Thank you for mentioning not putting service gauges on. I used to take care of a complex with 72 heat pumps on the roof and when i started, the building engineer got angry with me and said I didn't know what i was doing because I wasn't putting my gauges on while doing maintenance like the previous service tech did. I asked him how many units had defrost issues in the winter and he said it was always a problem. I explained that the units had a charge designed to provide heat and and cooling and every time gauges were put on and off they lost a small amount of refrigerant and eventually it affected the performance of the unit. I told him I take temperature readings to determine if the unit was operating correctly. You are the first tech I have ever heard mention that on a vlog. Good job.
Ice makers are sensitive to minor changes to their charge. I was taught ice makers before refrigerant blends hit the market. And with blends now, it's that much more critical.
@robertwood9628 I don't trust techs who put gauges on a machine just for maintenance.. IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DONT FIX IT!!!. temp readings, amps, sounds, I spect for damages, inspect the contacts, clean it, look for loose wiring, I sect damage, environmental damage, oil. YOU DONT NEED GAUGES IF ITS WORKING AS IT SHOULD.
In this trade,you only have 1 chance to get it right sometimes.you take all the information you can and make the best call,in the time that you are there.if you do not know how to connect proves properly,you might be in the wrong business.
I work for a commercial restaurant equipment repair company. We offer Preventative Maintenance agreements and one of the things we do is clean and sanitize ice machines. It’s very important to clean and sanitize these machines to perfection.
This is like when I would work on tape libraries. You gotta sit and watch sometimes even for hours to see whats going on. Sometimes its a simple matter that NOTHING, sensors/error logs, will tell you. This is why I love fixing things and the troubleshooting
We have run across a couple of "maintenance" companies in South Florida that produced similar results. Turned out that a former apprentice who worked for a hvac refrigeration company and didn't complete the training because of inability to grasp the principles. So he started his own "cleaning company" and deliberately underpriced other legitimate servicing companies. Problem was he didn't know the factory recommended procedures, used improper supplies /filters, it was a disaster. He failed at cleaning as well. Last time we checked he was doing Roofing..... Lol
I'm a lead tech with my company, and I always advise my guys to use stubby gauges on a critically charged system. Stubbies allow you to check a lot without robbing the charge. Myself and some of my guys use a service 90 degree fitting that has a thumbscrew Schrader depresser. It's a game changer. I really appreciate your content, and I've learned a lot from you. I very much subscribe to the big picture diagnosis mentality and preach that to my guys. Keep doing what you do. You are one of the few who really help pass on the good knowledge that we as senior techs have acquired over years of service and lots of learning the hard way. I know what it takes to do what you do, and I appreciate your dedication. You make a difference.
Yep gotta do the same with heavy equipment. Just had a machine that was dying randomly, ends up being a broken connector on the fuel pump that was half apart.
That machine HAS NOT been cleaned at all. It's still dirty so how could it have been cleaned. I'd imagine they ran a bottle of sanitizer through it and called it a day
They probably did just that. Most ice machines are dirtier than that from what I’ve seen. If I seen this when looking at an ice machine all it would need is a light cleaning in my opinion. Water pump, and visible stains that could be taken off, along with the water probe and water level
Buenas noches Chris, gracias por todo lo que nos enseñas de verdad que tú onestidad dice mucho de tú persona, tus consejos son una excelente guía y valiosos para mi, tienes una gran manera de explicar paso a paso lo que se tiene que hacer. Nuevamente muchas gracias Chris saludos desde Coacalco Edo de México. Tengan una excelente noche.
Reminds me of the time the Director of Maintenance reamed me out for resetting the freight elevator's breaker so I could move a palleted ton of corned beef up to the main kitchen. Apparently he and someone named "Otis" had been chasing an intermittent fault in a 1990s board
@@HVACRVIDEOS Maybe I wasn’t patient enough with it; but, I attempted to use Nu-Calgon’s NickleSafe on a heavily calcified Hoshizaki. My result didn’t look much better than the ‘before’ shots in your video. Maybe I need more practice or a different product (the restaurant didn’t want to buy ScaleAway.)
working on ice machines cured me of the desire to have ice in my drinks. i ALWAYS order drinks without ice. that also means they actually have to give me the full amount of drink and not screw me with buckets of ice with a little bit of actual drink.
