Blast From the Past Scotsman Gormet Cuber

[GenesisRefrig]

Went on an ice machine call today at a resort on the Canadian border. 40 minute boat ride and I find a dual evaperator Scotsman Gormet cuber. Model #MCL2AE-4A. I haven't worked on one of these for over 24 years!

No hot gas valve on these machines. Discharge gas heats up two tanks of water that is discharged onto the evaperator plate during harvest. You can see the tanks in the second picture.

Anyway, broken cap tube. Spliced it together, evacuated and charged with real R-12 that the customer had on hand.

[GenesisRefrig]

Can someone tell me how to rotate photos? I even tried turning them upside down on my iPad and uploading them, thinking that would make them right side up. No luck. The forum software wants this ice machine upside down.

All the water will drain out of the sumps!

[itsiceman]

Am I remembering right?
Something like a rotating spray bars and several layers?

[VTP99]

Cool, never seen one of those. Gonna have to check that model out.

[GenesisRefrig]

Am I remembering right?
Something like a rotating spray bars and several layers?

That's it. Rotating spray bars that spray water up into shot-glass shaped cavities.

[VTP99]

Hey, that's kinda on the same principles as itsiceman's avatar, yes ?

[lytning]

I remember working on them. Didn't like it.

Hey, that's kinda on the same principles as itsiceman's avatar, yes ?

[Refrigerationuk]

Rotating spray is the way, but hasn't witness anything like this.

[itsiceman]

Rotating spray is the way, but hasn't witness anything like this.

Me neither. Starting out we had one but it never broke so I didn't get much time with it I think it just rusted out like and got replaced like old machines used to. I cut my teeth on Kold-Draft and old Mani's those kept you busy

[itsiceman]

Hey, that's kinda on the same principles as itsiceman's avatar, yes ?

I think the wording mislead a little withe the shot glass.
This machine makes the same ice as their undercounter machine just more of it

[itsiceman]

[icemeister]

Here's the service manual for that machine:

http://www.scotsman-ice.com/service/...uments/mc2.pdf

Do you have any idea of when it was made? I'm thinking late 1960's. From what I remember, that was rated at 450 lbs/day...or maybe 500 on a good day.

[icemeister]

I haven't surfed around the Scotsman site in quite a while. They've got a gold mine of old manuals in there along with some handy miscellaneous stuff. Here's a full model production list that answers my earlier question about when this machine was made. They were only made between 1972-74.

http://www.scotsman-ice.com/service/...us/MODLIST.PDF

[Chev5372]

Real R-12. Love it!

[pecmsg]

I haven't surfed around the Scotsman site in quite a while. They've got a gold mine of old manuals in there along with some handy miscellaneous stuff. Here's a full model production list that answers my earlier question about when this machine was made. They were only made between 1972-74.

http://www.scotsman-ice.com/service/...us/MODLIST.PDF

I dont know Ice

Worked on those for Harry M. Stevens in the early 80's. Giant Stadium, Shea Stadium, MSG.

The hot water would drain on top of the mold to free them.

[TechmanTerry]

I'm betting dollar to donuts that I still have a few parts for them Scotsman.LOL thinking about how many times I had my head and hand inside the bin,holding the "curtain"open and watching the spray bar,and the harvest drop and the cubes being "thrown" out of the evap section. I have a few KoldDraft parts.And the Scotsman Manual, And the KoldDraft manual with the Factory supplied wiring diagram w/ the 7 MOVEABLE switches for the "sequence of events"!

[icemeister]

I don't remember actually working on any of those but I recall my older brother assigning me to replace the rubber platen on an old SC200. That must have been around 1966-67 when I was still in school.

Now I read how the SC200 was first made in 1952...probably the Grandaddy of all Scotsman cubers. It had the same setup with the hot water harvest and "gourmet" cubes

[ETC1]

Gourmet machines still popular in Italy

[GenesisRefrig]

The ice is really dense, clear, and lasts a long time. I like it.

[icemeister]

Can someone tell me how to rotate photos? I even tried turning them upside down on my iPad and uploading them, thinking that would make them right side up. No luck. The forum software wants this ice machine upside down.

All the water will drain out of the sumps!

From what I have read on the subject, the JPEG files of photos taken with cell phones, ipads, etc. include an informational tag called EXIF which defines the orientation of the image when the shot was taken. On programs which use this EXIF data the image will be displayed correctly...ie you can hold the camera upside down but the EXIF tells the displaying program which direction is right-side up. Popular programs like Facebook use it and so your pictures would likely work fine over there.

However this site's software, vBulletin, doesn't use EXIF data in the display of images... based on what I've found. In addition, I suspect it rotates images by default to display in a landscape orientation even if your image is in portrait mode.

For your images to be displayed as you want them to, the best way I know of is to use a image hosting site like Photobucket.

http://s5.photobucket.com/