Dry Ice Sales

[Fisher_90]

Hi guys, Im wondering if any of you know where i could buy dry ice in block form on the Northside. I have tried BOC and they only have pellets and i dont really wanna drive to Hemmant to get Brisbane Ice Sales so im wondering if you know of a place that would sell dry ice.

Also does anyone know how much i will need for 4days of camping in a good quality Coleman 54litre Esky at this time of year?

Thanks :dry:

[Beefa]

Mate there use to be an ice joint at Northgate just off of toombul road down near the post office if your familar with that area. I used to get my dry ice from there awhile ago now

3day block and pack some cube ice in around it mate and throw a wet cloth over your block i find it helps stop evapouration.

Enjoy.

[Fisher_90]

Yeh i know their was a place their but it moved to the southside i think. I might go have a look tommorow.

[Feral]

Ice joint is still there (Northgate), how long the ice lasts will depend on how much you open the esky.

Also Colemans are not the thickest esky around, we used to get 5kilo blocks for work, they would last a week in the esky if we didn't use it. But it was a custom esky, quite thick walled.

[shortie]

in my experience dry ice is a waste of time and money unless you open your esky 1ce a day to get frozen stuff out to put in another esky

dont put can anywhere near it , they will blow.

better of with milk bottles full of water frozen. Block ice. and you also have col water

[Fisher_90]

Thanks alot Feral i will go down tommorow and see.

Yeah well we will be fishing for like 8hrs a day and just be back for lunch dinner. It wont be opened often. I was told 10kg is required for 4days and it is $46. That seems a good price at $4.60kg but i think 10kg is too much.

[Feral]

I agree with shortie, for example I went away on the weekend, with a 20 litre esky, with one 3litre milk bottle frozen, and a couple of sheets of tech ice on top. Went into esky Friday about 10am, came out sunday about 5pm, still some ice in the bottle, and I had been opening the esky reasonably often.

[Lozzel]

Dry Ice is a waste of time, unless you want to keep stuff frozen.

When we went camping on fraser, we would use big blocks of ice and salt it down with course salt. Blocks would last about a week.

Also on the Pro boat we would use \"crushed party ice\" .As it was going in we added the salt ,after about 6hrs travelling to reef , we had a 1 tonn ice block. That would last 10 days. We had to break it up with a pick to put it amongst the fish.

So salted ice lasts longer than normal ice, just drain off water daily.and resalt daily.

[obone]

Feral wrote:

sheets of tech ice

?

Joel

[Feral]

Tech ice is flat sheets of plastic with little pockets of the same stuff they put in babies disposable nappies, soaked in water then frozen. 6 sheets in a 60 litre esky lasts all day and takes up bugger all room.

[Gazza]

I use margarine containers to freeze the blocks and add salt water in the esky always have ice left after a full day on the water

Gaz

[Fisher_90]

Its too keep food and i want to have like snags and frozen stuff on the bottom then have just cold stuff on top. Feral i was told by somebody that the iceworks at Northgate had moved.

[Gazza]

Or you can super freeze ice with liquid nitrogen which is cheap as chipsfrom a boc outlet

you just pour it over the ice an hour before you intend to use it

we use it at work to fit special bearings we freeze the solid 80 mm stainless steel shaft to shrink itthen slide the bearing on :woohoo:

Gaz