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Favorite Comment: Fixer Gideon Wells says, “I keep getting distracted by that red and white sphere. Thoughts of a redneck slow cooking a pokemon inside a Pokeball through a makeshift crock pot keep echoing in my head.”
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That looks safer than sliced bread!
Yeah yeah. Its all fun and games before some high idiot knocks the trash can over and kills everyone.
Agreed. When everyone is killed INCLUDING the high idiot, its not all fun and games anymore.. (PS: Herb is my nickname and I am a girl.)
Volkswagen Thing FTW!
It’s the Dolly Madison Bakery’s Zingersmobile.
Looks like a german ww2 staff car.
agreed WTF that caught my eye before the giant fire pit of doom
the VW thing is called a safari and they are the awesomest thing in the world.
In the US it was marketed at the VW Thing. Based on the WWII Kubelwagen Staff car.
that’s what I noticed first too! Thing181= dream car!
lego!
Yup, that is what inpressed me the most in this picture!
Looks kind of like a Citroen “Duck” car but not quite?
I thought it was a Leggo car!
YAYYY! I love that other people know what this is
my neighbor has one on the same color
Forget about plastic– how about the hair on one’s head and arms?
An Olympic hot tub.
the fire is way more interesting than the luke warm water
I like the sign on the side of it “Jethro’s Hot Tub”
Heated CE-ment pond. HOOOO EEEE!
Not just Jethro’s Hot Tub, but Jethro’s Own Hot Tub. Jethro owns it, yaknow.
Dinner’s ready!
Naw, they have to catch it out of the pool, first.
As night falls on the Happy Trails Mobile Home park, the resourceful natives practice redneck multi-tasking as they simultaneously cook a pot of beans, warm themselves, burn their trash and heat the community swimming pool.
and then they burn everything down to clean up!
That’s one giant Pokeball in that thar’ pool. Either that or a giant’s going fishing.
It’s a beach ball.
WOOSH!
ELECTRODE!
He must have used self-destruct to ignite the trash tan.
Could be worse: throw gas over the pool, then light it up.
I’m more amazed that it actually might work than anything else.
Can someone explain how that flaming trashcan works? I’m in the market for a snow-melting kludge. I assume that little thing next to the trashcan is a pump, but how is the fire separated from the water?
I imagine there’s a copper tube in there.
A loop of metal pipe running from one external fitting to the other through the burning material, if they have any sense at all.
There would have to be coils wrapped up in the trash can, like a whiskey still.(not that I’d know anything about that.)
There is probably some copper pipe in there, either coiled flexible pipe or some regular pipe in a grid possibly. There appears to be a connector between the plastic and the metal piping in the photo.
Or maybe just an old car radiator. That’ll do the job.
Yeah, I’m thinking they’ve dumped gasoline on the top of a trashcan mostly filled with water. Look at the sharp transition where the galvanizing has survived down below (can is still cooler) and the not-so-galvanized portion on top. I’m thinking that transition is the water line. The inlet from the pool is pouring water down from the upper connection to the water below, and the only way that wouldn’t be putting the fire out is if it was some sort of gas fire on the surface. I’m betting its totally ineffective at heating the water up, but it’s sure to be exciting when they add more lighter fluid.
Could this be early on in the process? Also, the can might be kept cool lower down by the coil (possibly running right up against the walls.
Depending on the amount of tubing inside, it’s probably ineffective. However, if they gutted a used tankless water heater or radiator and have a decent wood/trash pile going underneath, then it’s got a chance of making the water hot enough to skinny dip at midnight on a cool night in Texas or Mexico.
The correct way to kludge this would be with a radiator and a small number of cinder blocks and some duct work to form a J-shaped combustion chamber with fuel fed into the lower end of the J and the radiator on top. This is a rocket stove.
Actually, I think they should have added a fan. Blast furnace ftw.
Could be. I have a hard time imagining that they really kludged up a good heat exchanger in there, and would solder survive open flame? I dunno.
I’m thinking they pulled the radiator out of an old VW bug.
Monotube boilers use a pump to circulate the water, but would require (obviously) a lot of tube, but, with the right tube bent around in there, there would be only a few strictly mechanical connections inside or simply the two soldered connections outside. Remember, they’re intending to make hot water, not steam.
By evidence of the galvanization and the levels of the connectors, I’m wondering if they have a second trash can of flaming stuff inside the large trashcan (e.g. on cinder blocks and weighted down). This would be a very similar to a locomotive boiler. The constant flow of water would likely keep it cool enough to not melt the plastic or the solder.