Thanks Chris, another great video. It’s a real pity that so many people don’t take any responsibility for the quality of their work. Too many quick and dirty jobs to save a dollar, not realizing that that dollar saved on cleaning will cost a lot more in service and customer complaints.
Hi Chris. Love how thoroughly you go over and explain ice machines. Im curious, you have stated many times that you have to. E patient with ice machines. So when you get a crazy summer like you have, do ice machines take a sort of back seat, or do you just get them up and running? What's your protocol for going back? Thanks for your time.😁😎
During the summer Ice machines dont take a back seat but It's very situational. For example if it needs a deep cleaning after a repair I will give it a good quick cleaning but schedule a deep cleaning the following day. Also sometimes in a emergency situation I will temporarily get a machine running only to schedule a deeper more permanent repair a day or two later when time allows.
4:40 Doing this estimation cold. (froze the video here; pun overload error) So the loose screw in the back set off an idea. It might be possible that whomever “cleaned it” last thought that mic adjust thumbscrew was a thumbscrew to remove a cover. I am estimating recalibration and at least a cleaning of the grid, assuming they didnt already break any plastic parts.
Can’t believe how lazy those techs are. I bet they didn’t let you clean it. Thank so very much for stressing thoroughness when working on these appliances. Great ice machine class.
That's funny I just shaved my head the other day,😂😂. Great video on how to Not jump in the pile before you Look 1st. Well I hope the customer starts looking at what they are paying n doing to there equipment. Dissatisfied your customer is a bad business to get into it will follow you for a life time. Be good, be safe, and stay positive and keep smiling 😃.
While working on these things, you dont want to inadvertently " fix it". BoOm MIC DROP.. absolutly. If you fix it, you just lost the ability for cause and effect, the person who last worked on the machine just got a free pass for their work because the evidence has been lost.. leave it broke, tell the customer what you found. Let the customer make the decision. Awesome take on the right way to work!!! That and if you fix it, you will be held responsible for whatever is broke.
This ice machine will never need to worry about osteoporosis. It's got enough calcium in it for three people! If I were the client, I'd be uber-pissed that I was wasting a chunk of my budget on services that weren't being provided.
I agree, I would be uber angry as well, but sometimes, in larger chain restaurants, these things can slip through the cracks as long as the "cleaning" fees are cheap enough.
We just had a water main break a few weeks ago. My workplace was affected and the ice machine in the break room was shut off. The maintenance crew opened it to check something and that thing was beyond filthy inside. Who knows if it ever gets cleaned otherwise. Gag.
It's not even just incompetence. Some people are just hopeless cash grabbers. They just don't care. 04:29 - 120 Hz happens to be just the double of the line frequency there in NA (100 Hz for the rest of the world), and the AC hum - due to how magnetostriction works - is actually 120 Hz as well. I wonder if that's got something to do with the frequencies the microphone listens to.
At each cycle end a certain amount of water needs to be dumped down the drain to prevent sludge and mineral build-up. The ice is very pure but the calcium and lime stay in solution -- so proper filling and draining are very important. It looks like this machine does not drain off enough water when water-fall stops, thus hardness would keep building up in the reservoir. Maybe scale prevents good drainage. Inlet filters can also become a problem if machine is starved for water. The reservoir is for water not for scale build-up.
@ 15:18 you can see the date on the iPhone if you slide up de finger on the video/photo - and for sure if you export them to a computer they should contain hidden data like date and time 😊
This was nasty! We, as nurses, had to completely rinse and wipe down the soda dispenser and the ice maker every night, five days per week! And we had the cleaning crew every 6 months. They couldn’t fake it because we watched them like hawks. It was an outpatient surgery center. Got back into the hospital and the only cleaning done was before our federal inspections. One of the observers took apart one machine and it was so gross, the hospital got a bunch of dings. One for every machine in the hospital. Forced them to yearly clean the machines.
