I kicked my heater by accident yesterday and broke its plastic grill guarding the heating element. Currently sitting on the floor holding it at a weird angle until the superglue dries as I try to glue it back together.

I have never yet successfully used super glue in my life without getting some on my hands. Gods I hate this stuff.

[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Baking soda and super glue work really well together to make a very strong bond to fuse things back together, though it still leaves a hell of a mess if your not careful.

Does that help with keeping super glue off your hands? No, pretty sure super glue is magically teleporting to your fingers to try and glue them together.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you're in the financial position to, and/or don't mind having to turf your current heater, Kmart has them for $15 and they still seem to be in stock (they don't stock them past the first month of winter as I learnt the hard way last year, so best to replace early if you think it won't last you the winter)

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah I could definitely buy a new one. I'm not a fan of buying new stuff when the old stuff still works though. Especially when, for reasons discussed elsewhere, this should only need to last me one season.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I dont know your situation, but if you have access to reverse cycle AC it is way more efficient than those heaters. Even if its on in the lounge room and you have the bedroom door open to share it. It sounds a little against logic - heating up multiple rooms is cheaper than heating up where I'm sitting/sleeping? But those heaters are like 1W electricity = 1W heat, whereas reverse cycle AC is like 1W electricity = 4W of heat or so. Also pretty much anything newer than 10 years old is going to be variable speed so it just hums along to maintain temp rather than going full blast, no blast, full blast, no blast so the average consumption is even lower. Also less chance of setting fire to something too, and much harder to kick accidentally (unless you are practising bicycle kicks or similar in the lounge room which I am not judging but probably isnt the best activity to carry out in that space)

Otherwise oil heaters (or anything else with a big thermal mass) is good cause you have a nice big chunk of something to keep radiating heat even when the unit has cycled off.

I added the wifis and the bgs to our AC and now it automatically does all sorts of stuff and I feel like hackerman. I also have an oil heater for the computer room / puppy room cause it doesn't have reverse cycle AC and its too far away from the lounge room to share. I mean I'm a fridgie so I should have AC in there... but it's like a mechanics car. Always poorly maintained and broken. You don't get home from work to do more work, know what I mean?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah unfortunately right now I don't have AC in my bedroom; only in the lounge/dining/kitchen area. That should be changing at some point later this year when I move, but for now I'm stuck with a space heater in a highly un-insulated apartment.

Otherwise oil heaters (or anything else with a big thermal mass) is good cause you have a nice big chunk of something to keep radiating heat even when the unit has cycled off.

Yeah but they also take longer to heat up in the first place, so their energy use balances out to be basically equal to a space heater at 1 W used/W heated.

I added the wifis and the bgs to our AC

Yeah when I move I'm gonna have connected AC. Very looking forward to that.

Dunno what bgs is though.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dunno what bgs is though.

It's a very old meme. Sometimes I forget how old and decrepit I am and reference memes that only exist in ancient texts. Or YouTube videos that were uploaded in 360p.

https://youtu.be/FL7yD-0pqZg

Wifis and the *gbs

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Ha! I've seen that video before. In fact YouTube even surfaces for me my old comment from 13 years ago, which must have been back before the new chat system was implemented because it's a reply to someone else posted as a top-level comment. I never would have made the connection between that and your comment, though. Partly because it was an obscure connection, and partly because I'm old enough to have forgotten more memes than I still know.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh and I guess that makes me first?

[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Winner!