There are also other ice resurfacers out there. Olympia is the most common
other brand that I've seen. They look slightly different (a little rounder,
I believe).

John

On 5/27/06, Hampton, Nathan E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> Zamboni has a monopoly. If not, then more than 8000 would have been sold.
> Besides, they last frieking forever.
>
> Nathan Hampton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List on behalf of Joe
> Makowiec
> Sent: Sat 5/27/2006 7:34 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Zambonis
>
> I was listening to Only A Game on my local public radio station this
> morning, and they had a piece on Zambonis:
>
> http://www.onlyagame.org/shows/2006/05/20060527_8.asp
>
> They do a nice job on the history of the machine.  My brother has a friend
> who opines that there are three things a person will sit and watch and be
> mesmerized by: a fire, a waterfall and a Zamboni.
>
> Obligatory College Hockey Content: While I was trawling through Zamboni's
> website, I found that Zamboni delivered Machine #8000 to the U of
> Minnesota
> in 2005:
>
> http://zamboni.com/news/news8000.html
>
> Is it possible that there have only been 8000 Zamboni brand ice
> resurfacing
> machines built?
>
> Joe
> --
> Joe Makowiec can be reached at:
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> http://makowiec.org/
>



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