[TheForge] Slack tank

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

On 12/17/2010 4:59 PM, peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> Off the top of my head...a plastic bottle with lead in the bottom and
> air in the top should do it.
>
> On 12/17/2010 2:34 PM, xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
>> The air pillow is very bouyant, but the pool cover it supports is not.
>> The air pillow caused the cover to peak and shed water better and
>> insures a dead layer of air (insulation) between the pool water and the
>> cover.   Beyond that, the purpose of an ice compensator is to give the
>> ice someplace to go, much like freeze plugs on a car (which I have never
>> had save a block, but have had destroy one from overheating when they
>> rusted out and ruptured).   What would be the mechanism whereby
>> something floating above the ice layer would provide protection?
>>
>> Charles
>>
Fill it with clinker.   Finally a use for it.   Perfect solution.    Of 
course, I think I'll just add some of that awful Scots whisky to my 
slack tub as antifreeze.  Though I will allow it has been marginally 
improved over the last couple of decades since they have taken to aging 
it in fine American bourbon barrels.

Charles