Hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I’m sure it beats the hell out of sitting there freezing your ass off and listening to your old lady bitch.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
Hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I’m sure it beats the hell out of sitting there freezing your ass off and listening to your old lady bitch.
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Next time use black pipe so you don’t get sick from the fumes of burning galvanized pipe. The idea is good just not the galvanized pipe. I’ve foolishly welded galvanized and been sick from the fumes and it ain’t fun.
It looks to be stainless steel not galvanized.
No no no he earned it. Probably left the wife home alone.
Busted…..poison them all, including the friggin dog! Gotta love millenials and youtube PhDs……LOLOLOLOL.
Unless he rested a couple of hash rocks on the bottom, thens hes a genius. So hard to tell these days! Does he have blue hairs?
Mc
FFS, you get no more heat out of that pipe than you do the candles by themselves. If anything, you lose it. Seriously stupid people out there. They think the pipe generates it’s own on TOP of what the candles put out? Maybe the air adds it’s own heat? Next up, plugging a power strip into itself to get free electricity?
Sub-Saharan level thinking there, folks.
Black pipe would be better, but I doubt those tea candles are going to heat the metal enough to affect the galvanizing. The flames will deposit soot on the pipe, slowing heat transfer; the metal will conduct and spread the heat around the circumference; and the warmer it gets, the faster air will flow through the pipe, further cooling the surface. The sound of the fireplace is a nice touch, though..
Now, try that with a propane torch, Bunsen burner, or stove, and you’re looking at finding out what metal fume fever is like.
Disclaimer: I am certainly not an expert, try at your own risk.
Might look entertaining but…
Every BTU released from those candles was already in the room.
No net gain from the pipe.
You see correct, but I haven’t seen new black flue pipe around in forever. Everything sold in supply houses and hardware stores is galvanized, so far as I’ve seen. I just took some out ancient black flue pipe and replaced with galvanized while doing a water heater replacement last week.
It warms my heart (see what I did there?) to read that people on this blog actually understand fire, thermodynamics, and safety.
WE will be the survivors When The Balloon Goes Up…
Three laws, right. Where’s the new sheriff?
Except, ‘we’ are getting old and dying out. I’m not sure enough of the younger folks have caught on yet.
Yeah, but we tried. Some of our edumacashun fell on deaf ears, some fell on stoopid ears, but there WILL be survivors.
Maybe not so many, but it WILL happen.
It’s a dandy of a glove dryer. Other than that, it’s just steam-punk art, and more eye pleasing than some of the “art” I’ve seen.
OK. So the lights are on, looks like the TV is going You’ve got electricity &
your hubby is heating galvanized pipe with tea candles to generate heat?
Flavor of your husband? If stupid has a flavor, that’s his.
You could capture more of the heat produced by the candles by putting them under hollow cinder blocks with bricks on top to create a thermal mass that will release the heat more slowly instead of letting it rise to the ceiling. Putting the thermal mass in a smaller room with the door closed would help too.