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Fido Fittings
Fittings which allow connection between garden hose and box heat exchanger. | |
Here in the Great South Land, it's winter. To wash my dog yesterday, I had to set up a makeshift heat exchanger by stuffing as much of my garden hose as possible into a large plastic tub then filling the tub with buckets of hot water - the output was still too chilly for my old dog's comfort.
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have effective heat exchange eskies (NZish: Chilly Bins. USAish: Coolers / Ice Boxes) which can be bought or rented for chilling beer at parties - the beer is passed through a metal coil immersed in an ice slurry. What is needed is some sort of adapter fittings so that such eskies can be placed on a garden hose line. Fill the eskie with hot water. Old dirty dogs can then be washed with nice warm water.
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You could run the hose inside to a hot water tap, no? Okay, how about making the "cooler" a solar powered heat exchanger with some sort of heat sink material inside? |
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I vote + out of sympathy for the dog. but we'd also hook up the hose to the inside tap. |
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I always just took the dog in the shower with me. |
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[phoenix], [dentworth] yes, a fixture directly to an inside hot tap is the ideal solution, but that would be 'baked to perfection' rather than 'half-baked' :) |
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Some far-sighted developers are baking this already {Zanzibar] - reflecting the importance of pets in people's lives, there are some house designs that incorporate a tiled dog washing section near a rear or side entrance, with the necessary plumbing. (my dream home <sniff>) |
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[Zanzibar] could you post a picture of that? Or email it to me. |
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Did anyone else think this was going to be some way to attach dogs to one another under the guise of union labor? |
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