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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Canada ain't nothing for cheap. Except the light bulb.

Jokes aside until Amazon started bringing us cheap crap there was no practical low cost alternative, aside from gutting a coffee pot or something. I fixed an old water trough once that was heated by a 240v stove element brazed to the stubs of the old 120v one that had burned out. 2kW / 4 = 500W which is about the right power level for this job.

Stove element from the dump $0, Canarm watering bowl element $70

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually I agree, it's a pretty good source of heating elements. I've scavenged from some old toasters and sandwich iron