Why I don't drink out of fountains or get ice in my drinks.

[vzenuh]

Had a call for an IM. They say it isn't making ice. Open the front door and from what I can see is that they keep it pretty clean. I can tell they wipe everything down, except for the parts they don't know how to remove.

I restart the machine and notice that the water inlet energizes just for a sec then stops. closer inspection shows there is a lil slime on the water sensor.

Tell the customer that I need to clean and sanitize the machine. As I started to pull parts off the machine,,, I dropped the cover on the bottom of the evap,, this jumped out at me as the main problem.

[2sac]

I hope you released that pink snot into the wild. It's a living thing you know. Sure would hate to think you killed it.

[hvac wiz 79]

thats fargin nasty!

[vzenuh]

LOL! its hard to see it in the pic,,, had to resize it,,, but it goes all the way across. Thankfully the bin was empty. I just put a pan in the bin and used a putty knife to scrape most of it off. The worst part was hearing it plop in the box.

Needless to say,,,I used quite a bit of sanitizer on that job,, and threw away my IM toothbrush after I finished.

At first glance you wouldn't think it was this bad. I wish I took a before pic. You could tell that they attempted to keep their IM clean.

[bacciagalupe]

looks like a subway i/m the also get pretty slimed up

[hvac wiz 79]

looks like a subway i/m the also get pretty slimed up

first thought that went through my mind .... i wonder if the new mani's with Luminice stop that 100% like advertised ... I asked a few guys at manitowoc & they said 100% ... every other slime inhibitor ive tried like ice guard or as i refer to them "ice dildos" suck .... sachets were ok but i had to double & triple up but people eventually cut maintenance out so i never found the true test results

[vzenuh]

first thought that went through my mind .... i wonder if the new mani's with Luminice stop that 100% like advertised ... I asked a few guys at manitowoc & they said 100% ... every other slime inhibitor ive tried like ice guard or as i refer to them "ice dildos" suck .... sachets were ok but i had to double & triple up but people eventually cut maintenance out so i never found the true test results

I have wondered that too. I wouldn't say most,,,,but many customers compain about the cost a normal cleaning. The run it till the heath department inspects em and gigs em for their dirty IM, then a service call is issued.

I would love to see a real world time lapse video of a IM in the places where we see bad things happens. BTW,,,, how long is the lumiice good for?

But just selling them on the price prob would be the hard part, lol.

I guess its human nature to run it till it breaks.

[mikeybow]

Please don't kill the pink slime! The meat markets would go out of busness.

[len]

go to burger king and pop off one of them nozzles from the soda fountain!

[2sac]

go to burger king and pop off one of them nozzles from the soda fountain!

[akelesis]

that slime stuff might be a new topping for a burger called special orange mayonaise

[GroundSquirrel]

[Some Dude]

Thats clean compared to some, wait till you find one where the solenoid has been leaking into the comp compartment, yummy.