Homemade ice maker! SAVE thousands over a commercial ice maker
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- I've been playing with an idea for awhile to make a homemade ice maker. Commercial ice makers costs thousands and was far out of our budget. DO NOT ATTEMPT, FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY. Seek professional advice for any wiring or modifications of any appliance. The Kelley's Country Life LLC accepts no responsibility for you trying anything you see on our show.
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I'm a commercial refrigeration mechanic, I don't know how it popped up on my you tube feed, but I think this is really clever. Well done.
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Also a commercial refrigeration mechanic.... 40 years in the field. Well done!
Thank you!
@@torainbowsend Any thoughts as if this could be done with a commercial ice maker unit? (Apealing features could be more capacity, better quality ice, less draining/energy waste)
the algorithm has blessed you
I was just talking to some guys at work about buying a ice maker. This may be the one time I’m happy that the phone listens to conversations….. great video!
Lol scary isn't it!
Same here. Can't be a coincidence this random video got pushed on me so coincidentally.
Damn I just went camping and then this popped up. We talked about ice about as much as on a usual camping trip. Didn’t think about this till I read your comment.
If you camp a lot you need to watch my review video coming this Friday. It's the perfect camping companion.
You can turn that off
I’m a refrigeration tech, and it seems you got everything right, just be sure to seal up around were your wires and tube meet the gasket or it frost up around the top edge if there are any air leaks. Otherwise I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Seems like a great idea.
Thank you
Craig I have a question for you. I am doing the same thing he is doing but the GE icemaker WR30X10093 I bought has the color code on the wires coming out of the icemaker are light blue, black, yellow, and green. I would be grateful to know which wire hooks up to power, neutral, ground, and down to the solenoid. Thanks for any help.
@@capman911 hey mike, it’s been awhile, so double check me on this, in the back of the i.m cover or there may be on in the front kick plate a diagram. Green is ground,black should be hot, look at the valve to see what 2 wires are there, brown should be one. But please double check me, it’s been a few years since I’ve been in the field hope this helps some .
@@dakota5805 Thank you Sir for the gracious help.
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I’d mount the I/M on the left side and have a tall plastic trash can or similar directly under it. The ice would fall directly into the can. This would allow you to use the rest of the freezer for freezing food room without it coming in contact with the ice.
The only concern might be getting a good seal where the water line enters, this would cause the fill tube to freeze and frost to form. Mullion heaters are often used to prevent water lines from freezing.
Great video. I have nothing but respect for anyone who has an idea and goes for it. The world needs more do-ers. Kudos to you!
Keep watching the series, I build a lip to run lines and wiring so I no longer had to cut or modify the freezer.
i did something like you're suggestion, just used plexiglass to divide my freezer
Industry standard on lamp cord is the ridged wire is the neutral and the smooth wire is the hot. You could’ve used a flat 4 wire instead of the lamp cord but this is a great video you did and I’m going to do this because I’m tired of paying over $5 a day for ice at the store.
I remember when I was a kid my mom used to fill 1 gallon milk jugs with water and freeze them prior to our big fishing trip. We used them in portable coolers to keep the fish fresh until we got home.
I do that for camping trips when I have freezer space and remember to do it! 😂
Small soda bottles for small coolers, and balloons for big coolers! 👍
just so you know..... on a lamp cord or appliance cord that has those ridges... the ridges is the neutral(white), and the smooth is the black(hot). If you hook a lamp up the opposite way then you increase, by a lot, the chances of getting shocked because the outer part of the socket(the part that a bulb screws into) becomes the hot and it is very likely that you will touch it while trying to screw the bulb in.
Mans the build was awsome. What really blew my mind was I never realized I was using ice at different temperatures. My fridge ice does last alot longer than bagged ice. Super educational keep, it up creators.
Thank you for watching
ice can't be different fucking temperatures. Bro. wtf lolololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before you make a comment like this you might should do a simple Google search. Ice can and is a wide range of temperatures. Ice can actually get so cold that it liquifies in a very weird minus temperature state. It amazes me that people get stuck on the 32 degrees. That's the point at which a state change happens from liquid to solid. The solid form will continue to drop based on surrounding temperatures.
