Ryan sent me an e-mail last night and thought the product was too fizzy.
It's nice to have a video to see it in operation, first of all I can tell that the Texas heat is just killing you, when you have 90 degree water and air temp, this dispensers cold plate is just not big enough to cool the product down from these temps which causes sputtering at the valve because the carbonated water is not cold enough coming out and all the CO2 is escaping. This causes excess foam also when your dispensing. What also happens is you get bridging in the ice bin where the ice in contact with the plate melts quickly and forms a bridge so no ice is touching the plate, you need to tamp down the ice often when your dealing with these temps. Warm dispensing temps = foamy, flat pop.
Second, Ryan thought it tasted pretty good, I didn't know he was going to get Diet Coke instead of Coke. I can see that his drink is way too strong just by looking at the flow, he can't tell this because it is almost impossible to tell if a drinks mixture is too strong as to when it's too weak. It's easy for me to see after watching pop flow for 25 years.
Back in the 50's there was no Diet Coke and this dispenser was set up just for Coke, the viscosity difference between the two is large, diet Coke being the consistency of water and Coke having the consistency of maple syrup.
The flow regulating orifice is way too big for Diet product and there is really nothing you can do to alter the water flow to accommodate this. Unless that soda fountain place has a orifice setup for diet. it needs to be about half the opening of the orifice that's on there.
So were kind of in the same boat as the ice maker, we need to have some relief from the Texas heat or move everything inside.
It's great to see this Super back in operation, there can't be more than a handful still operating.
One other thing! Get the right glass! you need the original bell shaped 6-1/2 oz glass instead of that fluted imposter!
