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Anyone experimented with heating up cold water to resurface with? I tried hooking up to my hot water heater and resurfacing that way, but by the time water goes through 150' of hose (laying in the snow) it's cooled way down. I was thinking of using propane heat, a coil of copper tubing (3/8 or 1/2") and heating up the water as it leaves the tank that's mounted on my four wheeler. Just some crazy ideas......

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Comment by David Niles on April 2, 2012 at 11:12pm: For the comments on using hotwater and laundry sink etc, the issue is he's running alot of hose and having the water cool off to much so just doing some brainstorming to find a better solution.

Moving my rink to the backyard this upcoming season so going to need alot more hose also, will have to see how bad it cools on me too and maybe figure something out..

Comment by Angelo Talluto on February 20, 2012 at 10:14pm: I connect to my laundry sink to get hot water. I've had great success with my rink despite the weather and I feel a big part of it is flooding with hot water. (the other being constant shade). If you have access to a laundry sink, buy or connect a really long hose and run it from there.

Comment by Daniel robitaille on January 31, 2012 at 10:37pm: You have another option just use the propane heat to melt the top layer and let it refreeze

I saw a unit looked like a box (flame under it )2 propane tanks on top and you pulled it around on the rink. It was for places like lakes but would work in a back yard. can't find the link

but here one to the patent http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20110146111

Comment by brianjay5g on January 31, 2012 at 7:07pm: see my pictures on my profile for how I connect to my laundry sink. best method. choose your temperature.