Either way, I want to order up some training manuals to become a real steampunk and actually build this the right and safe way.
Who needs “right” and “safe” when you have duct tape?
What are you trying to do? Get featured on thereifixedit . com?
Duct tape does not hold up to these temperatures. Seriously.
If he’s using a monotube boiler with walls that are thin enough to leak before they blow, then it’s reasonably safe for what it is.
K+Y jelly, however, will be a necessary purchase. A fireman who shoveled coal on a historic locomotive told me the engines require water based lubricant to fit the parts together so as to avoid a steam explosion for reasons that currently escape me. You can imagine the look of the clerk in a pharmacy where he bought out the entire stock of K+Y.
I think the “explosion” that you’re talking about is when the superheated, superexpansive steam swiftly splinters the boiler into shrapnel when either the heat melts through the boiler or the boiler is breached. Alliteration is awesome. (and also annoying.)
KY or K-Y. The letters are meaningless (today), but the names is trademarked, so there is a correct and well-defined spelling.
What. Lube is serious business.
My friend who was working special FX for a movie shoot had to buy out a store’s supply of KY one night. They needed more to make the monster all drippy and shiny wet looking.
a smaller can inside it with the fire in the small can the water in between. this would work like a old boiler
Fire, bathe with me.
It would be a whole lot simpler if they’d just plug in the toaster and chuck it in the deep end. Next to the hairdryer.
I smell a lawsuit in the works, followed by the manufacturer adding a 5th warning label to the side of their swimming pools…a circle with a slash through a flaming trash can attached to a water pump.
I want to see that in my next pool manual
Written in Engrish, of course. The notice about flaming trash can heating will be directly under the “Keep out of children” warning.
So, have you migrated from engrishfunny . com to this website or from this website to engrishfunny?
Engrish Funny was around before this one, wasn’t it? I may be thinking of engrish.com being around before engrishfunny. If not, then yeah, I was there before here, and still occasionally comment there.
Followed by an alternate warning: “…or listen to Jethro’s self-proclaimed ‘money saving’ idea.” It’ll show a circle with a slash through a man whose head is on fire.
Madez me LOL!!
“What’s The Melting Point Of Plastic Again?”
Depends on the plasitc. Some burn (e.g. plexigalss (pmma)), some only mel. Som at high temperatures, some at low ones.
The Arbitrary School sends yet another graduate out into the world.
I spy with my little eye, something made during world war 2.
If you’re talking about the Volkswagon Safari in the background, they were made in the 1970′s. I used to drive one in Costa Rica.
They were sold in the U.S. as the Volkswagen Thing. Really. That was the name.
If it’s the guy with his head seemingly on fire, I don’t think he’s quite that old.
Wait a minute… is this about duct tape?
Seemingly?
Trick of the light. So was the emergency rescue team that showed up right after this photo was taken.
I keep getting distracted by that red and white sphere. Thoughts of a redneck slow cooking a pokemon inside a Pokeball through a makeshift crockpot keep echoing in my head.
OH MY GOD MY FEAROW!!!
YUMMMM!!!!!!
Tastes like chicken
ROFLMAO.
Seriously.
Thank you, sir, you just made my day!
I hate to butt in like this, but that’s actually a voltorb.
Ghetto-mod =0D
Well, looks like someone is getting into hot water there…
I bet the pokemon in the pokeball is a fire-type
But the pokéball’s in da pool, so may be fire/water. Oh, god, does it really exists?
It’s an Electrode, for added danger!
Take your pick: fifty-degree pool water or third-degree burns.
Why not both? A fifty degree pool to soothe those third degree burns?
Out of the frier and into the freezer?
Its very clear how it works it takes water from the pool pumps it into a copper coil in the trashcan, the pump as well as the heat makes the water raise to the top and back into the pool
This is pretty awesome probably get the whole thing for under $200.00 beats paying 4K for a Jacuzzi and then a high water bill. It portable too! About 20 years ago I was camping in hawaii and some guys did something similiar to make hot showers.
An old radiator or two would probably work better than copper piping.
Save chlorine.
Turn your filter into a hellish pit of fire to roasts those germs.
Darwin Award Candidate. Nuff said.
“We’ve secretly switched out the water in the pool with gasoline. Lets watch.”
**cue the dueling banjos and rusting trailer-part dwellings.**
You just described Fontana, CA.
