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Portable Ice maker

dtgunner7
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What kind of water do you use in your portable ice makers, saw that tap water and distilled doesn't work well for very long..
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mlts22
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Tap water. Distilled water tastes "blah", deionized water tastes worse.

DeanRIowa
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Tap water from our well.
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We use a Camco Evo water filter, so far no issues using tap water in ours.
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We use tap water, unless it tastes odd, and then bottled drinking water. Either way has always been just fine. We've had our ice maker over 7 years, and it works like a charm still.
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Plain ole drinking water in mine...no taste or function issues...but then the Crown would cover any ice taste anyway...lol.
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Tap water 100% of the time, works perfectly.
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Out of the tap, into the ice maker!
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MrWizard
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we use machine dispensed reverse osmosis ? water for our ice machine

or just buy bottled water, depends on whats available
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bob213
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Halmfamily wrote:
We have a Brita Filtered water pitcher that we use to fill the ice machine. Takes the nasty tatse out of the ice. Going on three years with our machine and no problems


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JoeTampa
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Bottled spring water for all drinking and ice since CG water varies too much in quality/taste to count on.
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elwood58
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MrWizard wrote:
elwood58 wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
Why wouldn't distilled water work well? Seems like it would be the obvious choice.


Distilled water is one of the only things that will corrode stainless steel. Good for you, but not good for many metals.


NO it will NOT

your are thinking of De-ionized water


that can be corrosive to somethings


My mistake, it is Di water that can be a problem.
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elwood58 wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
Why wouldn't distilled water work well? Seems like it would be the obvious choice.


Distilled water is one of the only things that will corrode stainless steel. Good for you, but not good for many metals.


I have a 12 gallon "Life Mist" water distiller that is made of stainless steel. It's 11 years old. No corrosion anywhere.
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