Good job laying of the gauges until there's a proven need for them. We had a new client start up with us. I went up to do the intake diagnostics and found every unit low charge by 2 to 4 pounds. I checked each unit with my Bacharach, and found not a single leak outside of Schrader valves. Years of maintenance techs gauging up and being lazy about emptying the gauges back into the system did it. Depending on your hose ste and manifold, it's anything from 2 to 5 ounces each time you gauge up without putting that refrigerant back in the system. That's in addition to any spray loss when gauging up. Check line temperature before gauging up.
It really frustrates me to see people not clean things properly and keep their job. I have been fired way too many times because I'm too slow cleaning a machine, but my work never failed an inspection.
Hubby used to be a health inspector. Ice machines were one of the biggest offenders that he's find not cleaned properly, if at all. I'd be surprised that it's not beenmarked as a violation before.
I'm curious know what the ideal thickness is I'm sure if I harped enough to Manitowoc. they would tell me. do you have a dial Caliper. check the size of your gauge. is that 0.375 OD tubing?
I worked at a McDonald's when I was 17 and one day we were bored and we opened the cover on the ice machine, and it was rather nasty inside. The inside of the ice bin on the soda machine was not any better.
As far as the iPhone video: is is saving as HEIF? If so perhaps changing it to one of the other options should alleviate this issue. As a temp fix, you can look through your iCloud synced photos/videos online, and that should have the date somewhere in the browser viewer. I changed my stuff away from HEIF, because I like the portability of the standard file types, plus the date/time is often in the file name as you mentioned. I will post screenshots for the iPhone settings in the discord.
Unfortunately, I know how you feel. I have to do it with it with my fellow employees. I work at a corporation. People are more lazy than ever. But there is also the other issue where management is putting too many hours on our daily schedules, causing us to hurry up. I’ve just gotten to the point where I do my best work and keep telling my manager They need to hire another employee. Good fine though ice machines are delicate. I just had to clean an ice machine that hasn’t been clean since 2019 the other day.
Apple does a lot of frustrating things these days. The first glance on the ice was that the pieces did seem to be equally sized but thin. Observation and even photos of a before situation can be very useful. I do that with wiring - because you never know if the wiring is modified in some way. For cars there's often a TSB (technical service bulletin) sent out for some problems, but you need to know where to look. Not sure about HVAC units though.
Your photos and videos do have the date encoded, it’s in the metadata you can see that in the photos app. If you want it printed onto the photo then there are a few apps that can do that for you.
Been a few years since I worked in the food service industry, but isn't this something that can also make them loose points on the sanitation inspections?
Slide down on photos and videos for meta data on iPhone like time stamp and location maybe it’s up while in photo gallery click on the video and slide up from bottom of screen make sure meta data is tuned on
I guarantee you the people making the decisions don't care that the "cleaning company" did such a crappy job because hiring someone to do it properly would be more expensive and affect their ability to get their next bonus...
That evaporator looks like smoker's lungs with all that crud on there, jeeze! I am wondering if they did a sanitize cycle and are calling that "cleaning".
@@HVACRVIDEOS worked for a short time in a restaurant where a guy tried to clean the ice machine this way. Told my Boss he was out of the office in no time and up his butt and told him he is not gonna leave until it's sparkling clean
I can be an Ice machine cleaning company too. Here goes my price list in imaginary parrots: Spit and rub with sleeve - 50 parrots Do not spit and rub with sleeve - 100 parrots Same, but not ajust your set - 500 parrots Do a proper cleaning, by calling Chris - 5x Chris' price 🤪
Shut that ice machine down and bleach it! Scrub it with some Baking Soda!!!!! Then a hot water wash/rinse. Scrub out all the ice making trays. DETAIL IT!!!! I have built many restaurants and upon finishing them we would go thru all the new machinery and clean and sterilize it for use. Just because it's new does not make it clean. This kind of maintenance on an ice machine should be monthly!!!!!
iOS devices have a lot of issues when it comes to photos and video. One of the biggest is no ability to actually control resolution. So I'd agree that while you can stick with the iOS devices for personal stuff? Get something else for this job.
