All 152 pieces of acrylic glass are removed by hand and stored on carts. Each piece is numbered. The four corner areas of the boards (dashers) then are removed to allow personnel and equipment to enter. The other parts of the boards stay in place during basketball games.

1. Acrylic sheets are taken off when poles are removed.

2. Aluminum poles in between the acrylic slide out of holes in the top of boards.

3. Acrylic sheets slide into grooves on storage cart. Poles go on top.

4. Boards bolt together at sides and bolt down into a 1-inch-thick poly ice dam that surrounds the ice surface.