hair dryers

[Chazmo]

I realize this is mundane as hell, and it’s really just a rant, but it bothers me that every hair dryer in Wal-Mart is too powerful to actually use in a bedroom with a 15A fuse (like much of the world uses). That is unless you like tripping and resetting breakers.

Fine… you want to tell me that I should be using a 20A-protected circuit like some bathrooms. OK, well, my 92 year old mother goes from her assisted shower in the bathroom to the bedroom where she is dressed and her hair is dried. Well, whatever… I’m pretty sure there’s a 15A breaker in for the bathroom as well. Sigh.

Of course, I can order a lower-wattage dryer, which I think will be have to be my solution even if there’s a 20A for the bathroom. So, all the Wal-Mart dryers compete with each other and run at over 1800W. A 15A breaker is really only good for about 1400W.

How irritating.

 

[sc00ter]

I have long hair and every time I take a late shower (I work night shift) I loaf on the couch and watch TV until my hair gets dry enough to go to bed. If my wife gets tired of waiting she'll insist on me using her hair dryer to dry it so I can get in bed earlier. I don't know what brand it is but I do know its on the lower wattage side because she'll plug it in anywhere. Bedroom wall socket, bathroom, kitchen if we're washing a cat and even in the old bulb fuse having garage socket. My house was built in the 30's and was half-azzed when the rehab people flipped it before I foolishly purchased it.

I do know she purchased said hair dryer at Bed Bath and Beyond. And I was hoping this thread was about motor scooters!

 

[Chazmo]

And I was hoping this thread was about motor scooters!

Whaaaa….? I’m sure there’s a reference I should get here, but I don’t.

 

[PCeBiker]

I'm using my hair dryer as a boot dryer and melted the insoles because I kept bumping the temperature switch, so I taped over the switch.

Shoe Goo would work better

 

[Gionnirocket]

I realize this is mundane as hell, and it’s really just a rant, but it bothers me that every hair dryer in Wal-Mart is too powerful to actually use in a bedroom with a 15A fuse (like much of the world uses). That is unless you like tripping and resetting breakers.

Fine… you want to tell me that I should be using a 20A-protected circuit like some bathrooms. OK, well, my 92 year old mother goes from her assisted shower in the bathroom to the bedroom where she is dressed and her hair is dried. Well, whatever… I’m pretty sure there’s a 15A breaker in for the bathroom as well. Sigh.

Of course, I can order a lower-wattage dryer, which I think will be have to be my solution even if there’s a 20A for the bathroom. So, all the Wal-Mart dryers compete with each other and run at over 1800W. A 15A breaker is really only good for about 1400W.

How irritating.

Most blow dryers have multiple heat and fan settings... So throttle it down and you should be fine.

 

[PCeBiker]

Most blow dryers have multiple heat and fan settings... So throttle it down and you should be fine.

She's gunna play with the switch.
Just glue it into position.

 

[Roamers]

So, all the Wal-Mart dryers compete with each other and run at over 1800W.

Don't hair dryers have multiple heat settings? My wife said she never uses high; too hot.

 

[PCeBiker]

My 93 year old mother has dementia.
Bad things can happen.

 

[PCeBiker]

I was at my local CanadianTire and some old lady returned a kettle because the power cord was defective.

I could clearly see the melt mark from an electric stove coil on the cord.

The cashier was nice enough to replace the kettle but didn't tell the old lady that she need to turn on the kettle and not the stove to make coffee.

 

[Gionnirocket]

My 93 year old mother has dementia.
Bad things can happen.

She shouldn't be alone.
I'm primary care for 97yr old w/D and it's a full time job

 

[sc00ter]

Whaaaa….? I’m sure there’s a reference I should get here, but I don’t.

Back in the Mods vs. Rocker days in England the Rockers called scooter "hair dryers" because most scooters do look like hair blow dryers from the side. In the USA we call them toilets because they look like your sitting on the pooper from the side. Back when I built fast 2-stroke Zuma scooters I wanted to call the group The Tidy Bowl Cleaners but that didn't go over well. Note that we also had a scooter club called Sparkle Motion! I did win in calling the builds coming from my garage Unicorn Motors though!

