I wish I used more fore thought like you did with the little mini fan, jk I don't but I've got one even smaller than yours. The housing and basket are smaller same size and amount of ice probes though, I rarely turn mine off. I use a lot of ice on a daily basis. Its a necessary item for my chronic nausea. I unplug it and take it to the sink and use a straw cleaning brush, the sprayer hose from the sink and a lot of vinegar. From seeing other similar videos, its apparent that were all on the right track, I got the straw brush because I couldn't get my hand in the top rear to get to things easily. Its perfect and you can bend and shape it to get the backside if the probes, and everywhere.
I've had mine, different brand Silonn, for nearly a year.. no problem. The people that complain about the ice melting in the hopper... the hopper isn't refrigerated.it's going to melt if you don't use it or place in freezer right away. If they want a refrigerated hopper.. be prepared to spend triple. THese are great if your going to be around and want to make a bunch of ice and dump it as the hopper fills into the freezer, I tend to batch cook every other weekend since I'll be in the kitchen area anyhoo.. it's not a problem and you can make quite a bit in a few hours.... or use for a party on a cocktail table where you'd have available fresh ice.
Bro - exactly what I do... pour the ice in a gallon ziplock freezer bag... I have a mini fridge/freezer in my kitchen to hold drinks... and I keep frozen fruit in the mini freezer...but I have room for a bag of ice... It's so easy to manage ice making by dumping it into the zip lock freezer bag as you showed....pop in freezer... when the ice maker gets full...grab zip lock bag, break up the ice that's already in there that sticks together and dump the new ice in until it's full.... ..... The REASON I don't dump it straight from the ice maker to the freezer ice bin is because the ice is "wet" and it will stick together....once it's been in the mini freezer in the zip lock bag it's no longer wet ice... I can break it up, then put it into the freezer bin... I just make sure I have enoiugh ice made for a few days... then I don't bother with it for a few days... but I do drain water, wipe out with paper towel then use a fan to dry.... I think I've had it for maybe 2 weeks or so at this point... I will monitor with a flash light to make sure I see anything crazy... but I will run the clean cycle with vinegar and scrub it at least once a month.... by the way.. Mine is one of those electric clip fans... I have an open small area of my kitchen that doesn't get used so I have this little table I just keep the ice maker there so it's not on my actual kitchen counter.
Thanks for all the great tips. I forgot about the clean cycle! I had another thought. I have watched a few videos on repairing broken ice makers and it seems like the motor gets rusty. Makes me think that the fan will help keep the area on the top right interior where the motor arm attaches to the water container and steel rods dry. I bet water and moisture gets into the motor at that point and it causes the motor to rust.
@@youdoer Well there are a few videos I've seren of people that have had theirs 3 years and still works. I guess we'll see. I'm pretty lucky at taking care of stuff and not having things die on me prematurely (for the most part)... But if there is a defect like that... let's hope the fan helps
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I wish I used more fore thought like you did with the little mini fan, jk I don't but I've got one even smaller than yours. The housing and basket are smaller same size and amount of ice probes though, I rarely turn mine off. I use a lot of ice on a daily basis. Its a necessary item for my chronic nausea. I unplug it and take it to the sink and use a straw cleaning brush, the sprayer hose from the sink and a lot of vinegar. From seeing other similar videos, its apparent that were all on the right track, I got the straw brush because I couldn't get my hand in the top rear to get to things easily. Its perfect and you can bend and shape it to get the backside if the probes, and everywhere.
Great suggestion. Thanks. I think the fan and brush combination will work well. ✅
I've had mine, different brand Silonn, for nearly a year.. no problem. The people that complain about the ice melting in the hopper... the hopper isn't refrigerated.it's going to melt if you don't use it or place in freezer right away. If they want a refrigerated hopper.. be prepared to spend triple. THese are great if your going to be around and want to make a bunch of ice and dump it as the hopper fills into the freezer, I tend to batch cook every other weekend since I'll be in the kitchen area anyhoo.. it's not a problem and you can make quite a bit in a few hours.... or use for a party on a cocktail table where you'd have available fresh ice.
Thanks for sharing your positive experience. 🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊
Bro - exactly what I do... pour the ice in a gallon ziplock freezer bag... I have a mini fridge/freezer in my kitchen to hold drinks... and I keep frozen fruit in the mini freezer...but I have room for a bag of ice... It's so easy to manage ice making by dumping it into the zip lock freezer bag as you showed....pop in freezer... when the ice maker gets full...grab zip lock bag, break up the ice that's already in there that sticks together and dump the new ice in until it's full.... ..... The REASON I don't dump it straight from the ice maker to the freezer ice bin is because the ice is "wet" and it will stick together....once it's been in the mini freezer in the zip lock bag it's no longer wet ice... I can break it up, then put it into the freezer bin... I just make sure I have enoiugh ice made for a few days... then I don't bother with it for a few days... but I do drain water, wipe out with paper towel then use a fan to dry.... I think I've had it for maybe 2 weeks or so at this point... I will monitor with a flash light to make sure I see anything crazy... but I will run the clean cycle with vinegar and scrub it at least once a month.... by the way.. Mine is one of those electric clip fans... I have an open small area of my kitchen that doesn't get used so I have this little table I just keep the ice maker there so it's not on my actual kitchen counter.
Thanks for all the great tips. I forgot about the clean cycle!
I had another thought. I have watched a few videos on repairing broken ice makers and it seems like the motor gets rusty. Makes me think that the fan will help keep the area on the top right interior where the motor arm attaches to the water container and steel rods dry. I bet water and moisture gets into the motor at that point and it causes the motor to rust.
@@youdoer Well there are a few videos I've seren of people that have had theirs 3 years and still works. I guess we'll see. I'm pretty lucky at taking care of stuff and not having things die on me prematurely (for the most part)... But if there is a defect like that... let's hope the fan helps