Mine makes crushed ice, if I put it in my house freezer you need an ice pick to use it, but if taken straight outta the machine and put n ice chest with some water it’s temperature is below freezing and the ice water mix will last for days. I left an orange water jug with no lid on it inside truck with windows rolled up with these 106 degree days over weekend and was still cold on day 3
I'm an actual Ice Machine Technician. I'm a representative of all 5 major commercial ice machine manufacturers. Manitowoc, Iceomatic, Scotsman, Hoshizaki and Ice Tro. Been doing ice machines for a long time.......all I can say is Bravo!!
Commercial ice machine quality has declined. They're are expensive to maintain, and getting more expensive every year. So kudos to you for figuring this out! Pure genius.
Thank you very much! I'd love to have the capacity of the big name brands, I just can't afford them.
@@TKCL heck I fix them for a living and I can't afford them either! Lol I get used units from time to time and fix them, then use it until it dies. Throw it away and start over.
Is Kold Draft still around?
My wife loves the crunch ice nuggets you sometimes get at restaurants. Is there an ice maker unit for those that could fit into a project like this? Or better yet, replace the ice maker in our Samsung freezer drawer? (We don't have a dispenser in the door.)
I am not sure, never seen one other than the crush function ice makers that go in side by side referators and freezers
Back in my boating days I thought about doing this, but I never did. Now that I'm older and my boating days are behind me, I don't have a need any longer. Still, I regret not doing it. Nice job!
You have to appreciate this guy's intelligence. Good design and thought process.
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Not only was it educational and fun to watch…. I’m planning to move next door ! Love this workshop
when heating up and bending plastic tubes or even pvc, you can fill the piece with sand then bend and it helps keep tube or pipe from kinking. great job on the project
That's been a popular suggestion, thanks
3D and 5D bends for pigging :)
Just commented the same thing...
Thanks. Great tip!!
Wonder if a heat gun can be used?
Kick in the freezer with the lid open and look for the condensation to become visible where the freon lines are. It will frost in stripes within minutes usually
Our beer club mods freezers like this all the time for CO2 lines to use as kegerators - this is how we find the lines as well.... tried and true method.
If it's something you do a lot, you can get a FLIR thermal camera attachment for your phone for about 100 bucks.
Well done Bud!
Nice job. I like the way you avoided drilling and installing into the side walls. I installed 2 icemakers into the sidewalls of a freezer (same one from Sams) 5+ years back. Had to be very careful working around those copper refrigeration lines. Worked great until finally one got stuck in the fill cycle and I got a solid block of ice the inside dimensions of the freezer. No worries, cleaned it all out and reinstalled 1 maker this time. All still going good.
That right there deserves a doctorate in southern engineering brother! Whew! Nicely done and thanks for sharing.
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The convenience factor alone, including just using ice for back yard use is huge. Nice work.
Yes it is, I don't live in a city and don't feel like driving to town anytime I need ice.
Fill one gallon jugs with water and line the bottom of the freezer to get the thermal mass and you can use the jugs in your coolers too. Great build!
Be careful drilling and/or cutting around the edge where the door seal contacts - most refrigerators and freezers have a loop of tubing that is off the hot side of the compressor to keep this edge warm. This is to keep ice from forming where the seal is and freezing the gasket down to the unit body.
great info .. thx
Pretty sure he figured out where to cut.
One idea would be to get the schematics of the unit to see where these parts are located.
@@MikeySlou LMAO i mean the guy mentioned it in the video... people dont watch the whole thing the just skim through it
@@OlAbeLincoln 'the just skim through it' Realize, that is the entirely correct method. No one should be watching entire videos except when they really need the entire video. Anything else is a ridiculous waste.
You did great! Catch the ice in a new plastic trash can then bag it as it gets full. You are right, the commercial ice makers depend on the ice itself to cool the ice bin, however, using the entire freezer as the maker and storage you don't have to worry about a drain constantly dripping water to the outside or a floor drain.
Hey I had a similar idea a long time ago but never had a need to put it in motion but to see you placing both of our ideals in motion was very satisfying and I was excited to see you come up with the ideal of a second ice maker because I was saying to myself that you should do that... and you did ...good job
I just used an old side by side fridge, took out all the shelves on the freezer side and put a 5 gallon bucket at the bottom for the ice to fall into
My friend did that but with a plastic trash can inside. Works well too
I did the same. 75 bucks👍
I've done this 5 years ago. It worked well when I had it running, was great for camping trips. Sadly, Last year when I moved, I dismantled the system and put the ice maker in my garage freezer/fridge. So now I have the ice maker in the kitchen and the garage. both of those combined will give me ~10-8 lb of ice in 24 hrs.
