Saturday, April 23, 2011

Fire Fire Fire!



The propane is connected! If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a video worth? Here's how chilly mornings in the Airstream will likely begin. Complete with a half-groggy klutz of a fire-operator.



In the time it took you to watch the video, the little catalytic heater warmed the trailer to 10F degrees above the outside temperature. The trailer was already two degrees warmer than ambient outdoor temps but still, that's pretty fast. Just think how warm it would get in ten minutes.

Roll Credits....

Special thanks to Justin Brodersen for his gracious propane tank donation. Special thanks to Justin for the little prank of leaving the valve in the "open" position. I owe you one, buddy.


Special thanks to the guys from Stephen's Heating for safety checking the old propane connections, upgrading the system in the necessary places, and the Propane 101 crash-course.


Special thanks to this valve for not leaking propane.


Special thanks to this flare for weathering 52 years of use and still going strong.


Special thanks to Tom Hanks for suggesting I use his Castaway movie clip.

Special thanks to Jonathan Coulton for permission to use his theme song Still Alive from the game Portal. Additional thanks to JC for supplying a prototype teleportation gun. It's come in handy at least once.

Special thanks to my parents for the kind gift of the catalytic heater. I love you guys and I'm warm now.