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A cool way to make hot water! An immersion heater

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Uploaded by on Oct 21, 2011

Picked up a brand new Army surplus immersion heater for $50.00. I began testing my free charcoal lighter fluid in it to heat water and a small greenhouse.

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  • 25 bucks? give me 2.

  • yah, seems like gas could be a bad idea. what about waste oil?

  • Very cool heater, this is pretty much a rocket stove using fluids for your fuel.

    Thanks again for sharing man.

  • Bad memories of this from K.P. duty in the field, don't do it right and hope you have a long field problem so your eyebrows can grow back

  • It always has to be a slow drip,,,but faster than you show on the video,,, ate many c rations heated with this. it should not blossom every time a drop goes down. These things work great!!

    Good Luck

  • Start your draft and let it run for about 3 to 4 minutes before dripping fuel in.

  • I run biodiesel in mine to create hot water for my biodiesel reactor. Gasoline can be used but there is a severe danger of back fire during ignition.

  • The efficiency of the heater would be greatly increased by piping a air in take from outside so that the heater isn't sucking all the heated air out of the greenhouse. Should be a quick fix and will help keep heat even.

  • That is a wonderful little heater and a great application.

  • I remember using one of those in Korea back in 1989. We heated water with Mo-Gas to clean cooking utensis. When lighting the back blast burned my eye lashes off. Luckly my eye brows were covered with a cold weather cap. Fun times. You are using it in a creative way. Great job.

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