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Mr. Sandman · 11-26-2011, 08:33 AM

I looked into the sea ice machines and they are mainly intended for large commercial operations and are very expensive and big and heavy.

I was thinking of installing a smaller used FW ice maker(just the headportion) inside the top portion of fishbox (I have a large fishbox). And when I am dockside and have a hose and electric power it can make cubes and let them fall directly into the fish box. Otherwise it will be off. I know I will have to protect it from fish gunk but this might work.

I hate hauling large bags of ice around and my fishbox needs at least 150# of cubes to have any meaningful amount of ice in it. Half the time I need it at 10:00 at night and I am making calls to friends who run resturants and tackle stores to raid their machine. The box can take probably 400# easy. (and I have 2 boxes this size in deck + two big fishbags that can hold more if needed.)

I was going to go down and talk to my local refrig/AC guy who I know rebuilds and resells ice machines and ask him about installing a water cooled unit on board.

What do you think? Have I lost my mind or is this a good idea?

11-26-2011, 08:33 AM	#1
Mr. Sandman Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 7,649	Is this a bad idea? topic on board icemaker I looked into the sea ice machines and they are mainly intended for large commercial operations and are very expensive and big and heavy. I was thinking of installing a smaller used FW ice maker(just the headportion) inside the top portion of fishbox (I have a large fishbox). And when I am dockside and have a hose and electric power it can make cubes and let them fall directly into the fish box. Otherwise it will be off. I know I will have to protect it from fish gunk but this might work. I hate hauling large bags of ice around and my fishbox needs at least 150# of cubes to have any meaningful amount of ice in it. Half the time I need it at 10:00 at night and I am making calls to friends who run resturants and tackle stores to raid their machine. The box can take probably 400# easy. (and I have 2 boxes this size in deck + two big fishbags that can hold more if needed.) I was going to go down and talk to my local refrig/AC guy who I know rebuilds and resells ice machines and ask him about installing a water cooled unit on board. What do you think? Have I lost my mind or is this a good idea?