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   DaveRicheson | Jul 24, 2006 06:31pm | #1

   Wrong filter?

   Have them check what was taken off vs. what it was replaced with. There are filters for a multitude of different water condition.

   Maybe the first option is to dump all the ice and let it make a new batch. Is the new batch doesn't smell, problem is solved.

    

   Dave

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   torn | Jul 24, 2006 07:46pm | #2

   ice will absorb odors from the freezer...  A fresh batch of ice shouldn't smell.  If it does, then go back down the line (filter, water line, etc.)  If it doesn't, check the freezer for the source of the odor...

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   DanH | Jul 24, 2006 07:48pm | #3

   All ice cubes smell funny. The freezing process concentrates any water smell in that little fuzzy center part of the cube.

   Dump the existing ice cubes, make sure there's nothing yucky in the icemaker mechanism, and replace the filter. Be sure to get a filter (activated charcoal) with taste/odor rating.

   Won't make the ice cubes scentless, but may improve things significantly.

   Commercial ice-makers use a freezing process that discards 5-10% of the water, after the ice is mostly frozen. This eliminates most of the taste/odor.

   If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
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   rez | Jul 24, 2006 08:26pm | #4

   As a kid whenever I visited I told my Aunt that she had vegetable ice seeing the cola always had that veggie taste from frozen veggies in the freezer.To this day she still does it and I dare never say a word about it as she didn't think the comment was cute then when all the other kids started saying the same thing.

   be a carrot and green pepper float

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   todd | Jul 24, 2006 10:25pm | #5

   Thanks for the replies. Mom says that the ice was fine before the filter change. Guess it's time for a dump (of ice) and filter check. Thanks,

   Todd