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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11378 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
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Those are some footnotes there, Robin. *awe*
I vote kettlesful, though my spell-checker prefers kettlefuls.
What does a cigarette lighter do to help you unfreeze your lock? I feel like I'm missing something important here...
Smooshes!
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11383 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Wed, 11 February 2009 20:29 |
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no smuggling into the semi-oblivious parental abode of inappropriate romantic partners.
Hmm... what would be an inappropriate romantic partner for a sighthound... a rabbit? "But we...we LOVE each other..."
Which puts me in mind (as so many things do) of a comic--in this case, on the perils of blind dating:
(credit where credit's due--that's a strip from Big Top, by my friend Rob Harrell...)
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"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11384 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Wed, 11 February 2009 20:43 |
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She means butane flame cigarette lighter also good for torching coat sleeves if held wrong. If you can get hold of a hypodermic needle and some rubbing alcohol you can inject the alcohol into the lock and it will a) thaw the lock and b) drive the water out. The problem is, that using hot water keeps water in the mechanism and creates a continuing cycle of frozen lock. Isopropyl alcohol encourages the water to leave the lock and defrosts it as well. The only thing that I would say is under no circumstances should you use both the lighter and the alcohol. Or if you do, please take a photo, it should be spectacular.
Dances
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 Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11418 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 03:08 |
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I used the hot water method for years, and even took along a filled termobottle when visiting in the evening. Then one very cold evening the door froze while on my way home!
I'm now driving with an oil-radiator on the backseat and an extension cord beside it. My home, my workplace, and most of the other places I go to often, all have either an outdoor electric outlet you can turn on from the inside, or a window into a bathroom, kitchen, utility room with an electric socket I can use. When I plug in the radiator 15-20 min before I want to leave, I can go enter a nice warm car with no frozen door.
This looks ridiculous, but works so well I even had my brother make a crate to keep the radiator upright.
Anette, the Great Dane
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11427 is a reply to message #11384 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 06:24 |
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| dances-with-needles wrote on Wed, 11 February 2009 20:43 |
She means butane flame cigarette lighter also good for torching coat sleeves if held wrong.
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Oh! Hah!
Now I feel really stupid. I *know* there are cigarette lighters other than the ones you plug into the car. Really, I do! Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11436 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 11:30 |
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http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/479813.html
I think this has a lot of good info. Pros and cons of various methods ... and warnings, particularly the ones about not applying too much heat to the vicinity of the lock because of plastic parts.
Live and learn!
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11437 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 11:31 |
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because by now the locks are green and squishy and swamplike and won’t dry out till July
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OK, how about Atlas makes you a tiny little detachable portico that you could hang over the handle/lock every night, to keep the rain off? 
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Under Peter’s too, for that matter. He’s used to me but there are limits. My husband goes to bed at about 10:30.
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I quite like the idea of you standing under his window, serenading him with inventive words and phrases. Just call it a different sort of extended Valentine gift, much better than the slushy stuff!
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there haven’t been too many Days of Falling Water^^^, but I can remember one or two, when we went out for four walks, half an hour each, which was as long as any of us could stand, because I quite like my cottage in its present configuration, and did not approve of the threatened redecoration.
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I suppose they couldn't just be let loose inside Third House for an hour? It sounds as if any depredations they might make there wouldn't be noticed much at the moment...
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Consumed in the somewhat unlikely shade of two furiously flowering patio fruit trees. Very pretty pink flowers, my little peach and my little nectarine. You just don’t really expect them indoors.
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Well, at least you're following the correct horticultural method for avoiding Peach Leaf Curl. As you will know, that does say to keep them covered over so the rain doesn't splash up on them from the earth between January and April. Just remember to brush the flowers over with a little soft brush as an aid to pollination (unless you also have a leftover-from-CHALICE stash of bees in there with all the flowering plants?)
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11459 is a reply to message #11450 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 19:17 |
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| Robin wrote on Thu, 12 February 2009 19:01 |
The generation gap is worse than I realised. You know, those snappy things that in old movies the hero whips out to light the heroine's cigarette. FIRE! I'm sure it plays hell with your paint job but I don't suppose kettlesful of boiling water are doing it much good either.
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No no, it's the gap between my ears.
I even *have* a big lighter (for candles when the power goes out), but I wasn't thinking of that at all. You said cigarette lighter close to the word car, and that's where my head went. I think of the other things just as lighters.
Gap between my ears. Generation gap is right on schedule.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11480 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 21:26 |
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man, no one can stay sad when the read the forum.thanks for the light relief.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11496 is a reply to message #11461 ] |
Fri, 13 February 2009 04:07 |
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The little thingies are a lot more elegant, but they cost about 10 times as much as a radiator. Plus you must pay a mechanic to install it. The radiator cost about as much as a tank of gas, you can just place it on a seat, and closing the car door on the cord does no damage.
At home I use the cord for the electric lawnmower. It runs from the socket by my interior staircase (so I can just flip it on when heading for my kitchen in the morning), out a small drilled hole in the edge of a window-frame, across the lawn, and into the car. When I want to drive I just disconnect and hang the end of the cord over a branch of the quince tree. I use duct tape to insure that there gets no water into the downwards hanging socket. It's worked for more than 10 winters.
Anette, the Great Dane
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11499 is a reply to message #11377 ] |
Fri, 13 February 2009 06:32 |
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6:00am brilliant idea.
Robin, I know how to thaw your car.
FLAMETHROWER.
Should thaw it out in no time.
Plus, fire pretty.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Further Applications of Hot Water [message #11501 is a reply to message #11499 ] |
Fri, 13 February 2009 11:40 |
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| jmeadows wrote on Fri, 13 February 2009 11:32 |
6:00am brilliant idea.
Robin, I know how to thaw your car.
FLAMETHROWER.
Should thaw it out in no time.
Plus, fire pretty.
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Jodi, I have a friend who you really should meet! That's EXACTLY the kind of thing she'd say. So much so in fact that for a minute I thought "How come Rosie is posting on Robin's forum?"
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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