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i woul bet the fish would smell the wd 40 this wont help your tip up hole this is for keeping your hole open overnights when you fish a hardshack and dont want to drill inside your fishhole and then you have to shovel it all out...check these airbags out www.airbags.com
Anyway, have any of you tried those battery operated hole warmers? They are like little disks that keep the hole warm so it doesn't refreeze. I think I need these for my wind tip ups.Tyler
Actually, the answer is no. Hot water does not freeze faster than cold water. Then again, the answer is yes. Hot water does freeze faster than cold water in various experimental conditions. What the hell do you mean?? You're confusing me doggy!!Remember one rule of thermodynamics: HEAT travels towards COLD. If you wrap your hand around an ice cube, your hand will begin to hurt from the cold. That is not because the cold from the ice cube is traveling into your hand. COLD does not travel towards HEAT. The heat in your hand is being adsorbed by the ice cube which causes the ice to melt as its temperature increases. This also results in a temperature drop in your hand which triggers nerves to send electrical/chemical impulses to your brain to tell you: "HEY DUMMY, DROP THE ICE OR YOUR HAND WILL FALL OFF!"It is a simple phenomenon to test. Or is it??Use cold tap water, hot tap water, and boiling water from your tea kettle. Fill ice cube trays (volume is held constant) with all three and stick them in the freezer. Time the event to see which forms ice first. The answer: cold tap water will always freeze first.HOWEVER, if you take extremely hot water and compare it to room temperature or cold water or even hot tap water. The EXTREMELY hot water will freeze first. WHY? Simple. Water vapor! EXTREMELY hot water will evaporate at a very fast rate. Thus, the volume of the water is decreasing rapidly. Much more so than that of the room temperature water. Therefore, small volumes of water freeze faster than large volumes of water. Ponds freeze before lakes. Make sense?There is another factor involved: convection (and density). Molecules in motion. Excited molecules move faster. Heat excites molecules. This also has an affect on temperature loss (freezing). Very complex physics now. We are talking about melting points of solids and freezing points of liquids, sublimation of solids, super cooling, conduction, dissolved gasses, and energy requirements for these physical changes of state (matter). Won't get into it here. A lot of it is speculative at best and quite contrary (counter-intuitive) to what seems to be normal logic.Part of the problem in explaining this phenomenon is in the experimental design. You have to take into account all possible contributing factors. Container size and shape that your water samples will be placed in, timing of the experiment, impurities in the water samples, initial temperatures, size and shape of the freezer, air currents within the freezer, surrounding environments for each sample, etc.So, the problem is in recreating the ideal conditions for hot water to freeze faster than cold water. Many labs have tried diffent experiments with differential results becuase the variables involved in this phenonmenon are many and not understood very well.There is an excellent article in Scientific American (September 1977) that discusses the disparities between freezing rates and temperature of water. Check it out if you are really interested...
I had a buddy spray his minnow (frozen shiner) with WD-40 and he was catching fish with it. They were biting so good that day it was impossible to tell if it helped, but at least it didn't hurt. As for keeping ice off the hole I'm not sure. I've used windshield washer antifreeze with some luck but it doesn't float so bringing fish up the hole dilutes it. Don't think its bad for the environment but I don't use it anymore.
thought of this today,try putting a handwarmer inside a popbttle with a little water"to get it to sink a bit"and place it in the hole?anyone think it will work?are the hand warmers hot enough?as far as keeping holes from freezing over night in the shack,i make vinyl hole plugs filled with foam.shove them in the hole and they displace the water.work great!!!stump