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Old 17th Mar 2012, 3:53 pm   #1
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Default Hawkins Boilette

Doing a bit of spring cleaning I found this at the back of a cupboard. I think I last used it in the late 80s and don't plan using it again but it's a nice curiosity.
It's basically a miniature kettle element which you lower into the drink to heat it. The glass and its plastic holder are original, I think. The plastic is shrinking and splitting in places - across the base and through the line of the handle.
The wire loop alongside the element is so that you can suspend an egg in water to boil it, or so I was told at the time.
"Switch off before removing from liquid."
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Old 17th Mar 2012, 4:29 pm   #2
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Default Re: Hawkins Boilette

Similar things were quite common at one time. A great aunt of mine always used to take one on holiday so that she could make a cup of tea. 12V ones are still made for camping, but I'm not sure the mains ones can be legally sold now.
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Default Re: Hawkins Boilette

I've got one somewhere that's just a small kettle element with the coiled bit at the bottom of the two straight bits. At the top is a plastic handle a bit like the cover of an inline connector with a hooked bit on the side so you can hang the whole thing on the side of your mug.

Something like the picture, in fact, except that it runs on 220V not 12V!
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Old 23rd Mar 2012, 6:46 pm   #4
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Default Re: Hawkins Boilette

I'm told (though I've never seen one) that there was a device in the '20s or thereabouts which simply consisted of a pair bare electrodes connected to the mains, and which was lowered into a vessel of water to heat it
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That's called an electrode boiler. Still widely used industrially.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrode_boiler
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Old 24th Mar 2012, 9:19 pm   #6
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Some electric shower units look nastily like they run the water through a grounded or plastic can with a bare coiled bit of resistance wire in it 240V 30 or 45A fused!

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