The date of the file should be in the pictures app, when you select the file, look at the upper left corner of the video. it should show the date, time, and location the video was taken. If you swipe up partially while the video is playing, it will show the information under the video being played.
When you realize that 90% of the people in this world are just winging it, you dont feel bad for charging a decent fee for your proper services. And I dont know who needs to hear this but American men need to tighten up. The days of the light duty kings are coming to an end. EARN IT.
Know I am by far no expert Teck when it comes to ice machines. But I know from experience a dirty machine is a headache machine. So? That was cleaned 2 weeks prior??😂😂😂 Yep that was a fast rinse job an pay me for a complete job when in truth was half ass job 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Thank you for mentioning not putting service gauges on. I used to take care of a complex with 72 heat pumps on the roof and when i started, the building engineer got angry with me and said I didn't know what i was doing because I wasn't putting my gauges on while doing maintenance like the previous service tech did. I asked him how many units had defrost issues in the winter and he said it was always a problem. I explained that the units had a charge designed to provide heat and and cooling and every time gauges were put on and off they lost a small amount of refrigerant and eventually it affected the performance of the unit. I told him I take temperature readings to determine if the unit was operating correctly. You are the first tech I have ever heard mention that on a vlog. Good job.
Ice makers are sensitive to minor changes to their charge. I was taught ice makers before refrigerant blends hit the market. And with blends now, it's that much more critical.
You are %100 correct
@robertwood9628 I don't trust techs who put gauges on a machine just for maintenance.. IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DONT FIX IT!!!. temp readings, amps, sounds, I spect for damages, inspect the contacts, clean it, look for loose wiring, I sect damage, environmental damage, oil. YOU DONT NEED GAUGES IF ITS WORKING AS IT SHOULD.
In this trade,you only have 1 chance to get it right sometimes.you take all the information you can and make the best call,in the time that you are there.if you do not know how to connect proves properly,you might be in the wrong business.
I work for a commercial restaurant equipment repair company. We offer Preventative Maintenance agreements and one of the things we do is clean and sanitize ice machines. It’s very important to clean and sanitize these machines to perfection.
This is like when I would work on tape libraries. You gotta sit and watch sometimes even for hours to see whats going on. Sometimes its a simple matter that NOTHING, sensors/error logs, will tell you. This is why I love fixing things and the troubleshooting
We have run across a couple of "maintenance" companies in South Florida that produced similar results. Turned out that a former apprentice who worked for a hvac refrigeration company and didn't complete the training because of inability to grasp the principles. So he started his own "cleaning company" and deliberately underpriced other legitimate servicing companies. Problem was he didn't know the factory recommended procedures, used improper supplies /filters, it was a disaster. He failed at cleaning as well. Last time we checked he was doing Roofing..... Lol
from ice machine cleaning to roofing,, how are them roofs turning out ?
@@HVACRVIDEOS At best wrong sized shingles, at worst wrong sized timbers I assume.
For the record I found your channel as a maintenance guy trying to get better at our Scotsman ice machines, very helpful content
I'm a lead tech with my company, and I always advise my guys to use stubby gauges on a critically charged system. Stubbies allow you to check a lot without robbing the charge. Myself and some of my guys use a service 90 degree fitting that has a thumbscrew Schrader depresser. It's a game changer. I really appreciate your content, and I've learned a lot from you. I very much subscribe to the big picture diagnosis mentality and preach that to my guys. Keep doing what you do. You are one of the few who really help pass on the good knowledge that we as senior techs have acquired over years of service and lots of learning the hard way. I know what it takes to do what you do, and I appreciate your dedication. You make a difference.
I always have to tell myself to slow down when walking up to a troubled piece of equipment. I’ve learned from experience, lol. Great video Chris!
Thanks bud
Yep gotta do the same with heavy equipment.
Just had a machine that was dying randomly, ends up being a broken connector on the fuel pump that was half apart.
That thing looks like it has never been cleaned. That cleaning company is just scamming others
I hope you showed the owners this mess.
The facility director anyway
Great job Chris has always. I don't miss working on ice machine
very time consuming.
