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OVER AT WILLY TOWER WE MADE OUR OWN WATER..WE HAD A SNOW MELTER THAT RAN THRU OUR STOVE ..NICE THING WAS NO LIMIT TO THE SHOWER TIME, YOU JUST FILLED THE MELTER WHEN IT GOT LOW...BAD THING WAS THE HERCS TAXIED BY ALL THE TIME,SO IT ALWAYS SMELLED AND TASTED OF JP. - <LEGACY68@AOL.COM>

The Willy Field ice melter/water maker had a chute that the Equipment Ops guys used to dump snow in by the frontloader full. It had a grate on it to keep the big chunks out. In 1994 they shut it down to clean it out as the water was testing out to have a high acid and lead content. They found a broken industrial sized lead acid battery with a cracked case at the bottom of the melter along with a couple of dead Skuas. Yum! - Joe Hawkins <jmoto69@yahoo.com>

When they cleaned it out in 72 they found the whole front end loader. THAT'S WHY THEY PUT ON THE GRATE. - Bob <bokeefe@westol.com>

Building 155 originally had an emergency snow melter in the east corner of the building (on your right as you entered the galley from the sickbay side of 155). I saw it as part of my "Public Works" tour of the place in 1972. If I recall, it wasn't much bigger than the ones at Pole or Willy, and there certainly wasn't much white stuff around to dump into it! Bill Spindler- <spindle@attglobal.net>

When Uncle Billy first wintered over (DF-63) there was no running water any place except the heads, sickbay, and the galley. If you want to call it running water that is. The water was actually snow that had been scooped off the side of the hills up above Hut Point. If there was no snow in the hills then fresh water was pumped from Starr Lake into a tanker truck and was transfered to the heads, and so forth. The snow was dropped into the snow melters at the galley and the heads. The water in the head that Winter Over personnel used was next to the Heavy Shop and the Laundry was also part of the same complex. The water in the head always smelled like diesel fuel. Enough to make you gag when brushing your teeth. Just after the summer support left our UTs cleaned out the snowmelters. The one at the galley was found to contain a dead Skua Gull that was badly decomposed. It also contained a several dirty pair of waffle weaves and a thermal boot. Analysis of problems: Snow melter: Hydraulic leak in snow bucket results in bad smelling water, does not repel Skuas. Benefit: No hair oil required. Starr Lake: Water tastes better, but is contaminated with human urine. The UT pissed in the same hole that he was pumping the water from. Solution: Drink only gobbered beer. Warning: Do NOT drink the last 1/2 inch of beer in the can unless you enjoy the gobbers. Socket sends tapes oncely Socket Landy - <>

Pole used to use the same method. One morning in November 1976 we woke up and noticed the water tasted funny. Actually the doctor brought it to my attention. Turns out that one of those D8 batteries had been accidentally left in the loader bucket and dumped into the snow melter with a load of snow. That evening I found myself in the snow melter helping to clean it out. No skuas, but lots of wood scraps, cargo chains, and oily gunk. At least we were kept warm from the glycol coil in the bottom. After that we had to clean the water tanks and flush the piping. The galley melted snow on the stove for several days for drinking and cooking water. We all are human, anyone can make a mistake. But the guy responsible for this incident knew he did it but went to bed anyway. Soon he was on a flight north. - Bill Spindler <spindle@attglobal.net>

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