I paid a little over $800 for it back in 1981. At the time though I would have preferred a chipped ice maker. This one is sized to fit under a counter top in the same place as you might have a single door cupboard and that too was a problem finding, most make hundreds of pounds a day and cost thousands of dollars back then. I expect they are a little cheaper today. If I ever get around to building a bar though it should be well equipped, this thing will make about 50 pounds a day. I used to have to throw a bin or so of ice away every couple of days. Just the thing for a real good party though.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Curtis Delzer To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice Wow, that is what I want to find, a good ice making machine, not an ice maker from a freezer combination. Curtis Delzer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice Max, I have a Scotsman ice maker in my basement which hasn't been connected for about 18 years left over from my clinic which works exactly as you describe Max. There is an adjustment for thickness but mine makes cubes about inch and a half square by from half inch to maybe an inch thick according to how the adjustment is set. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:05 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice I once got a tour of a restaurant's ice maker. There was a large, about 3 by 3 feet, sheet of stainless steel. It was at about a 45 degree angle inside the cabinet. It was the surface of the evaporator. water was pumped over it continuously. The water froze forming a sheet of ice on the surface of the plate. It gradually got thicker and thicker and when it was thick enough a sensor triggered the following actions. The compressor stopped and a heater warmed the plate. The sheet of ice slid off onto a series of wires running in the direction the ice sheet slid. These had some electric current flowing through them and quickly cut through the sheet cutting it into long square rods of ice. These then fell onto a second set of wires running in the other direction. This cut the rods into little cubes of ice which then fell into the holding box from which the restaurant workers could scoop out as much ice as they needed at the moment. Because the water flowed continuously there was very little dissolved air which is mainly what makes ice cloudy. The cubes were about a half by a quarter by a quarter inch. Technically not really cubes. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "tunecollector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:50 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice > Not that I can tell now but I wondered how restaurants and bars get their > ice so clear while the cubes out of my freezer are so cloudy. I had > tried > various experiments to obtain clear ice cubes but, alas, no luck. How do > they make that ice so clear? > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.19/1008 - Release Date: > 9/14/2007 8:59 AM > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