Thanks bud
Just got home for the day, always a great way to start the night when you upload :D
Thanks bud
Didn’t do much as far as cleaning! They just paid for nothing and you had to clear up enough of the problem for the machine to work. Good job!
Thanks bud
That machine HAS NOT been cleaned at all. It's still dirty so how could it have been cleaned. I'd imagine they ran a bottle of sanitizer through it and called it a day
Maybe they just rubbed the outside of the cabinet with a wet towel and called it clean
They probably did just that. Most ice machines are dirtier than that from what I’ve seen. If I seen this when looking at an ice machine all it would need is a light cleaning in my opinion. Water pump, and visible stains that could be taken off, along with the water probe and water level
At best they initiated the self cleaning cycle and walked away
@@HVACRVIDEOS agreed I said to my wife when we watched it "and that's why I don't have ice*
Buenas noches Chris, gracias por todo lo que nos enseñas de verdad que tú onestidad dice mucho de tú persona, tus consejos son una excelente guía y valiosos para mi, tienes una gran manera de explicar paso a paso lo que se tiene que hacer. Nuevamente muchas gracias Chris saludos desde Coacalco Edo de México.
Tengan una excelente noche.
Siempre aprecio tus amables palabras.
@HVACRVIDEOS
Como dices tú, es lo que es y nada más.
Saludos y excelente día.
Reminds me of the time the Director of Maintenance reamed me out for resetting the freight elevator's breaker so I could move a palleted ton of corned beef up to the main kitchen.
Apparently he and someone named "Otis" had been chasing an intermittent fault in a 1990s board
Lost my security master key for six months.
Still had a bootleg copy.
@davejohnsonnola1536 you live dangerously, sir
0:54 - What do _you_ use to clean calcium deposits?
CLR or just concentrated Ice Machine cleaner
@@HVACRVIDEOS Maybe I wasn’t patient enough with it; but, I attempted to use Nu-Calgon’s NickleSafe on a heavily calcified Hoshizaki. My result didn’t look much better than the ‘before’ shots in your video. Maybe I need more practice or a different product (the restaurant didn’t want to buy ScaleAway.)
working on ice machines cured me of the desire to have ice in my drinks. i ALWAYS order drinks without ice. that also means they actually have to give me the full amount of drink and not screw me with buckets of ice with a little bit of actual drink.
Good call
Thanks Chris, another great video. It’s a real pity that so many people don’t take any responsibility for the quality of their work. Too many quick and dirty jobs to save a dollar, not realizing that that dollar saved on cleaning will cost a lot more in service and customer complaints.
Your exactly right, thanks for watching
i have watch alot of your ice-videos and has me just having not ice in my drinks when i eat out.
That's a good idea, although sometimes I even push my luck and get ice in my drink
Hi Chris. Love how thoroughly you go over and explain ice machines. Im curious, you have stated many times that you have to. E patient with ice machines. So when you get a crazy summer like you have, do ice machines take a sort of back seat, or do you just get them up and running? What's your protocol for going back? Thanks for your time.😁😎
During the summer Ice machines dont take a back seat but It's very situational. For example if it needs a deep cleaning after a repair I will give it a good quick cleaning but schedule a deep cleaning the following day. Also sometimes in a emergency situation I will temporarily get a machine running only to schedule a deeper more permanent repair a day or two later when time allows.
@HVACRVIDEOS thank you for your detailed response. I really appreciate that.
4:40 Doing this estimation cold. (froze the video here; pun overload error)
So the loose screw in the back set off an idea. It might be possible that whomever “cleaned it” last thought that mic adjust thumbscrew was a thumbscrew to remove a cover.
I am estimating recalibration and at least a cleaning of the grid, assuming they didnt already break any plastic parts.
Can’t believe how lazy those techs are. I bet they didn’t let you clean it. Thank so very much for stressing thoroughness when working on these appliances. Great ice machine class.
Thanks bud
am new here and already love your content, looking forward to more learning.
Thanks bud
That's funny I just shaved my head the other day,😂😂. Great video on how to Not jump in the pile before you Look 1st. Well I hope the customer starts looking at what they are paying n doing to there equipment. Dissatisfied your customer is a bad business to get into it will follow you for a life time. Be good, be safe, and stay positive and keep smiling 😃.
