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    Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice

    Coiled "Garden Hose" Radiator is Versatile, Mobile
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/10/09

    In reply to Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice
    I can just picture what a trip to the hardware store will be like.


    Yes, I'd like to purchase this gun shaped nozzle, and also this can of black spraypaint.


    This will be excellent in the case of a chimp attack!

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    03/10/09

    In reply to Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice
    I'll probably be the one that gets shot by the police as I'm singing explicit lyrics while washing my car.
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    03/10/09

    @luckylakey:
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice
    Great. Now I have to hire clowns to stand in my plant beds with their mouths open.
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    03/10/09

    @PirateCaptain_GitEmSteveDave: Does that mean they're going to inflate balloons with their asses?
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    03/10/09

    @ripfire: AND make animals with them!
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    03/10/09

    @ripfire: I wonder what ICP is doing nowadays.
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice
    That guy couldn't look more German if he tried.
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    Image of Meetloaf13 Meetloaf13
    03/10/09

    In reply to Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice
    Jack Bauer meets Gardening
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/10/09

    @Meetloaf13: Jack Flauer, in Twentyforsythia.


    1 man. 1 garden. 1 day.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/29/08

    In reply to Coiled "Garden Hose" Radiator is Versatile, Mobile
    Well I may be wrong about this (and I'm man enough to admit when I am). And if so I know many of you will promptly correct me, call me douchebag, whatever.


    Radiators work on steam. Once cooled and converted back to liquid form the water is returned to the furnace to be reheated & redistrubuted as steam. How does pumping hot water through this hose equate to the same thing and be capable of heating an entire room?


    I mean it seems to me you'll just end up with a hot tube which isn't nearly as fun as a hot tub.

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    10/29/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Yes you are wrong, but it doesn't really matter if you are smart enough to think you can be.

    Radiators don't work on steam, it's just extremely hot water going through it that will heat the material it's made of.
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    10/30/08

    @totolobo: Uhm, no I wasn't wrong. There are steam radiators. I've lived in several houses with them. I was merely wrong as it applies to this particular application.


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of Gann Gann
    10/29/08

    In reply to Coiled "Garden Hose" Radiator is Versatile, Mobile
    so you have to disassemble the towel rod to remove the coil? The concept's cool but messy. Instead of a massive loop, enclose return/supply in a single sheath as a twisted pair, it would be infinitely more practical.
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    10/29/08

    @Gann: Looks like the far end of the rod allows for it to pass back through the hangers.


    You could insulate the return line so it doesn't bleed heat off the hot line. Regardless, there will be loss from beginning to end so will it really matter?

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    10/29/08

    @appletag: after looking at it some more, I'm pretty sure you are supposed to slide the rod out to remove the coil.


    As for the lowered efficiency; tek_nic is right, some of the heat dissipated would be absorbed by the cooler return coil. It would be roughly 75% as efficient thermodynamically speaking, but much, much more manageable.


    And no, the pair would not need to twist :) I actually think a flat version would be more useful.

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    10/29/08

    In reply to Coiled "Garden Hose" Radiator is Versatile, Mobile
    I agree that it looks cool, but I don't think the fire department will be endorsing it.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/29/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog:


    I think that depends on how this all works - is it a hollow tube through which hot water flows (in which case no fire danger) or is it just a flexible element?


    translation from the site:


    "Ciussaì is moving a radiator, available to answer the most diverse preferences can be hung on a nail on the wall and twisted, just like a cane to water in a twisted stretches along a spiral arm of steel fixed to the wall, which function appendiasciuga of clothes, twisted on the ground and then moved at will in different parts of the house, depending on where you want to be the source of heat. In some applications is also above the blankets, to warm the beds."


    Looks like it's water-based, so all safe : )

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    10/29/08

    @nutbastard: until it scalds someone.
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    10/29/08

    In reply to Coiled "Garden Hose" Radiator is Versatile, Mobile
    Or wrap it around your arch nemesis, and ask one last time: Vere eez ze micrrofeelm?
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