I'm getting there
Nice! Maybe throw a couple bags of store bought ice to prime her up/down to temp.
Free ice with this one simple trick, ice companies hate him.
Thank you TH-cam algorithm
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Well done! I appreciate backyard engineering.
I’m hypnotized by the genius of ingenuity
The one with ridges is your neutral, power is smooth as per electrical codes.
Just thought I'd share an idea. You could also find where the copper tubes are running in the walls if you turned it on and kept the top open and/or put a bucket of water inside then you'd see where the water froze on the wall corresponding with where the copper tubing is
Nice video!
Many freezers have the "extra ice" function. If this selection is available, it basically just sets the freezer temperature to a colder temperature for 24 hours. The rate of ice production is determined by how fast the water, which enters the ice cube mold, gets to a temperature below freezing.
Only when the temperature of the ice cube molding tray gets to that temperature, will the ice-maker cycle to the next step in the sequence. The next step is to briefly turn on the electric heater in the mold to melt the edges of the cubes and allow the ejection fingers to sweep through the mold and release the cubes.
Most ice makers are placed at the top of the freezer compartment. Since "hot air rises" this is not the most productive environment , but most freezers have a circulation fan which forces the cold evaporator (also called the freezer coil) air to the top of the freezer compartment and across the ice maker.
If the incoming temperature of the water was 90° F , it would take 32 calories to take a gram of water to the freezing temperature, but it takes an additional 80 calories to convert that 32° F water to 32° ice. It is this "phase change" of water to ice that requires the most energy. That would mean that it would take a total of 112 calories to convert a gram of 90° water to 32° ice. If the water entering the ice-maker could be prechilled to 32° F then a total of only 80 calories would be needed and would only result in about a 30% increase in production.
It would be an interesting experiment to take a circulation fan to pull air from the bottom of the freezer and duct it into the ice maker to see how much this improves production.
If you watch my next videos you'll see two ice makers and fans. Production is way up. Thanks for watching
Most refrigerators have a long loop of the water line inside tge registration side before it goes to the freezer ice maker for pre chilling, however all the energy used to pre chill the water is the same either way because all of the cooling coming from the freezer side so i doubt you will saved electricity, the evaporatorfan might help chill the compartments and iced maker s little faster is all but the fan allay ads heat into the compartment from its motor
Interesting
So unfortunately the only calories currently for me are the Hershey Almond bar lol 😆
People like you make the world go around!! Bravo to you man!! Much respect+!
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Genius!! Your gonna piss off lots of corporate people!!
Well they better get to building one and selling
fill the tube with sand and use a hair dryer to bend the tube works great.
You can also bake the sand in a pan then pour it into the tube
Pro tip: get a silicone cake pan from the thrift store. Make big blocks of ice to keep your coolers cold longer.
Bonus pro tip: keep the ice blocks in a cooler in your freezer. That keeps your ice and cooler ready to go
You'll enjoy next week's video, I'm already planning on making block ice to assist the cubes and to increase thermal mass in the ice maker. Also testing electricity usage
Good tip, and you could supercharge the insulation with another layer of polyurethane/polyisocyanurate foam and some thin plywood. Then out in the garage it will be far more efficient.
I've had this exact idea for years, but life happened and never got around to it. Several helpful tips that I didn't think of on the mounting and water routing. Thanks a bunch.
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Absolutely badass, love your technique at going at this!
You can fill the pvc with sand before heating will let you bend without crimping.... courtesy of Iraqi "plumbing" expert I learned it from.....
Sand sure as hell ain't in short supply in the "Land Between the Rivers"
It really works, I had to do that on a project a while back
Another guy heats the sand and pour it in the pipe and then wraps it through a jig to form the curves he wants. The sand stays hot while he bends it around the various curves. I think he was making some kind of roller coaster.
Excellent idea. Great production. I thought about this years ago. Can’t believe you executed on it so well.
Cheers!
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Ingenious. Fun to watch you work. Smart play to blow through that tube while bending.
I love it when a guy is not afraid to modify new equipment to build a project. You are spot on with your assessment comparing like the Nugget ice commercial ice maker to a home type half moon ice maker. We have both. The only issue with the half moon cube is it has a tendency to melt and fuse together into a big chunk in a ice chest. The commercial Nugget ice has air in it and melts very fast and is not a good choice for ice chests. Good job and thanks for posting!