Always, thanks for watching
I remember you showing off that ice thickness tool to me and a few guys at the last manitowoc training class 👍
Nice
While working on these things, you dont want to inadvertently " fix it". BoOm MIC DROP..
absolutly. If you fix it, you just lost the ability for cause and effect, the person who last worked on the machine just got a free pass for their work because the evidence has been lost..
leave it broke, tell the customer what you found.
Let the customer make the decision. Awesome take on the right way to work!!!
That and if you fix it, you will be held responsible for whatever is broke.
High chance the "cleaning" it received was it being put through a cleaning cycle and the guy leaving it alone after that.
Yes, %1000
This ice machine will never need to worry about osteoporosis. It's got enough calcium in it for three people!
If I were the client, I'd be uber-pissed that I was wasting a chunk of my budget on services that weren't being provided.
I agree, I would be uber angry as well, but sometimes, in larger chain restaurants, these things can slip through the cracks as long as the "cleaning" fees are cheap enough.
That is another great video brother.
Thanks for watching
We just had a water main break a few weeks ago. My workplace was affected and the ice machine in the break room was shut off. The maintenance crew opened it to check something and that thing was beyond filthy inside. Who knows if it ever gets cleaned otherwise. Gag.
It's not even just incompetence. Some people are just hopeless cash grabbers. They just don't care.
04:29 - 120 Hz happens to be just the double of the line frequency there in NA (100 Hz for the rest of the world), and the AC hum - due to how magnetostriction works - is actually 120 Hz as well. I wonder if that's got something to do with the frequencies the microphone listens to.
Great video. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching
What's the difference in prices between a filter changing company and an HVAC tech coming in and doing it?
One finds problems one doesn’t 😂
@@Blakethegoatlol, yes
I bet that invoice went out in proper form and billing will be expecting payment no problem in that area!
I bet you are correct
At each cycle end a certain amount of water needs to be dumped down the drain to prevent sludge and mineral build-up. The ice is very pure but the calcium and lime stay in solution -- so proper filling and draining are very important. It looks like this machine does not drain off enough water when water-fall stops, thus hardness would keep building up in the reservoir. Maybe scale prevents good drainage. Inlet filters can also become a problem if machine is starved for water. The reservoir is for water not for scale build-up.
We're doing domestic refrigerators with 41grams of r600a
So Chris, you learned this famous quote: "Yogi Berra is credited with saying, “You can observe a lot by just watching”"
Truer words have never been spoken
Good video and I like the back of the office.
I like the front of the office
@ 15:18 you can see the date on the iPhone if you slide up de finger on the video/photo - and for sure if you export them to a computer they should contain hidden data like date and time 😊
Yes I realize I can find it but on android the date is automatically in the file name
This was nasty! We, as nurses, had to completely rinse and wipe down the soda dispenser and the ice maker every night, five days per week! And we had the cleaning crew every 6 months. They couldn’t fake it because we watched them like hawks. It was an outpatient surgery center. Got back into the hospital and the only cleaning done was before our federal inspections. One of the observers took apart one machine and it was so gross, the hospital got a bunch of dings. One for every machine in the hospital. Forced them to yearly clean the machines.
Good job laying of the gauges until there's a proven need for them.
We had a new client start up with us. I went up to do the intake diagnostics and found every unit low charge by 2 to 4 pounds.
I checked each unit with my Bacharach, and found not a single leak outside of Schrader valves.
Years of maintenance techs gauging up and being lazy about emptying the gauges back into the system did it.
Depending on your hose ste and manifold, it's anything from 2 to 5 ounces each time you gauge up without putting that refrigerant back in the system. That's in addition to any spray loss when gauging up.
Check line temperature before gauging up.
Exactly right
It really frustrates me to see people not clean things properly and keep their job. I have been fired way too many times because I'm too slow cleaning a machine, but my work never failed an inspection.
I'm in the field and people make fun of me for not getting ice at restaurants until I started taking pictures of the black mold in these machines.
Do those people still get ice after theyve seen your pictures ?
