  

In closing, Buy a big chest freezer and buy ice. Freeze water bottles for the cooler on the boat

 
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I don't like your tone...

I want a freaking ice machine!   :lol:
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Mac, don't listen to these people, they know nothing of which they speak!  I did a commercial ice machine 14 years ago, will never go without one.  Matter of fact, we turned off the ice machine in the fridge at home, never was a fan of the nasty, smelly, cloudy ice the comes out of those things.  Nothing like crystal clear, rock hard ice that comes out of a commercial machine!  I Have a Manitowoc SY0304A, have it sitting on a 400 pound bin... it's been a rock solid machine.  While very true, you can buy a ton of ice for what a decent ice machine and bin cost, it's got nothing to do with saving money.  I'm guessing, if you factor in the initial cost combined with operating and possible repair cost over the life of the machine, I don't think you'll ever come close to breaking even much less saving any money.  But the convenience and ice quality, without a doubt, makes it all worth it, to me anyway.  It was always such a pain in the ass, prepping for trips, flogging all day loading motorhomes, trailers, then the last thing you have to do is load up coolers.  Gotta run over to the store to pick up 25 bags of ice (half way through the trip, have to go into town for ice), haul ass to get it home while it's turning to water, like I said, just a pain in the ass.

We bring a ton of ice with us on trips, load up one 144 quart cooler with just ice, two smaller soft coolers we use in the cars, then have two smaller 50-ish quart coolers, one with beers, one with sodas.  Also line two bins in the fridge freezer with clean trash bags, load them up with ice.  We always have ice filled coolers on every ride, drinks with ice in them at camp, after 10 days in the dunes, always come home with leftover ice.  Plus, I don't wait to the last minute to load up ice chests... I'll do that early on, at my convenience.  That way, everything gets cooled down, then before we hit the road, I drain the ice water out of the coolers and top them off with ice.   

I went with Manitowoc at the recommendation of a buddy of mine who is a HVAC guy with some ice machine experience as well as local ice machine repair business.   

 
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Had a client that serviced them. Be careful on buying a used one. Like MWB said, they need to be cleaned regularly which most people don't do. Most of the failures he deals with are from the lack of cleaning and hard water deposits.

 
MAC, YES ice machine in Havasu house.  

We actully started off with a spare sisde x side frig/freezer in the garage and we took out all the shelves in the freezer and put in a kitchen size rubbermaid trash can and let the built in ice maker make ice and dump into the plastic trash can. 

Only down fall was it you dont dump the ice every few days, the rubbermaid would overfill and when you opened the door you ended up sweeping the spilled ice out of the garage.   

Just FYI, get a good filter for the inlet water line, 2 stage carbon and them 1 micron.  

We also bought a used large redbull 2 glass door refrig and it is in the garage also loaded will all the favorite flavors.  

[SIZE=11pt]Beverage cost are more than fuel bills![/SIZE]

 
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MAC, YES ice machine in Havasu house.  

We actully started off with a spare sisde x side frig/freezer in the garage and we took out all the shelves in the freezer and put in a kitchen size rubbermaid trash can and let the built in ice maker make ice and dump into the plastic trash can. 

Only down fall was it you dont dump the ice every few days, the rubbermaid would overfill and when you opened the door you ended up sweeping the spilled ice out of the garage.   

Just FYI, get a good filter for the inlet water line, 2 stage carbon and them 1 micron.  

We also bought a used large redbull 2 glass door refrig and it is in the garage also loaded will all the favorite flavors.  

[SIZE=11pt]Beverage cost are more than fuel bills![/SIZE]
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