Air: Oxygen hose?

Dec 08, 2004 12 Replies

My wife just removed the wiring from an old electric blanket before passing it on to a local charity. Since the controller didn't work, there was no need for the wiring. Being the curious sort, I took a piece of the heating wire and stripped it to the copper element and lo, there was a very nice coil of fine copper wire around a flexible center. It's just about right for



1/48. It could be a bit tighter coil but still it's not bad and I've got about 40 feet of it!

BTW, that flexible center of the coil is flameable so if you want to remove it, just pass it through a flame.


MB



Wound guitar string make great O2 hose, too.

I got a blanket where only one size works (king size.) What would your wife charge to fix it? tia,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

I got a blanket where only one side works (king size.) What would your wife charge to fix it? tia,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

in article snipped-for-privacy@mb-m12.aol.com, Keeper at snipped-for-privacy@aol.comedy wrote on 12/8/04 7:09 AM:

When my wife gets through with it, all you have is a plain old cloth blanket. The wiring is easy to remove.

(But why bother; you only use one side of the blanket at a time. : )

MB

in article sDttd.153757$V41.75857@attbi_s52, Rufus at snipped-for-privacy@mchsi.com wrote on 12/7/04 8:26 PM:

I've done that...and light bulb filaments too. But this electric heating coil is really flexible and I hated to just throw it in the trash before looking into the possibilities.

MB

Have to agree - sometimes the best stuff is the stuff you just "find".

Oh, well! I was hoping Muffy could stay warm too when she spends the night. I guess she'll just have to cuddle. 8^) Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Hey Keeper: In the words of the old Irish philosophers: "Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it." You'll be having a small Christmas present coming, in the next week or so (as soon as I can get to the Post Office). Nothing much, just a small addition to your crapatorium....

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

If you 'strip' all the 'wire' from muffy, she's much more cuddly.

in article snipped-for-privacy@mb-m14.aol.com, Keeper at snipped-for-privacy@aol.comedy wrote on 12/8/04 11:48 PM:

That's what we did before electric blankets. And the electric blanket was progress! ...only if you slept alone.

MB

I guess that qualifies most things here!

Why thank you!

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

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