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i just freeze 1 gallon pails of water, that block last 4x as long or put whole cooler in freezer 1/4 full of water and that will last 4 x as long. then you only need a min of ice to go in between
I usually freeze water bottles, that way you can drink it when it thaws, but they don’t have the surface area to cool down as quickly, so I have noticed a difference between that and pebble/ cubed ice
I have been doing block ice for a long time also if you brake it into large chunks and put it in a yeti style cup the ice will last all day well as long as your liquid isn’t hot/warm but still last a long time
I've been using brownie pans making thick blocks. They fit perfect in the bottom of my cooler or can use them as divider or break them up.
Great idea. An old trick I learned from building kegerators and keezers for homebrew... Turn the chest freezer on and let it run a while completely shut. Then get a spray bottle mixed with vodka and cornstarch where it looks like milky water. Spray the outside. You'll see it haze along the lines where the chiller coils are after about 15 minutes because the alcohol will be evaporated by the hot coils and should give you a really good idea where you can drill for lines. I've seen people do it with water on the inside too but this one seems to be a bit more definitive.
Just came upon your site. I sure enjoyed the video. Been wanting an ice maker. This is awesome. I also enjoyed reading all the comments from others. Lots of smart people with great suggestions! I have nothing but praise and gratitude to offer. I did subscribe and hit the thumbs up.
Thank you very much
THANK YOU!!! this is what I need, but I need it to run only from 11pm to 7am when I only pay 1cent/kwh, but hopefully not melt during the rest of the 16 hours/day. I can use a $5 smartplug with a smartspeaker routine to easily do that.
To bend pvc or other rigid plastic tubing cap one end, fill your tube with HOT sand (400 degrees heated in the oven) cap the other end, wait a few minutes for the platic to heat up make your bends, and dump the sand
I seen large PVC vent into 90* angles with... a bucket of hot water and and metal pipe. Slip over pipe and alittle muscle should work. I'm a unemployed REGISTERED Nurse. I worked day Labor* places to get a couple bucks in my pockets.
Thank you so very much. I’ve been looking for an affordable ice solution for weeks. Sincerely appreciate your hard work and clever problem solving. Best Wishes!
Keep looking on the channel, there are a lot of videos with simple upgrades to really increase ice production.
Love how your tools are so organized! Nice video.
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This came on my recommendations, I have no idea why but thank you TH-cam. This was a joy to watch from start to finish! Excellent job
4 more ice maker videos ready for you
I worked in the ice business in the 80s they did have a refrigerent called Supercool, that doubled our ice output. If your system can handle it, I’d find a technician that was willing to try it.
Good work. That type of icemaker is usually 120 volts.
They usually wait 24 hours and throw away the first batch of 'cubes'.
The needle clamp is usually called a saddle valve, but I like what you called it better.
Some people make refrigerators out of those freezers and they are way more efficient and cost less. Usually the only thing stopping the ones who want to try that is their significant other who likes a French-door fridge. :)
I made myself an ice maker following your design, very simple and a single ice maker is enough for what I need, thank you.
Awesome! Thanks for watching
We run a drink business and to supplement our ice maker, we just add water to a bucket like yours (around two thirds full) and just leave it inside the freezer to freeze up. When it’s reached solid ice, we remove it from the bucket mold and set aside and repeat. We fill up our ice freezer pretty quick, depending on the bucket size and we have larger block ice instead of just cubes. All you’ll need is an ice pick to size the ice blocks to your needs. Suggest lining the bottom of your freezer with wood strips, plywood or styrofoam. It helps when water accumulates and you need to defrost and drain it quick. It will also save your freezer deck when you have heavy items drop accidentally. Lol.
Great video! Good luck and have fun on your upcoming outdoor adventures!
Does the bucket ever break?
@@AJ-rm7yy over time, yes. But its my experience that those leak sealing tapes sold at the big box stores extends use. Otherwise, those cheap buckets like the one in the vid are well.. cheap. Other inexpensive plastic food containers work well too.
Was so glad to hear that you were already aware that the freon lines were run in the walls of the freezer! I'm sure more than one person has ruined a great project by drilling into the side of a planned Kegorator!!! haha Great project Andrew!
