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Old 09-22-2005, 06:54 AM   #14
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Default Ice and docks

Jim Bob

Can you get me more information on the linear compressor. I will have to retire my home made circulator soon and with electricity selling for $123.50 wholesale (I work for the power company) I am ready for a more energy efficient system.

Also about the ice flows....I have saved a coupple of docks in my neighborhood (Braun Bay) lashing 1 1/2 steel pipes (the kind that are used for temporary docks) at an angle between the lake bottom and the deck of the dock. When the ice flow meets the pipes it rides up the pipe and breaks into smaller, less damaging pieces. My dock is rather shallow and a deeper dock may require poles that are too long to haldle.

'Works for me. Hope that this is a help.
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