ME track,MAJOR installation discovery!

[Chris333]

Arrrrrr I just melted a big hole in my foam.










sike 

[LV LOU]

Well we all know i'm all about the hot air.

I am pleased to inform you that a hair dryer does indeed work.

Daniel,does it stay loose after it cools?If you had a really consistent,low enough temp hair dryer,you could put the hair dryer on one end of a piece of PVC,and put the track in that to get consistent heating..I have a cheapie hair dryer at the shop I could test with,should fit right in a piece of PVC,I think it only cost ten bucks..I E-mailed ME about this..

[C855B]

Arrrrrr I just melted a big hole in my foam.

With a hair dryer?    Don't tell us you tried this with a heat gun. Even on the lowest settings that's the equiv of a 16# sledge.

Daniel, thanks for the confirmation about the hair dryer. I just (like yesterday!) finished installing the hot water heater in the layout building, a little 12-gallon jobbie for hand-washing and occasional utility-sink needs. If it came to be that only hot water worked for solving the ME flexing problem, I'd sort of be wishing we'd gone bigger. It's not like the 12-gal was cheaper - it wasn't - it was just more compact and easier to install, and would in theory use less energy just sitting idle 99.9% of the time.

[LV LOU]

So,you would have put in a bigger one if you saw this thread sooner?

[DKS]

With a hair dryer?    Don't tell us you tried this with a heat gun. Even on the lowest settings that's the equiv of a 16# sledge.

Um... scroll down to the bottom of that post.

[C855B]

Maybe yes, maybe no. The 12-gal was the biggest I could go with a simple 120V 15A circuit. Anything bigger required 240V 30A, not that that alone was a stopping point, just required bigger costs in wire and breaker(s). With the new roof we blew the budget big-time, so I'm tracking relative pennies these days.

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It wasn't clear (to me) it was a joke... maybe being up 'til 4am this morning has some bearing there. But considering it was one of our outstanding modelers, I really should've known better. 

[LV LOU]

Maybe yes, maybe no. The 12-gal was the biggest I could go with a simple 120V 15A circuit. Anything bigger required 240V 30A, not that that alone was a stopping point, just required bigger costs in wire and breaker(s). With the new roof we blew the budget big-time, so I'm tracking relative pennies these days.

Mike,you'll find that short of washing cars or taking a bath,that twelve is probably all you'll need.When I moved into my shop,there was no hot water.I asked the landlord to put one in.I'm only using it to wash my hands and the occasional piece I take out of the ultrasonic cleaner. She put in a 55 gallon,dual element 220 heater.The thing is SO much overkill,it's ridiculous.I turn it off over the weekend,come back,it's still hot.Just took a week off,turned it back on from dead cold,it was hot in twenty minutes.I turn it off because it costs maybe a buck a day or more to feed it..