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Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« on: January 05, 2006, 10:14:41 am »
DANG! term beat me to the pic-o-da-day.....

I got an email this morning, basically it was about the difficulties setting up a hot tub in a third world country...



This picture is from New Years eve, with near beer and "fake" champaign





I'll be sending out a hugh package of supplies to an APO address later today.
« Last Edit: January 05, 2006, 10:16:42 am by lets »
If you can't sell it on eBay, it may not even qualify as landfill.

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Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« on: January 05, 2006, 10:14:41 am »

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Re: Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2006, 11:29:15 am »
Thats a pretty impressive set up.  Looks better than mine.

I especially like whats in the water.   ;D  Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2006, 05:03:00 pm »
Those are cool pics, I guess I missed it yesterday.

Did you send that to them or did they build it themselves?

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Re: Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2006, 07:49:57 pm »
Designed and built it themselves. Took em about two months, working in their off hours. The plastic inside is from a damaged 1000 gallon water storage tank. I'm assuming they put the boards around the outside to give it some strength and stability. I don't yet know much about the water pumping system, but the pictures I got this morning show what looks like a little dinky 25 sq. ft. filter............... no wonder they say they're having water clarity problems...... I'm going to have to call my PentAir rep on Monday and see if they'll donate a 100 sq. ft. filter.

After that, they started getting creative :-). I was wrong about them having installed an air blower. What they actually did was run a line from an air compressor! (I got a pic if interested)... For heat, they got a heated power washer from the motor pool and run 1/3 of the circulated water through it........... Yeah, I got those pics too.
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Re: Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2006, 12:23:01 am »
Great New Year Shots Doc,
Brings back thoughts of the ol' days. Looks like they got their hands on some nice cedar or is it yellow pine?   The straps did a great job of keeping everything nice and tight. It looks to be atleast 4' deep. Are there any benches in there or are they standing? Did they plumb any jets or just bubbles from the air compressor? Dave.

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Re: Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2006, 12:03:55 pm »
Post em Doc, I'd like to see them and I'm sure others would, too.

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Re: Hot Tub Pic O' the Day 1-5-06  (more serious)
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2006, 12:41:10 pm »
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Post em Doc, I'd like to see them and I'm sure others would, too.

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I'm working on doing an entire web page on these guys. Due to the time difference, and other "duties" requiring more immediate attention, communications are going a bit slow.  ;D

I'll let ya know in a day or two when I have something together.
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