[TheForge] Re: slack tub

[Bruce Freeman]

A similar trick is to put a hollow rubber ball (like a basketball) in the =
tub - a heavy one that floats low.  This provides expansion room for the =
ice.

Bruce
NJ

>>> dann@wctatel.net 11/14/02 12:39PM >>>

Actually, my slack tub (5 gallon plastic bucket)  froze up a few times =
last=20
winter, but not hard enough that it broke the bucket.  I read in a book=20
somewhere that a oak board stuck standing up in the slack tub will help =
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on ice expansion, but that probably is for the first couple of inches =
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