its getting kinda warm in here

[roastelk]

I have my furnace cranked to 105ºF to try and thaw out some water pipes that froze on me. The water pipes to my kitchen run along a rather poorly insulated section of floor, which over hangs outside from the bottom level of my place. any ways I forgot to open my kitchen cabinets so some heat could get to them, as it has been -30ºC to -25ºC outside the last few days, and they're frozen up good.

man even my nuts are getting sweaty I'm used to having my thermostat set to 60ºF



change of topic here.... I had the stitches pulled out of my forarm today, they have to stay in my neck for a bit longer though. seems to be healling up good so far, no infections. been off work all last week becuase of that injury.

[Legs]

:fan::peanut::peanut:

[Dingfod]

Whatever you do, don't try to thaw the pipes with a blowtorch.

[BrotherMan]

:bunnythrust: That's what she said! :bunnythrust:

[Farren]

Whatever you do, don't try to thaw the pipes with a blowtorch.

Speaking from experience?

[roastelk]

Whatever you do, don't try to thaw the pipes with a blowtorch.

why not? torches work fine, you just have to do it slowly. if you put the flame right on the copper pipe you can quickly boil the water inside the pipe and blow it up becasue the steem has no where to go.
I'd have to rip my entire kitchen cabinate out to accses the frozen section of the pipes with torch any ways. well at least in way that wouldn't burn down my house. I've found a good hairdryer works better for thawing out pipes than a torch does anyways


i did get it thawed out just took a few hours of having a rather hot house. I've had trouble wiht this in the past, when i redo the kitchen the pipes are going to be routed else where so as eliminate the problem intirely.

[Dingfod]

Whatever you do, don't try to thaw the pipes with a blowtorch.

Speaking from experience?Every once in a great while I actually learn something from someone else's experience. There are a lot of house fires caused by people thawing frozen water pipes with blowtorches or even by attaching arc welder leads to them, heating the pipes by electrical resistance. Both methods do work for thawing the frozen lines, but either one can start a fire.

[roastelk]

Whatever you do, don't try to thaw the pipes with a blowtorch.

Speaking from experience?Every once in a great while I actually learn something from someone else's experience. There are a lot of house fires caused by people thawing frozen water pipes with blowtorches


ive done this many times, but with a fire extinguisher or bucket of water ready and in arms reach. I know many poeple who would prefer to spend time running around the house looking for such things after the fire has allready started

[Dingfod]

In the news: (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/12/man_using_blowt.html) Man does $30,000 damage to his house trying to melt ice with a blowtorch.

[Dingfod]

In the news (http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=421617): Garage burns down because an electric heat gun (a high-powered hair-dryer) the owner was using to defrost the windshield was left turned on.

[biochemgirl]

At work the security guy told us not to use our ID badges to scrape our windshields because he's had to replace quite a few due to that reason. I'm thinking, who the fuck lives in Iowa without an ice scraper handy?

[Dingfod]

Or an electric heat gun.

[JoeP]

Or some dynamite.

[Doctor X]

At work the security guy told us not to use our ID badges to scrape our windshields because he's had to replace quite a few due to that reason. I'm thinking, who the fuck lives in Iowa without an ice scraper handy?

People dumb enough to live in Iowa?















:P

--J. "Idiots Out Wandering Alone" D.

[biochemgirl]

:glare:

Although considering how cold it was this week you may have a point.

[Clutch Munny]

See, you don't have to scrape the windshield when you commute by bike at -30 degrees.

Though a smallish ice scraper does come in handy for scraping your nuts off the seat when you reach your destination.

[Corona688]

Although considering how cold it was this week Ha!

[Dingfod]

See, you don't have to scrape the windshield when you commute by bike at -30 degrees.

Though a smallish ice scraper does come in handy for scraping your nuts off the seat when you reach your destination.Or a blowtorch.

[Clutch Munny]

Agreed. More portable than the electric heat gun.

[Dingfod]

http://store.sra-solder.com/shopimages/products/normal/GB20012.gif

[Corona688]

Hey, that looks like one of the nice ones. Don't get the cheap-ass Iroda-branded ones, though. They leak explosive gas.

[Pinecone]

They leak explosive gas.

It doesn't sound good that you know that. :stunned:

[Qingdai]

Blow torch? I thought that was a crack lighter.
I got to start hanging out with a more handy crew.

[Corona688]

Blow torch? I thought that was a crack lighter.
I got to start hanging out with a more handy crew. It lifts components off copper-clad boards with ease, solders pipes, shrinks heat-shrink tubing in a heartbeat(and scorches in two), browns mashed potato topping on shepherd's pie(unless it's instant, which just sort of dessicates), cooks the fastest grilled cheese known to mankind, and colors steel. Oh, yeah, and it can also light stuff on fire.