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1st Mar 2018, 3:55 pm | #41 |
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Re: Don't try this at home
The "suicide showers" are universal in Central/Southern-American countries and a good slice of the Far East too.
Interestingly, the underlying principle - a bare-wire element in direct contact with the water - is used in a number of the little 'instant' electric hand-wash heaters available here in the UK. |
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1st Mar 2018, 6:04 pm | #44 |
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I have seen a meat pie heated in seconds from the output of a 110kW UHF TV transmitter. It was a very bad load, transmitter OK as the directional coupler and reflected power dummy load were there.
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1st Mar 2018, 7:54 pm | #45 |
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My trusty old bowl fire can sure cook a nice omelette. John.
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Some years ago I did inherit a shower in the UK that I thought about fitting. But I looked inside and could see exactly what is described, a bare wire heating element in direct contact with the water, inside a clear tube which may have been glass or plastic. It just scared the out of me so got skipped I'm afraid. |
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1st Mar 2018, 8:47 pm | #47 |
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Re: Don't try this at home
And here it is.
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1st Mar 2018, 10:24 pm | #48 |
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I guess that under normal operating conditions those showers are pretty safe - both ends of the element are immersed, and the element impedence is considerably lower than that of a human body. Where it fails, like so many of the items discussed here, is that potential fault conditions seem to be disregarded.
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1st Mar 2018, 11:10 pm | #49 |
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not sure how the RCD holds in if it's used in the UK!
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2nd Mar 2018, 4:42 am | #50 |
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That's one of the better ones!
I have seen a model that looks similar but has no back cover, just 2 wires sticking through a grommet, connected with a choc bloc taped to the pipe. |
2nd Mar 2018, 4:52 am | #51 |
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Re: Don't try this at home
I recently managed to melt my toaster while using it as a handy heat source to bend perspex. Apparently the plastic case was designed to rely on copious convection for cooling which a large sheet of perspex above interrupts rather effectively.
Feel free to try this at home. |
2nd Mar 2018, 12:04 pm | #52 |
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With those showers you are lucky to find a chock block in the tape bomb.
I am pretty sure most are just twisted. I have never seen one without a tape bomb of some kind. |
2nd Mar 2018, 2:52 pm | #53 |
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Many years ago when marshalling the Lombard RAC Rally through a Welsh forest-stage I heated-up canned Ravioli in an electric kettle. It was an old-style kettle with a handle, which restricted access abd stopped me doing the obvious thing of filling the kettle with water then standing the can in it while the water boiled.
The ravioli was a bit 'crunchy' with limescale, but at least it was hot. I also know someone from my student days who used an electric kettle to boil his eggs and to heat-up 'boil in the bag' Kippers for breakfast. He then used the water to make tea. Ugh! |
2nd Mar 2018, 3:10 pm | #54 |
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Was that not a certain D. Dack or am I thinking of a similar but different incident?
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Ah, yes, it was indeed David!
It was definitely Owen at the centre of the hilarity over Peter G's home made isle of Lewis chessman replicas Thanks, Peter David
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2nd Mar 2018, 6:05 pm | #57 |
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As long as the eggs don't crack and the bag doesn't leak, why not? Saves boiling another kettleful.
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I just found the idea of boiling kippers in a kettle to be utterly revolting. Thankfully I always had my own kettle so no risk of cross-contamination. |
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2nd Mar 2018, 7:01 pm | #59 |
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In East Germany they had the famous WM66 washing machine. Not only did it wash clothes, you could fill it with water and use it to boil sausages or other things. It was useful for boiling fruit if you wanted to make jam for example.
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The one I used blew air across the end of a small tube that dipped into the paint and thereby sucked it out. But it didn't come into contact with the commutator, it just blew out the end of the above tube.
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