A few have stopped getting ice. Some don't care.
tell them to look at their home fridge ice and water dispensers. 🤣🤣
Hubby used to be a health inspector. Ice machines were one of the biggest offenders that he's find not cleaned properly, if at all. I'd be surprised that it's not beenmarked as a violation before.
I'm curious know what the ideal thickness is I'm sure if I harped enough to Manitowoc. they would tell me. do you have a dial Caliper. check the size of your gauge. is that 0.375 OD tubing?
manitowoc...on the older models a number 2 pencil works. on the newer indigo next models tech support says 9/32 drill bit is a good way to measure
Well, you don’t have to say it in an official email, just include the pictures 😂
That should tell the customer all he needs to know
True
This is why i always ask for no ice at restaurants
I call ice machines "deadly ice"
I just dropped getting ice today !
I worked at a McDonald's when I was 17 and one day we were bored and we opened the cover on the ice machine, and it was rather nasty inside. The inside of the ice bin on the soda machine was not any better.
That’s a nice jig for adjusting ice thickness
Thanks
Another great video thanks you for sharing
Thanks for watching
"Slime in the ice machine!" RIP Marvin Zindler, eyewitness news
RIP
@@goldfishpartyy I remember Marvin!
Those ice thickness sensors were a nightmare for me when i first started working on ice machines
They can be tricky
When is R744 an option in the usa ? ( 15 years + in my country )
It's becoming more popular in certain areas of the U.S, spwcifically in grocery stores and Coke Vending machines
Yes ice machines have a critical charge, 👍
Gives you more $$$
As far as the iPhone video: is is saving as HEIF? If so perhaps changing it to one of the other options should alleviate this issue. As a temp fix, you can look through your iCloud synced photos/videos online, and that should have the date somewhere in the browser viewer. I changed my stuff away from HEIF, because I like the portability of the standard file types, plus the date/time is often in the file name as you mentioned. I will post screenshots for the iPhone settings in the discord.
Unfortunately, I know how you feel. I have to do it with it with my fellow employees. I work at a corporation. People are more lazy than ever. But there is also the other issue where management is putting too many hours on our daily schedules, causing us to hurry up. I’ve just gotten to the point where I do my best work and keep telling my manager They need to hire another employee. Good fine though ice machines are delicate. I just had to clean an ice machine that hasn’t been clean since 2019 the other day.
How dirty was that thing?
Excellent observations!, devil in the details
Thanks bud
I work on r600 units and have to use shrader core removal tools so I don't loose any charge. 47 grams isn't much
If you can get the MM we can make that tool and sell on your site
I'll have to see about doing that
Funny you mention the itp wire holding the itp too far away from the plate. Guess what I ran in to today 1/4” bridge 😂
Once it happens you will never forget it
Apple does a lot of frustrating things these days.
The first glance on the ice was that the pieces did seem to be equally sized but thin.
Observation and even photos of a before situation can be very useful. I do that with wiring - because you never know if the wiring is modified in some way.
For cars there's often a TSB (technical service bulletin) sent out for some problems, but you need to know where to look. Not sure about HVAC units though.
Before pictures are so important, I can't stress it enough, especially with wiring or any complex teardown
NO Mate. That should have been taken out of commission for a deep clean. Just a dust and polish is not good enough in the food industry.
Your photos and videos do have the date encoded, it’s in the metadata you can see that in the photos app. If you want it printed onto the photo then there are a few apps that can do that for you.
Thanks for the tip
If that was properly cleaned I am Don Knotts.
😂😂😂lol hello Don 😁 sorry I couldn’t help myself us old folks have a sense of humor
Been a few years since I worked in the food service industry, but isn't this something that can also make them loose points on the sanitation inspections?
Perhaps in some areas
Love when the customer resets a hoshi and you ask about the beeps and they say it just beeped continuously. 😂
Lol
I really hoped you told the owner about the ice machine being dirty
Slide down on photos and videos for meta data on iPhone like time stamp and location maybe it’s up while in photo gallery click on the video and slide up from bottom of screen make sure meta data is tuned on
Gotcha
Hi, what are your views on inverter AC units???. #Repair
What do you mean ?
