Talk:Ice resurfacer

message: What is the range of prices for these machines? That seems noteworthy for the article.
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You're looking at a minimum of $70,000 for a new machine. However a wide array of features are available: automatic snow breaker, extra seats, seatbelts, fuel (gasoline, propane, CNG, electric), rear-mounted edger, tire wash, and much more. A laser guided blade system will run about another $10,000 and the FastIce System runs for around $20,000 to $30,000 depending on the options.
For less than full size rinks,  don't forget the compact Sport Ice 124,  much lower cost than full size machine.  Great2b1 (talk) 15:47, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Price 

message: From this sentence:
Frank J. Zamboni & Co, Inc. and other companies manufacture ice resurfacing machines, and although some people improperly refer to ice resurfacers as "a Zamboni", the name ZAMBONI is a federally and internationally registered trademark.
This is just ridiculous. No matter how much they'd like to try, the ZAMBONI company does not have the slightest power over linguistics. The things are called Zambonis at every hockey rink in the English-speaking world. I strongly suggest a rewording of this line. JHMM13  21:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As noted, Zamboni being trademarked ensures only that company can call their ice resurfacer a Zambonis; however it is undoubtedly used as a generic term by many. Not that it needs to be explained in such excruciating detail in the main article; I just reworded the opening paragraph in a manner that should suit all parties here. WWB (talk) 22:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Improperly refer..."

message: I added an advert template. The Frank Zamboni company is overly prominent in the article. We may all applaud Frank's invention, which it'd be great to see written up in a more complete 'history' section. Twang (talk) 20:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Advert template

message: These machines generally run on natural gas, which is very clean burning. It sounds to me like this section was added to promote the sales of electric machines. The basic fact is, all combustion engines have deleterious effects on air quality. This is like explaining that ice is both dangerous and made from frozen water in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.4.31 (talk) 02:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like someone re-added the pollution section without discussion here. I also agree that the pollution is not significant considering the scope of the article, or the scope of pollution in general, and should probably be eliminated. The only thing that might seem relevant in my mind is the potential increase in asthma symptoms, but certainly that does not require a whole top-level section. Brianski (talk) 15:54, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no axe to grind, here, but I understand that roof vents are required when using non-electric resurfacers. The electric machines emit no exhaust and require no ventilation system. Avoiding indoor pollution is a strong reason to switch to electric machines, manufactured by SportIce USA,   Zamboni and Olympia. TreacherousWays (talk) 17:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing irrelevant pollution section

message: IMO, everything currently in the "In popular culture" section is trivia and has been removed.
The list has been posted here, in the event that anyone wishes to expand these trivial notes into actual notable tidbits
-TinGrin 17:37, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia/In popular culture 

message: how about a discription of how they did it before the zamboni?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.71.148.1 (talk) 19:51, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A team of men with shovels, slush, snow, and water, went about and cleared the ice, patched up ruts, during play. Before and after play, you'd flood the rink with a hose. ; in current outdoor rinks, a snowplow would clear the surface, a snowblower would get rid of the snowpiles, and a tanker truck would flood the surface. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 03:30, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before 

message: I suggest that most of the history section be split to a new article Zamboni Company (current corporate name ) and a summary be left behind here. This article is about ice resurfacers in general, so the specific corporate history detail should be in a corporate article. As the corporation seems very notable, there should be no problem with its existence. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 03:28, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, cause there are more producers of Ice resurfacers than just the Zamboni company, see for example the dutch or the German article, and by splitting this section it gives it a chance of a more balanced view of this type of machine. Regards Migrant (talk) 18:19, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

text: Agree per nom. Roger (talk) 08:54, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Zamboni" 

message: The original Zamboni machine is parked in the skating rink that the family still owns, just down the street from the factory. See here. Could an L.A.-based Wikipedia editor drop by and take a photo, and upload it for the history section of this article? Thanks, Wbm1058 (talk) 18:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Zamboni – photo requested 

message: The LA Times article is no longer valid.  Making linking directly to the Google Doodle would be a better idea?  --69.85.88.55 (talk) 15:29, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Doodle link 

message: There seems to be alot of Promotion information about specific brands and models throughout the article. I think it needs to be cleaned up.Fusion2186 (talk) 21:31, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotional? 

message: The requested move proposes renaming Zamboni (a disambiguation page) to Zamboni (disambiguation) in order for "Zamboni" to redirect to ice resurfacer. Wracking 💬 04:07, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notification of requested move at [[Zamboni]]