How to dry your drygloves.

In article <cdf01b59.0307160546.4e8b1cfe@posting.google.com >, tholt576
<tholt576@scubadiving.com> wrote:

€ I can almost envision it. All you'd need would be a length of PVC, a
€ couple of elbows, a T, duct tape and the hair dryer. I may have to
€ make myself one of these.

Drill. You need a drill. You drill holes in the pieces that go into the
gloves, otherwise it blows hot air onto one spot, and turns the lining
all brown and burnt.

The PVC turned out to be a bad choice. It turns soft when the hairdryer
is on high, and the gloves don't get dry when it's on low. If I were to
do it again, I'd use something harder.

I use drygloves, though, and they haven't been wet inside in a year.

--
"I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something
about it."
-Tom Burnett, aboard United Airlines flight 93, September 11, 2001

"Jammer Six" wrote ...
> The PVC turned out to be a bad choice. It turns soft when the hairdryer
> is on high, and the gloves don't get dry when it's on low. If I were to
> do it again, I'd use something harder.

Were you using Schedule-40 PVC? It's thicker and might not melt as
readily... Another choice might be to use CPVC... It's the stuff they use
for hot water pipes -- it has a higher temperature rating... Whereas PVC is
white in color, CPVC is somewhat almond in color... If that still fails,
there is copper tubing...

In article <KKkRa.90194$TJ.4890513@twister.austin.rr.com>, Grumman-581
<grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM.houston.rr.com> wrote:

€ Were you using Schedule-40 PVC? It's thicker and might not melt as
€ readily... Another choice might be to use CPVC... It's the stuff they use
€ for hot water pipes -- it has a higher temperature rating... Whereas PVC is
€ white in color, CPVC is somewhat almond in color... If that still fails,
€ there is copper tubing...

Go turn a hairdryer to "high", run it through a copper tube for thirty
minutes, then take it apart, and report back here.

Then explain how the solution to a problem of "too fucking much heat"
is solved by moving to copper.

--
"We're going to rush the hijackers."
-Jeremy Glick, aboard United Airlines flight 93, September 11, 2001

"Jammer Six" wrote ...
> Go turn a hairdryer to "high", run it through a copper tube for thirty
> minutes, then take it apart, and report back here.
>
> Then explain how the solution to a problem of "too fucking much heat"
> is solved by moving to copper.

I was under the impression that you were saying that the heat was too much
for the PVC, not for the object that you were drying... The temperature of
the air coming out of a hair dryer for a particular heating element setting
is related to how much air is flowing through it... If you do not have
enough holes in your drying apparatus to handle the airflow coming out of
the dryer, the temperature will rise... That is why the thermal relay will
sometimes go off when you have too much lint over the air intake... It needs
the flow of air to dissipate the heat generated by the thermal element...

"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM.houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:MHmRa.90256$TJ.4915809@twister.austin.rr.com. ..

> I was under the impression that you were saying that the heat was too much
> for the PVC, not for the object that you were drying... The temperature of
> the air coming out of a hair dryer for a particular heating element
setting
> is related to how much air is flowing through it... If you do not have
> enough holes in your drying apparatus to handle the airflow coming out of
> the dryer, the temperature will rise... That is why the thermal relay will
> sometimes go off when you have too much lint over the air intake... It
needs
> the flow of air to dissipate the heat generated by the thermal element...

That's why I just let my hair air dry. All that dryer shit is way too
complicated.

In article <zpqRa.91027$TJ.4964316@twister.austin.rr.com>, Grumman-581
<grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM.houston.rr.com> wrote:

€ "Jammer Six" wrote ...
€ > My understanding of this is limited to Our Own Bad Assed Scientific
€ > Test Suite.
€ >
€ > As in: "I wonder if it's dry, yet. OW! That's fucking HOT!"
€ >
€ > Followed by: "Check it out! It's melting the fucking carpet! I wonder
€ > if I should tell the Captain..."
€
€ ROTFLMAO !!!

Here's pictures.

I don't know what it's made of, it's some kind of plumber's round shit,
and, therefore, isn't wood.

http://www.oz.net/~jammer/glovedryer1.jpg
http://www.oz.net/~jammer/glovedryer2.jpg
http://www.oz.net/~jammer/glovedryer3.jpg

It was real easy to make, it will dry the shit out of your gloves, and
then melt holes in them.

We stopped using it for two reasons. One, we switched to good dry
gloves, that don't leak, and, therefore, don't need to be dried out,
and two, the holes that it would melt in dry gloves made them leak, or,
if you were alert enough to catch it between the time it scorched the
insulation and the time it melted a hole, the place where the
insulation was scorched would be a cold spot underwater.

Fuck all that. Use good dry gloves. It's What Jammer Would Do.

--
"We're going to rush the hijackers."
-Jeremy Glick, aboard United Airlines flight 93, September 11, 2001

"Jammer Six" wrote ...
> I don't know what it's made of, it's some kind of plumber's round shit,
> and, therefore, isn't wood.

From looking at the photos, it was just standard PVC... Since it was not
melting, then the limiting factor is not the melting point of the PVC as I
had originally assumed you were talking about... The PVC pieces with the
holes in them seem somewhat larger in diameter than might be optimal... How
tight did the gloves fit on the pieces of pipe? If they formed a fairly
tight seal, there would be minimal airflow through there and it could cause
the heat to be more than would be normally found in a hair dryer... I've
seen similar systems for drying ski and outdoor boots... I've considered
building one for drying my ski boots -- I hate putting on a pair of frozen
ski boots in the morning...

"Jammer Six" <jammer@invalid.oz.net> wrote in message
news:bf5gag$1fv$0@216.39.146.232...

> Fuck all that. Use good dry gloves. It's What Jammer Would Do.

Real men don't mind wet hands.

Why don't you guys just get the very same blue gloves with the removeable
liner. At the end of the dive, pull the liner out of the glove. It will
dry in about 15 minutes. Its the very same liner and of course, just as
warm. If you want to pull your hands out and leave the liners in the glove,
that works too.

Also, the gloves don't get to stinking from mildewy wet liner either.

It also makes replacing gloves on the rings much much easier.

In article <m9sRa.91080$TJ.4982033@twister.austin.rr.com>, Grumman-581
<grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM.houston.rr.com> wrote:

€ From looking at the photos, it was just standard PVC... Since it was not
€ melting, then the limiting factor is not the melting point of the PVC as I
€ had originally assumed you were talking about... The PVC pieces with the
€ holes in them seem somewhat larger in diameter than might be optimal... How
€ tight did the gloves fit on the pieces of pipe? If they formed a fairly
€ tight seal, there would be minimal airflow through there and it could cause
€ the heat to be more than would be normally found in a hair dryer... I've
€ seen similar systems for drying ski and outdoor boots... I've considered
€ building one for drying my ski boots -- I hate putting on a pair of frozen
€ ski boots in the morning...

They're pretty loose. When you turn the handle of the Hot Air Maker to
one side, the gloves can stick at just about any angle you want, and
hot air comes blasting out the bottom.

--
"We're going to rush the hijackers."
-Jeremy Glick, aboard United Airlines flight 93, September 11, 2001