AC units with inverters running compressors???
Your date was 11/1. You mentioned that yesterday was 10/31 during the diagnosis.
Got it
The date is in the metadata for the video, no need to have it in the filename.
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This is one of the reasons I don’t like getting ice in drinks.
I wonder if Unisys is the maintainer there? I worked for them....briefly and MY GAWD are they horrible.
What did they think a $10 ice machine cleaning was going to get them😂. They were probably like ok won't hire one of those companies anymore.
Sometimes it's all about keeping the maintenance budget on track and not overspending
I guarantee you the people making the decisions don't care that the "cleaning company" did such a crappy job because hiring someone to do it properly would be more expensive and affect their ability to get their next bonus...
Yes, you are correct
How much you charge for this
That evaporator looks like smoker's lungs with all that crud on there, jeeze! I am wondering if they did a sanitize cycle and are calling that "cleaning".
Oh no, a national company not doing the job they charge to do. What a surprise.
Lol
At some point the calcium build up is the only thing keeping some parts together.
Lol, that's a valid point
Would you just look at That!
Would you look at that
Cleaning means put cleaner in an press clean 🤣
Lol, That's how some companies train their guys to clean ice machines
@@HVACRVIDEOS worked for a short time in a restaurant where a guy tried to clean the ice machine this way. Told my Boss he was out of the office in no time and up his butt and told him he is not gonna leave until it's sparkling clean
cant keep the ice machine cleaned, imagine the grill food is cooked on
I can be an Ice machine cleaning company too. Here goes my price list in imaginary parrots:
Spit and rub with sleeve - 50 parrots
Do not spit and rub with sleeve - 100 parrots
Same, but not ajust your set - 500 parrots
Do a proper cleaning, by calling Chris - 5x Chris' price
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Lol, that's awesome
That is actually pretty freakin gross.
Yes it is
i betcha that ice tastes delicious.
I'll bet it tastes like the dirty side of a car tire
Shut that ice machine down and bleach it!
Scrub it with some Baking Soda!!!!!
Then a hot water wash/rinse.
Scrub out all the ice making trays.
DETAIL IT!!!!
I have built many restaurants and upon finishing them we would go thru all the new machinery and clean and sterilize it for use.
Just because it's new does not make it clean.
This kind of maintenance on an ice machine should be monthly!!!!!
I totally agree but I wish the customers did….
Company we clean ice machines for gets what they pay for which at $200 isn’t much. By the time you add travel and chemical not much you’re gonna get.
Chris I'm amazed you ignore poor hygiene and don't whistle bow to the authorities. I guess you don't care if somebody gets poisoned.
Climate class proves,no phone.you are already there for hours,might as well check pressures.
Fluff and buff
iOS devices have a lot of issues when it comes to photos and video. One of the biggest is no ability to actually control resolution. So I'd agree that while you can stick with the iOS devices for personal stuff? Get something else for this job.
The date of the file should be in the pictures app, when you select the file, look at the upper left corner of the video. it should show the date, time, and location the video was taken. If you swipe up partially while the video is playing, it will show the information under the video being played.
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I can only imagine how the ice makers look everywhere I go to eat Burger King Zaxbys McDonalds etc.
Don't imagine
just nasty ice
I would show owner what other company is not doing
Ohh, getting these ice cubes…. Disgusting.
USA's latest superlatives: Incompetence & Corruption
Lol
When you realize that 90% of the people in this world are just winging it, you dont feel bad for charging a decent fee for your proper services. And I dont know who needs to hear this but American men need to tighten up. The days of the light duty kings are coming to an end. EARN IT.
Light duty kings, I think I could get behind that concept
@ I stole it from a drill instructor video I watched, been using it ever since.
Look at it this way they're cleaning company as bad of a job as they did just made you some money
That's the truth
Every one of these videos make me not want a drink from a restaurant. They are always gross
Know I am by far no expert Teck when it comes to ice machines. But I know from experience a dirty machine is a headache machine. So? That was cleaned 2 weeks prior??😂😂😂 Yep that was a fast rinse job an pay me for a complete job when in truth was half ass job 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Exactly right