Oh yeah I've had enough experience in my life with refrigerators, AC units Etc
@@TKCL -- There's 2 types of lines that you need to be concerned about -- the ones where the cold liquid refrigerant are running and the ones that are used as a heat exchanger with the outside air to move the heat extracted from inside the unit to the surrounding room. It used to be that the latter were mounted to the exterior of the unit, but that is not necessarily the case these days... If you don't see the coils on the exterior or underneath the unit, it might be in the wall... Another clue that this might be the case is if the walls of the unit are noticeably warmer than the surrounding room... When cutting through the wall on the refrigerator that I converted into a kegerator, I started out with a small hole on the outside wall with a drill stop attached so that the hole would only go through the metal skin... From there, I took an very thin shaft screwdriver and gently forced it through the foam, paying attention to whether it seemed to encounter anything along the way... One at the inner wall, I took a long drill bit and while drilling from the outside, allowed it to drill through the inside wall... I then used a larger drill bit to get to the size that I needed for the CO2 hose... Drilled the inside and outside surfaces first and then used the screwdriver to gently poke through the rest of the insullation, paying attention to any resistance from wires or coolant lines... Because of the design of the refrigerator, I was pretty sure there were no coolant lines in the side wall, but there was a possibility of there being electrical lines going through there...
Could one use shrink wrap for your Electric wires.
Thanks very good.
A idea I was thinking is measure the hinges where the freezer lid mounts on the back and use some metal to make the lid sit higher. Then get some expandable weather seal and line the top of the freezer and run hoses or wires through seal instead of notching the freezer. If it don’t work. Just remount the lid back and remove the weather seal. Keep your factory warranty 😂
Good idea!
Well done sir. Such a great idea and really great video!! I will have to make one soon!
I like the idea as DIY project. The cost and simplicity of the design are pluses. Thanks for sharing this video.
Thank You so much , iI have been running this idea thru my head for about 2 years now & this video helps me decide to go ahead with the project.
Awesome, glad it helped! I've been enjoying mine!
@@TKCL do you know how many amps the ice maker draws? I found one for free in an old working standard refrigerator. I was thinking about using it in a cooler to build one of those DIY air conditioners that you fill with ice & water. But trying to use it inside the cooler as a submerged water chiller instead of a normal ice maker that wouldn't need connected to a water line or solenoid.
Same
Same
I do not, but I'm getting a killawatt meter Friday and will be testing energy usage next week. Video out soon
Tip. Lamp wire has a stripped side meaning its for neutral and the smooth its hot
Cool build man!! Once you get that second ice maker it’s going to be a perfect set up
Two ice makers and a fan tripled my production. Videos are on the channel, building a new DIY friendly ice maker right now, video out soon.
My brother! thank you, you have done an excellent job! I can’t wait until the second video. Looking forward to it. God blessed you, and thank you for taking the initiative. 🙏
Three more videos already out, watch until the end of this one and they pop up.
I know you labeled them so you remember. But, the ribbed wire(identified) is the neutral. You just remember that. Looking at the plug(on an extension cord) you'll see the neutral is wider blade and the thinner blade is the hot.
Thank you for the information
You're very welcome. As an electrician, my mind wouldn't let it go. Had to. Thanks
@@effyoo6081 I came to say the same thing but you already beat me to it
This is the sweetest TH-cam project I’ve seen in a long time. Nice job!
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Absolutely awesome job my friend! This is one of the very reasons I'm proud to be a country boy.......we know how to improvise, build, repair, and survive. May God continue to bless you and yours Andrew.
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@@TKCL You're very welcome!
Great ingenuity! Almost makes me want to try this. I need about 20 lbs. of ice on our camping trips, but we don’t go enough to justify. Thanks for sharing this
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It’s easy to find out where the coils are at. Turn on spray the walls with water in a mist spray bottle. It will show right away where the coils run. Not exactly but it will show where they run. The cable and hose location although not a huge escape of cold air it will affect the efficiency of the freezer a lot. It will run here and possibly ruin it or shorten the life of it. Cut lower into the freezer lip and silicone the are really good. No coils in that area for sure.
Thank you for the tip!
Still be careful the condenser is mounted to the outer shell that's why it's hotter on the outside
Flip on side on thin table. Apply ultrasound horn from under with fine sand on top. A pattern should emerge.
