Wow, this is an old thread! I went to check my eBay history for part numbers to give you, but it doesn't go back that far. In the basement below the ice maker, I have a McCann pressure booster pump that boosts the water pressure to 90 PSI. After the pressure booster I tee off for the still water and for the McCann Big Mac carbonator (You can find deals on them used on eBay if you're patient). I feed the carbonator and the syrup pumps from a 20lb Co2 tank. You also need a cold plate - whatever you can find cheap - if it's got too many passages, just loop your seltzer through it multiple times, a regulator (get one with two gauges!). Everything is plumbed with .375 pex, and clamped together with oetiker clamps. You need to drill four holes in the back of the ice maker - just be careful and make sure you don't drill through anything important. There's nothing hidden to avoid, everything you don't want to hit is right where you can see it - there's basically only one place where you'll find room for four holes. I chose the hole size based on what the local hardware store had rubber grommets for that also fit my tubing. The back of the unit is foam insulation sandwiched between sheet metal and plastic. The holes in the metal and plastic need to be perfectly concentric to prevent leaks, so use a small pilot drill, and a step drill to bring the holes to size. Making the holes and feeding the hose in is the only real "hard" part. And even then it's only hard because you have to get it right the first time. The two water lines go into the ice maker, clamp to the cold plate (leave enough loops of pipe behind the unit to be able to pull it out of when you need to), then out of the cold plate to the manifold of a Wunderbar bar gun. I wish I had gotten a more traditional seltzer tower, since I hardly ever use the post-mix, but I thought the bar gun was cool! I've had this running since 2016, and so far the only thing I've had trouble with is the pressure booster pump. McCann makes two models. The "cheap" one with the diaphragm pump, and the expensive one with the vane pump (16-2170) - I don't know if the expensive one is good, but I assume it is. I do know that diaphragm pumps universally suck - they're loud and they break. Don't get one! You do need some kind of pressure booster to get the water pressure up to 90-100 psi before feeding it into the setup though.

We just started carrying the Danby DIM3225BLSST which is under $1000. It's an interesting unit as it comes with a pump, can be drained by gravity, or manually drained if no drain is available. It has three choices for ice size. It has a fingerprint-less stainless steel finish. We just don't have a track record on it. The best residential icemaker by far is Hoshizaki. It's the most reliable and the parts can be easily removed without tools for cleaning. The AM-50 makes a "hat" style cube that's clear and great for drinks and coolers. It runs under $2000. The C-100BAF makes a "cubelet" style cube that's small (about the size and shape of a pez candy piece) and clear and hard so it won't melt too fast. Because it's small it can be chewed fairly easily. It runs around $2800. Hoshizaki was discovered by Wendy's when they built a store in Tokoyo. They noticed that the Hoshizaki icemaker didn't have service issues like the ones being used in the States. Wendy's struck a deal to have Hoshizaki icemakers installed in all their stores in America. It's the preferred brand for many commercial companies. Here is a link that might be useful: Hoshizaki C-100

As inspiration, the photos in this thread do their job. The photos are highly retouched / photoshopped. In the simplest photo showing the three pendants and the hood, look at the light: that alone will confirm to you it's all artificial, beyond all resemblance to reality. If you divide that photo into a dozen vertical strips, I can comment about the light and shadows in each of these strips. The photo work may have been done by a person who had a few goals to achieve. A goal might be to create envy and become the center of attention. A psychological goal. A goal might be to get paid by one or more sponsors. Perhaps the employer is an agency that was able to get several payments. Every photo shows products. These company's products are mentioned in the thread. Also, questions posted about other items are not answered well. That too is fishy and it constitutes sufficient ground all by itself to make one draw the conclusion that the internet is not always exactly what you might want it to be. Billions of dollars are spent on internet marketing; where does it end up on your computer screen? Welcome to the world of envy management. Buyer beware, things are not always what they appear to be, you get the picture. A few months before this thread started I saw a thread about someone building a new house and claiming to be buying eight slabs of granite for the kitchen. Since a slab is 40 or 50 square feet, it would have meant the kitchen was a very big room. Even billionaires do not have that size of kitchen. Hth

Depends on which machine. Look at the specs.