I’ve seen a similar rig at a camping event ages ago, only it was a clawfoot bathtub with a hose running from the drain to a car radiator set over a wood fire, and then another hose going back over the side of the tub. No pump; I assume it worked by convection. If I’d gotten a picture, I’d have submitted it here already.
That sounds like the original water heater design which was a major improvement over setting a wood fire under the tub (serious)
We had a toroid hot water tank with wood fire underneath.
Heat went up the center and up around the circular sides.
The tap was at bottom, closest to the heat.
Got water hot enough that a bucketful had to be cut with part of a bucket of cold water, when was poured into tin tub for the weekly bath.
At least each of us had Separate tubs of water.
And yes, this is All True!
You mean like this?
http://thereifixedit.com/2009/07/16/epic-kludge-photo-two-person-hot-tub/#comments
Is his head on fire or is it just me?
I was thinking that too.
They’re stealing those poor hobo’s heating!
there’s a car radiator in the flames. I wonder how long before they ran out of fuel and how tepid the water got.
he’s squirting charcoal lighter fluid for added drama
“What’s The Melting Point Of Plastic Again?”
…which kind?
And speaking of Kludges, why did I just have to practically pull a gun on the site to get it to actually honor my “log out” requests?
Forget the hot tub I WANT THAT VW THING O-o
The fact that there’s an old VW Thing in the background makes this priceless.
Am definitely printing this and sticking it on the corkboard at work. I work at a BIG BOX store that sells these pools and people constantly ask me if we sell heaters for the water. As the answer is NO (not sure why – because the buyer gods are too stupid to realize that it’s something they should clue in on) I would LOVE just to have a secret giggle to keep to myself the next time someone asks. (Well, you know… i did see this picture one time…)
Love the VW Thing in the background. Hippy’s are definitely involved.
Looks like buddies head is on fire :\ Any one with a brain would know that all that is a bad idea…
Well, this must be coast-living people’s version of “fireplace”.
I’d love to know when this photo was taken…those VWs rusted away as fast as 1978 Trans Am’s
Palm trees in the background. Definitely the southern US, probably SoCal, where there is no ice on the roads, and thus no salt to rust vehicles.
Palm trees and salty sea air, maybe? I’d be happy to deal with that instead of snow and road salt right about now…
*sigh*
I did a massive double take when I saw this pic. I live in Connecticut, and there’s a yellow VW Thing just like that which lives about half a mile up the road from me. I don’t know where the Thing has been since the 70′s, but for the last couple years it’s been going past the house on a fairly regular basis, leading me to believe it’s someone’s daily driver.
What I wouldn’t give for a good sharp pin right now.
Some people just invite death by doing “stoopid” stuff; Darwin Awards all around!
Jethro is in heated competition with his dead neighbor who submitted the ‘Of Course, Beer Was Involved’ kludge.
I read Jethro on that sign and I immediately though NCIS. ♥ I love that show.
You know Iron Chef must really be running out of ideas when they decide to make the cooking competition’s theme ingredient “swimming pool water”.
I think an easier recipe for hot tub would be, 1) periodically aim torch at water in center of pool for a bit, then 2) get obnoxious neighborhood kid to stir.
What this yard needs is a big stock tank.
What’s that, you say? That would be tacky? Sorry, but I have some bad news for you…
you know you live in Kansas when….
teh kiddies klamour for a stock tank and swim suits in teh summer timze!
My reaction to this was the same as Nick’s in Left 4 Speed 2 when he saw the Spitter.
Notice the guy on the right appears to be catching fire. heh.
The Food Network presents: “BBQ with Bobby Flayme“
*clonk*
Later on, if the party goes in the right direction and the cops aren’t around, this thing becomes Jethro’s Own Soup Tureen.
why is Poland Ball in the pool?
It’s the ultimate ghetto hot tub! Now available at the Home Depot.
sad thing is…..I work in the pool industry…and I have to tell people no to this all the time….*facepalm……
LMAO @ GIDEON.
And yeeeaaaah…When plastic heats up a lot it tends to release fumes….
Which could explain this picture, really.
I was trying to figure out how this was supposed to work. Then I saw the VW and, owning one myself, I was suddenly enlightened. This process is extremely safe.
look pa a grill and hot tub in one
Looks almost like someone is planning to deep fry whole pigs!
This looks like the same people who floated a power strip (plugged in) in the pool on a flip flop…
douche nozzle