Old Lakewood Electric Heater

[brthdan]

Very nice old heater. It'll far outlast the garbage made today!

Weird?

I have 13 vintage Maytag washer/dryers displayed in my living room along with 6 vintage fans scattered throughout the house. You, my friend, are normal ;o)

[Maxxarcade]

@brthdan Haha, that's pretty cool. I like old belt drive washers myself, and some day I might get an old Kenmore.

[oOOjoeriOOo]

Why am i watching this shit?

[BlackWhiskeyBlaze]

You seem to know a good bit about these heaters... I have a newer model lakewood that has a thermostat switch or something that has it shutting off and on in 1 minute intervals. Is there a way to bypass this device so that it operates non-stop?

[Maxxarcade]

@BlackWhiskeyBlaze Usually that problem is one of two things- Either the air vents are restricted, or one of the connectors on the thermal cutout is loose and getting hot. Though if the heater has an electronic control, it could be something wrong with that.

[BlackWhiskeyBlaze]

@Maxxarcade Thanks for your quick response. I thought that the thermal cutout sounded like the most plausible explanation, so I opened it up and looked around a bit and noticed the device located on the back of the coil housing. (cont.)

[BlackWhiskeyBlaze]

(cont.) I figured that should be the culprit, so I wired up an extention between the two and wrapped them up nicely and neatly as to not create any such shorts from accidental contact, put it back together and she's been running smoothly without interuption. I'll be keeping a close eye on her though.

Thanks again for your response.

[Echofromsomewere1]

You aren't weird. You my friend suffer from the obsession all men and women suffer from it. Men are usualy atracted to complicated techno stufs like your heating thing while women are atracted to beautiful things like dresses.

[sabaths1fan]

what does something like this cost?

[Maxxarcade]

Cheap or free, if you can find one. Ebay has some that are similar from time to time.

[MSNIMSM]

I have one simular. It's an Arvin.

[1978mackdaddy]

heres my take.. the best heaters are electric radiator oil eaters. they take a long time to get going, but once its going....

[78left]

i use to draw baseball stadiums as a kid and in jr high. i thought i was odd

[lawnkit22]

i had one of these.........good times. after 12 years if good use the coil snapped =(

[coolbluelights]

Hah I used to draw motors and speakers when I was little I was a weird kid too! ^^

[wizard8575]

I was still drawing speakers even in high school. Fun times.

I also used to love electric motors of any size. Once I mounted a tape deck motor on one side of the room, and a pulley on the other, and made a long "belt" out of dental floss. It was fun to hang things on it and watch them go across the room at a decent rate of speed :-)

[coolbluelights]

Yeahh man! I would do similar things like run motors on 9 volt batteries until they got really warm, I even had, and still do have somewhere a toy motor "Junkyard" which is a box full of random motor parts, and when I got enough parts I'd build more motors ^^

[vinylman86]

haha, i used to draw fans too and make window ac out of legos.

[DJBJ24]

@coolbluelights same, i always drew engines, motors, speakers, stereos, plugs, cords, carpet cleaning equipment, vacuum cleaners, heaters, fans, fuse boxes, wiring.....etc.....I was a weird kid as well, good to know i wasnt the only one

[calvinyuenblinke]

I sit in school and draw pictures of car audio systems and I'm 13 lol

[dburrigh]

We used to have one of those! Great old heater.

You can't buy anything that durable today. I have a new Lakewood model 633 (dual heat), and the high setting gave out on it.

I've since found a new in box Arvin Alert (also dual heat) from the early 90's. It works great after giving the fan a drop of Zoom Spout oil on each bearing.

[hdyudu]

ribbin style heating elements are commenly

use in toesters and eletric radent heaters

and coton candy makers.

[matthewjohnmcgee]

those coils are made out of nichrome

(nickel chormium alloy) which acts

like a high power resistor that gets

realy hot when electricity is on

which is commonly used in electric ovens

toasters hair dryers and other heating

appliences and when turned on the wire or

ribbon glow red orange due to the extream

heat

[hdyudu]

i use to run a srink raping oven that as the coil kind elements in tray style heating element boxs forming what called a heater bank

witch tumble landry dryers have to but the

landry dryer heater banks have one element box

hot air srink rap ovens have two element boxs

in thar heater bank.

[hdyudu]

i got to get me some of that zoom spout

i got a fan in need of oil i used wd-40

on it befor but stuff wear off easy.

[mylesgifford123]

i used to draw fans all the time i still do

[texdw7432]

I have TWO of these !! Each Fall, I clean and oil the fan motors. They provide instant heat in chilly areas . Thnks for the video

[damusician]

i used to be obesessed with window ac. when i was little, i used to build a window ac out of legos and some type of plastic building toy, but i forgot what itz called. anyway, i would put it on the window sill and just leave i there.

[jefferyb304]

heh. I would put cardboard boxes in windows or cut the bottom out, attach a news paper or something of that nature and pretend it was a tv

[jefferyb304]

I used to draw school buses. My Grandmother drove one for 20 years.