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WE ARE GETTING READY TO RE-INSTALL OUR ICE. OUR DASHER BOARDS HAVE NOT HAD ANY MAINTENANCE SINCE LAST SEASON. ARE THERE ANY GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW FOR DASHER BOARD MAINTENANCE? There are no formal logbooks for dasher board maintenance. Find the original documentation for your dasher board system. The documents should provide you with some guidelines for installation and basic care. If you cannot locate the original owner's documents, contact the manufacturer. Ask for some insight over the phone. If all else fails, create an in-house maintenance procedure and save it as a standard operating procedure for your operations department. Bring in those operations employees that deal with the dasher boards on a regular basis. If you have a venue that performs regular conversions for dry floor events, bring in the supervisors and crew members that deal with the boards. If your venue doesn't perform changeovers, then take your operations supervisors and spend a day with the system learning the features. Document your boards and create a parts inventory for items that need to be on hand in case of an emergency. A detailed diagram showing the boards, glass and related components will be a great guide for creating an in-house procedure and logbook for the dasher board system. Once your procedure is in place, commit the time and labor to perform annual maintenance on your system. I AM A NEW RINK MANAGER AND HAVE A BACKGROUND IN GROUNDS AND MAINTENANCE. I WAS APPROACHED BY OUR FIGURE SKATING CLUB REGARDING THE ICE BEING TOO COLD. SHOULD I BE RUNNING DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES FOR DIFFERENT USER GROUPS? Short answer: Yes. There are several reasons for this. Different skating activities require slight differences in ice surface temperatures. Hockey will typically operate between 22-24 degrees Fahrenheit. Figure skating prefers a warmer temperature between 24-26 degrees. Speed skating prefers 19-21 degrees. Aside from appeasing your user groups, running these temperatures can actually help you. Raising the temperatures of the surface requires less work from the compressor system, which can translate into energy savings. Study the lead time it takes your system to go from one set point to the next so you have an idea of when you need to adjust the compressors to yield the appropriate temperatures when a specific user group takes the ice. Providing proper surface temperatures also helps with ice maintenance. Running temperatures too cold for figure skating can lead to blow-outs from jumps and spins. Too warm for speed skating will yield bad groves in the attack zones where they make the turns. Too warm for hockey and the puck bounces all over. Too cold for hockey and they will chew up the ice and cut too deep during transitions for your staff to repair during a normal ice make. J ASK STAR You have rink questions, STAR has rink answers Send your rink questions to: INFO@STARRINKS.COM 46 / SEPTEMBER.OCTOBER.2016 RINKMAGAZINE.COM A: A: Q: Q: SOUTHWESTERN LEADER IN COMPLETE ICE ARENA SERVICES CompleteIceArenaServices.com /CompleteIAS Specializing in Servicing all makes and models Brandon Klement: 612.685.6506 , Document your boards and create a parts inventory for items that need to be on hand in case of an emergency.