Recent content by CuriousMark

After trips to Home Depot and Lowe's, both of which turned out to be a waste of time and effort, I went to a small hardware store that still had a small selection of plastic washers. I grabbed some that had an acceptable OD, took them home and drilled them out to get a workable ID. I was then...

My pool has a seven or 8 year old inter-fab slide. It is NOT the City 2, but looks similar, though it is one piece not 2. I have found the other thread from 2012 here and done a lot of searching. I even bought the spray kit that fits newer slides, but it is useless for me. The spray nozzle...

I have a coverstar automatic pool cover that I should have maintained better. It is showing its age and is fading from deep blue toward light blue in a patchy way. The fading is worst on the end of the pool that gets no afternoon shade and is closer to the vault and is therefore more tightly...

I see a $4.99 Pool Calculator in the Android Marketplace by Green Brook Software. It looks incomplete compared to the web page. Is this the same as the iPhone app, or someone else's attempt?

Nope, you might be able to get them from a library that carries the journal (few do) or order the full article from JSPSI. They are pricey, but very interesting.

As of two years ago he was supposedly retired and living in a suburb of Phoenix and being courted to write a book on swimming pools.

Tiltles are hard to read The all caps titles with extra spaces in them are a bit hard to read for me. They just seem a bit amateur, I think using a movie theater type title font would look better and be more readable. Other than that, it looks quite interesting and I look forward to diving in...