 

[PCeBiker]

She shouldn't be alone.
I'm primary care for 97yr old w/D and it's a full time job

My older sister got that job.

Mom always remembers me when I call, but I have to tell her about her other kids.

I'm the black of the family though and it's hard to forget the bad things in life.

 

[PCeBiker]

Back in the Mods vs. Rocker days in England

I delivered Dominos in the early 90's and there was a Really Hot Mod Chick manning the phones.

I asked her out but she said "You're not my type".

I said "You can dress me up any way you want"

She wasn't interested.

I guess I had to be a full patch member from either team to date her?

 

[PCeBiker]

,.. kitchen if we're washing a cat

My cat Hated the blow dryer more than the bath.

I had to dry her though cause she woulda got sick if she was soaking wet for half the day,..

She seemed to be OK with the industrial dryer but I wasn't gunna give her a test ride.

I remember back in the 80's when some old lady tried to dry her cat in the microwave.
It didn't end well.

 

[Gionnirocket]

My older sister got that job.

Mom always remembers me when I call, but I have to tell her about her other kids.

I'm the black of the family though and it's hard to forget the bad things in life.

My sister couldn't handle the situation so as with all things around here.. when the going gets tough, it lands on my plate.
That said.. Mom promised me that one day she would make me pay for being a nogood_dirty_stayout in my teen years and making her worry so much.
And man she wasn't bluffing.. cause the interest rate was high.
That, that said... She deserves to be well taken care of and I'm doing all I can.

 

[harryS]

Let's get back to mobility, Leaf blowers (battery powered) on roller skates. Saw two kids trying to get moving last summer. Works if you're small.

 

[PCeBiker]

Works if you're small.

That might still work for me?
I'm tall but I'm low mass.

My jet pack isn't portable though, so I'd have a 50' tether and a circular orbit around the outlet.
I'd have to lube up my wheel bearings with high tech low friction space lube too.

I've been dreaming of something like these since I got my first real pair of rollerskates in 1979,..

I had been running the crappy steel wheel clamp on version since I was 7 years old,..

I remember dreaming about her thinking she can use My Key Any Time She Wants !!!

 

[sc00ter]

Let's get back to mobility, Leaf blowers (battery powered) on roller skates. Saw two kids trying to get moving last summer. Works if you're sma

Let's get back to mobility, Leaf blowers (battery powered) on roller skates. Saw two kids trying to get moving last summer. Works if you're small.

I had a co-worker who loved to tinker. He should have been in R&D but ended up our emissions engineer. He took one of our battery powered hand held leaf blowers and modded it with a motor from a large RC plane and battery. The owner of the company came in one day and wanted to see the tornado blower. When the owner hit that button it almost blasted him across the room! The wind-up wasn't set yet so it was well over 200mph instantly. Owner thought it was the funniest thing ever! I got punched in the crotch messing with it one day. I could only imagine the repercussions if we killed the owner of the company in our department.

This co-worker worked for Google X last time I heard for their drone research department.

 

[Gordon71]

Let's get back to mobility, Leaf blowers (battery powered) on roller skates. Saw two kids trying to get moving last summer. Works if you're small.

I saw something similar on a rerun of Two and a Half Men. It involved roller skates and a ramp. One teenage boy was in front of the ramp wearing roller skates after stuffing himself with baked beans and the other stood behind him with a butane torch. Didn't work as I recall.

 

[Gordon71]

I realize this is mundane as hell, and it’s really just a rant, but it bothers me that every hair dryer in Wal-Mart is too powerful to actually use in a bedroom with a 15A fuse (like much of the world uses). That is unless you like tripping and resetting breakers.

Fine… you want to tell me that I should be using a 20A-protected circuit like some bathrooms. OK, well, my 92 year old mother goes from her assisted shower in the bathroom to the bedroom where she is dressed and her hair is dried. Well, whatever… I’m pretty sure there’s a 15A breaker in for the bathroom as well. Sigh.

Of course, I can order a lower-wattage dryer, which I think will be have to be my solution even if there’s a 20A for the bathroom. So, all the Wal-Mart dryers compete with each other and run at over 1800W. A 15A breaker is really only good for about 1400W.

How irritating.

Old house? In my house all outlets are 20A with lighting being the only 15A.