The manager of the Alpine Ice Arena, Mr Gerry Austin, with some of the thousands of plastic tubes exposed during a recent thaw of the Papanui rink. It took four days to thaw the 500 sq m rink for maintenance and the removal of a plastic insulation film. Ice was taken from the rink in chunks and left to thaw outside. Glycol will be pumped back into the plastic tubes, and it will take three days for the rink to freeze. The arena will open again on February 27. —Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER
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93The manager of the Alpine Ice Arena, Mr Gerry Austin, with some of the thousands of plastic tubes exposed during a recent thaw of the Papanui rink. It took four days to thaw the 500 sq m rink for maintenance and the removal of a plastic insulation film. Ice was taken from the rink in chunks and left to thaw outside. Glycol will be pumped back into the plastic tubes, and it will take three days for the rink to freeze. The arena will open again on February 27. —Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER Press, 10 February 1988, Page 1
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