@@dunntanktrucks The compressor is in the bottom, that is what that one square block is in the bottom that lifts up from the rest.
@@SilvaDreams the CONDENSER is still where?
That is definitely a good use of and a worthy use of thinking inside the box, especially when you need just so much of an increase in production, rather than the increase in production on steroids, meaning an output that would be so high even the population of your city would be over supplied if one were go the route of the commercial size, both in cost and amount produced.
I love the video so I subbed, smacked the like button and rang the bell and I look forward to watching your other videos!!!
LOL you can see ice in the bottom of the freezer before he even turns it on for the "first time" 🤣 😂
My wife and I fish avidly. We use a LOT of ice. I've been trying to figure out a way to get ice cheaper. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for watching! Testing fans today for capacity increase, video out soon
@@TKCL It looks great but please don't use those saddle valve it can cause water damage later on. its actually banned to use by a plumber in most states. I will suggest you to use a sharkbite refrigerator valve which is allowed.
Fill the unused part of the freezer with something that takes up space and remove some of it as the ice fillies the chest.
We bought a huge chest freezer put the styrofoam packing in the freezer chest and it was down to zero in a couple hours.
You just add and remove the styrofoam as needed.
Great idea.👍
Amazon's got some really nice ice makers one for 126 that does 26 lb of ice in one day up to a $370 ice maker that does 100 lb today
I LOVE THIS! I dont even need one and i want one haha. Going to look for the update video right now. Awesome work
A full build and test series on the channel. Thanks for watching
Stumbled across this. Nice work!! Love this hack.
Several more videos of upgrades on the channel and I'm running tests right now
Randomly started watching this video because I like the idea of building your own, then ended up looking on marketplace for used Manitowoc ice machines. I thought “no way a twenty year old used ice machine is $2000+” and boy was I wrong. I think if I used that much ice I’d go this route too.
Amazon sells a commercial ice machine for $350.
Makes small hollow cubes that melt quickly. That's not good for coolers and fish boxes.
@@TKCL I think you're thinking of a counter top ice maker. The one I'm talking about sits on the floor and is a small commercial ice maker that keeps the ice frozen and makes square cubes, up to 88 lbs within 24hrs.
I'm very use to those, we use to use them and the big commercial ones at work all the time. They broke down often and had small square ice cubes with hollow indentations. Fine for drinking ice, horrible for filling coolers and fish boxes. That ice does not last.
To avoid Locate your coils is to simply turn it on and you'll be able to feel where they're at sometimes you can even see the pattern as it forms condensation in the coils pattern
You could put a mister against the walls to show pattern easier too
Love this job! Going to build me one now... Just subscribe to your channel. Love it when people save money and build their own idea that work!!! Thanks for posting. Many blessings to you and your family fishing...
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This video randomly popped up. I've been wanting to add an ice maker to my deep freezer. You're video told me just what I needed to know. Thank you
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More videos coming
Totally brilliant! You earned my sub just for being that genius! I’ve been looking at countertop ice makers but, like you said, they just continually produce and recycle melting ice!
They don't store much either! Thank you for watching
Cool project! Nice job. One idea, I think you could use a thermal imaging camera to identify the coils and drill through the walls of the freezer to have a cleaner build. Camera might show coils better when unit is first turned on, b/c the temp difference of coils vs. walls/sides of freezer.
I have been looking at a flir model.
titanebay didn't watch the video.
I’m thinking seriously about trying this!
I just found your channel. High-quality video, thumbs up, and thanks for posting! Subscribed.
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Here's an even easier way of doing this if you drink milk or anything that comes in a large bottle you clean that bottle fill it full of water stick it in your freeze And like magic overnight you have a big block of ice that you can now slam on the ground a few times break it up throw it in a bag or whatever and you have ice. No modifications need ed
But this is way cooler.
@@FinestDerp - Nice pun...
Well I need 10,000 lbs of ice a day to run my company can you fill that order for me?
The refrigerant in your “freezemaker” is most likely R-290, which is high grade non-scented liquid propane. When manufacturing they keep the amount of refrigerant charge very low with R-290,so that if there is a catastrophic incident, it is small. Very cool stuff man, great ingenuity!
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With the panel removed to access the compressor area, there is a sticker that says the unit is charged with C5H10 (cyclopentane). Apparently it has little greeenhouse gas effect and is being used rather than stuff like R134a in refrigerators.
