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Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc. has developed a custom delivery/application system for third rail anti-icing. “Ice-Slicer” spray system applies Zero Gravity Third Rail® Anti-Icer automatically to either 3rd rail side of your trains to keep the surfaces free of ice. Prevent ice and power loss and keep your trains operating in the worst of winter weather. Be pro-active and stay ahead of the storm, after all, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.   An old cliche perhaps, but true.


Anti-icing provides the maintenance manager with two major benefits:  keeping the mass transit system’s time schedule accurate and maintaining maximum safety for passengers. “Ice-Slicer®” utilizes Third Rail Anti-Icer®, which should start being applied when predictions indicate freezing temperatures and prior to a severe storm event. Ongoing applications during a storm event will maintain ice-free rails and uninterrupted track operations.

Anti-icing vs. de-icing: Traditional de-icers used for third rail applications are very fluid. The thin fluid runs off the rail and provides no residual protection. Additionally, once rails have frozen over, it requires 5 to 10 times more of this thin fluid to melt ice than it would if you used Zero Gravity Third Rail Anti-Icer De-Icer®. Using low viscosity de-icers makes your de-icing practice ineffective and costly. Zero Gravity Third Rail Anti-Icer De-Icer® and Ice-Slicer® create a pro-active approach for your anti-icing procedures to conserve product, saving you time and money and preventing operational interruption.

Third Rail Anti-Icer® utilizes a NASA technology “Smart Fluid” referred to as “Zero Gravity”,a co-developed technology between NASA and Ames Research Center. Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc. has been licensed to utilize “Zero Gravity” in Third Rail Anti-Icer® and is patent protected (no. 5,772,912). When a small amount (a thin film of .01”) of this non-corrosive substance is sprayed onto the third rail, its viscosity reverts to high “zero” shear or static viscosity which enables it to stay in place. This makes Third Rail Anti-Icer® strongly resistant to rain, snow, ice, surface winds, and the adverse effects of gravity.

System Specifications:

Control Panel

Storage Tank

Pump

Motor

System & Hoses

Entire system is non-corrosive, designed for long life and dependability.

“Anti-Icing Doesn’t Cost...It Pays”