Keeping an ice sculpture/block of ice?

uncle sticky · Post by **uncle sticky** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:42 pm

We're doing a winter theme camp this year, and I am trying to figure out how to keep a shot luge (okay, we're also a bunch of ski bums) cold for the week. A shot luge is basically a large block of ice with luge runs cut in, and you pour liquor down it, and into the orifice of choice for the recipient. How do we keep it cold? Dry Ice? Coolers? Ideas? Oh, and we will have acces to a generator.

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:07 am

Have a regional burn in Antartica? but I hear thats geting warm too...

Freeze copper lines in it to pump refrigerant through? make the ice the evaparator coil

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:23 am

Just take apart a small-med refridgerator/freezer, and use the freezer plate as the base of the luge. Form the ice around it, then turn it up to max.

Or you could use some variation of the dry ice block maker, where you blast CO2 gas into a form to make a block of dry ice in a few seconds (just make a mold in the shape of the luge). IIRC you got around 30 blocks of dry ice for one of those large cylinders of CO2...

Or have a propane cyclinder that is powering some massive flame effect (obviously at a distance). As the tank ices up from all the gas that is leaving, use it to pour your shots (and warm the tank, thus helping the flame Artist). Of course, it would take ALOT of shots to warm some of those tanks!

Or just buy blocks of ice daily (one should last a few hours) and keep them in a cooler until needed.