Awesomeness! And once it fills up they won't be running all the time
It's full now, I added fans and a second ice maker. Getting 13lbs a day in a 100 degree shop. More videos on the channel
I was watching a video on chisels and the different kinds, how use them and your TH-cam video was at the end along with other project and I have spent the last several hours watching the different stages you have gone through and loved every minute of them and the many comments on them. I am eighty three and have the time and will subscribe so I can see your finished project. As for the comments I think you do a great job of handling them. Keep up the excellent work you are doing and look forward to your next project.
Thank you very much for the support and feedback!
the next time ur trying to get water, so close to a faucet, get one of those tee fittings that screws onto an existing angle valve feeding ur faucet instead of that pos piercing tap.
Also, they sell braided stainless ice maker water supply lines. A better choice if ur not looking to flood ur garage if that cr*p plastic tubing decides to give way.
In MA those Valves are against code..
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I replied to this on the wrong post. Just want to be clear. The Tee fitting you mentioned is good, but the the piercing valves are against code...
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@@luisalvarez8266 u didn't repond wrong. piecing valves suck ass.
Great idea, my only recommendation is adding foam insulation around and on top of your freezer. That will make a big difference in the energy you use and make your ice that much cheaper. We live off grid and it's a big difference on our batteries with the foam added to our freezer.
Working on it, thanks
The freezer needs the space around it to cool down .If you cover a freezer with insulation it will be destroyed.The freezer emits heat from the side panels which needs to be displaced.
I love this
My hubby demoed a state building we got 3 ice makers outta it . I sold them fir thousand each . I woulda kept one but power is pricey . I like your idea
Thank you for your great idea. This idea of yours became useful for my family needs. Thank you again.
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This guy has a WHOLE BOAT in his garage and still has more space than my house🥺
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You're assuming that is a garage and not his house. Lol
So what?
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Tack rigid insulation all around and underneath. That really helps.
last time checked the sides of most freezers get hot and you would be trapping heat in.
That's my thinking. Definitely Insulate the lid though
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That is thinking outside the box! I have wanted an icemaker forever. I am going to do this. I think I'll put two in there to keep up with the demand. Thank you Einstein! Thanks for fixing the icemaker problem for me.
Keep watching the videos on the channel, I added two ice makers and a fan. Production dramatically increased.
I would have never thought of this idea in a billion years.
If you look at the replacement part blow out at the back of the owners manual, it will show you where the evaporator and condenser are sitting which would allow you to feed everything through while also being able to seal it off.
Or the door
This style freezer doesn’t have an evaporator. The condenser lines are run throughout the freezer walls. There are no diagrams that show the locations of these refrigerant lines. Parts diagrams only show the “replacement” parts. The refrigerant lines in the walls are not serviceable.
@@ljslw EVERY refrigerator system uses an evaporator, even if its an orfice tube stuffed into the liguid line and bent up to mimic a more conventional evap coil.
My old freezer didn't have a fan in it. I found that the top was like 30 degrees warmer than the bottom. Use a thermometer to check if you have a significant difference in temp. if you do, you can do what I did. Make a vertical duct in the corner and mount a computer fan on the top of it. The fan sucks cold air from the bottom. You could probably blow the coldest air directly at the ice maker. Add a switch so that when the door is opened the fan shuts off. This stops the cold air from being blown out and the warm moist air from being drawn in when you open it.
Installing two fans today and testing, video out soon
Yes it will make a lot more ice that way
I'll know by tomorrow
You ever notice the freezers at the supermarkets with no lids on the freezers. Fans need to draw air and installing a fan in that type freezer makes no sense to me. Just sayin
@@MrKoladge hot air rises cold air drops. a fan will mix the air creating a more uniform temp in the freezer. it's pretty amazing how much temp will change in a freezer from top to bottom because of the lack of airflow.
Ok this is a great idea. I am watching your videos in order so can’t wait to see how this project progresses
Thank you for watching! Still more tests coming!
Excellent video!
Great Design!
That is great bang for the buck!!!
The wire with the ridges is your common on most any application, the smooth is line..
Thank you for the information
If present... Ridged wires are ALWAYS neutral...
The side with the ridges on it is neutral. It typically connects to the polarized blade of the plug.
it's AC
Cool idea! You explained the economics really well too, thanks for the vid!
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Amazing idea! You nailed it….well done!
Thank you so much 😀