Commercial Ice Makers

[jtdumallard]

Looking for one for my office. Anywhere in the metro area carry them? Anybody on here sell them?

[dukluk]

I bought a Maxx Ice (75 pound model) last year from Lowes....I put it in my lake house, where we use a lot of ice for icing down fish, kid's drinks, etc....I've never seen an ice machine make ice so fast.
They must be good machines because I see them in the Cabelas catalogs, now.

[teul2]

I am not any help on locating a dealer, but buy one that you can get service on local and parts are easy to come by.
We have 2 at our fire dept, a 1000 lb per day model and a 300 lb per day Hoshizaki. One of the two is ALWAYS broken. I think today was the first time in a year both of the were working at the same time. Apparently it is kind of an inherent issue of the machine. I don't know.
Just be sure parts and service is easy to come by local.

[Wildfowler]

Wonder why in refrigerator / freezer icemakers seem to be bulletproof and standalone icemakers seem to always have problems ?

[Jeff]

The rule of thumb I have heard for a while on stand alone ice makers is always buy new, keep for about two years sell for about 1K and buy another new one. They are that prone to problems....

[jcthorne]

There are only two brands that you need to consider.

Ice o Matic or manitowoc.

They are all prone to problems but these two are far and away the best brands. Buy the extended warranty........