@mollama I don’t have a thermometer in the front yard, so unfortunately I don’t have adequate data to provide a truthful response. But for the sake of brevity, let’s assume it was 91* in the front yard.
@whistlingwilly As a native Arizonan whose parents are both from Montana, it’s embarrassing to me that more of these appear to have been sold in Arizona than in Montana.
I fear that by the time this arrives, it may be useless for several months. But a fan only mode means it can just blow neutral air, right? Maybe I’m game.
@jml326 yeah…on wednesday & thursday i had all the windows open as temps were in the 50s. today it’s 9 degrees. on tuesday we’re to expect a foot & a half of snow. yay, springtime in boston.
One day Imma click on the Meh.com bookmark on my favorites page and the site is gonna pop up and a really cool, awesome, interesting and useful product is going to be offered and I won’t be able to click the Buy It button fast enough.
Today… is not that day, my friends. Today is not that day.
@thrashertm I searched the model number very first Google result is Walmart $22 the only difference is the addition of -WMT to the end of the model number.
Unfortunately with smartpost, by the time this gets to me it’ll be summer and useless until next winter, which by the way global warming is happening may never come
Okay. No one said what it is by the time I got here, soooooooo…
The hand grenade fire extinguisher is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Before the advent of pressurized fire extinguishers like we have today, there were huge heavy ones with hand pumps at the top. A much lighter weight alternative to this was a hand grenade fire extinguisher. They were glass globes full of fire retardant liquid chemicals that you throw directly into fires to put them out. From what I’ve seen, they were pretty effective, and the only trouble with them was in storing fragile glass balls full of chemicals. There you go, meh, glad to help be of service.
@ethansight same. there are zero places in my apartment where heat coming out the back of something like this would be good or useful, unfortunately. i’ll just stick with my electric blanket.
The price is right. But I see some reviewers on amazon saying it didn’t even last a year! But I swear I kill heaters. So that makes me afraid to buy this. I’m pretty sure I have something similar too, used to use it at a former job, made sure I took it with me when I got fired though! Still have it and use it once I a while. So…the question is, should I chance buying it as a back up in case the other one finally dies…
@savvysapphire It’s ONLY $17 (if you have VMP). What do you have to lose? If I see something I want for less than $20, usually just buy it. In this case, however, I already have two of them (one for upstairs bedroom and one for the home office…)
I have one at my office. Works great. Ironically, I left mine on when I left for the weekend yesterday. 50/50 chance it survives the arctic weekend chill we are expecting, as it will likely be running non-stop.
I’ve actually had TWO of these for about 2 years (bought them on HSN). I was completely surprised that they are actually great little heaters. The output isn’t much at first, but leave them on for a while and they WILL heat up an entire (small to medium sized) room. You can only burn yourself if you touch the screen part, as the top and control panel stay cool to the touch.
I bought a significantly larger and more powerful one (from a different manufacturer) on HSN last year (I wanted to heat the bedroom faster and have a timer and remote, which these don’t), and it doesn’t do nearly the job that these ones can… For the money, you can’t do any better.
I bought a significantly larger and more powerful one
1500 watts is the maximum power allowed for any plug-in heater (and almost any such heater offers 1500 watts). The other heater may be larger, but it is restricted to the same power level as this one.
You’re right, the price point is excellent.
You wanted to know what “The Butz and Mendenhall Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher Company” means. This from Wikipedia should help: “Another type of carbon tetrachloride extinguisher was the fire grenade. This consisted of a glass sphere filled with CTC, that was intended to be hurled at the base of a fire (early ones used salt-water, but CTC was more effective). Carbon tetrachloride was suitable for liquid and electrical fires and the extinguishers were fitted to motor vehicles. Carbon tetrachloride extinguishers were withdrawn in the 1950s because of the chemical’s toxicity - exposure to high concentrations damages the nervous system and internal organs. Additionally, when used on a fire, the heat can convert CTC to phosgene gas, formerly used as a chemical weapon.”
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher#/media/File:Snohomish_-Blackman_House_Museum-_Comet_fire_extinguisher_02A.jpg]
I’m sticking to my oil heaters. I turn it on when I work from home so I don’t run my house heater. In an hour I turn it off and am toasty. The residual heat of the oil keeps the room warm until the afternoon sun warms up the room.
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It’ll be 90 in Phoenix tomorrow, meh.
@whistlingwilly It was 93 in my back yard today. ☀️
@ruouttaurmind what about the front yard?
@ruouttaurmind Gross.
@mollama I don’t have a thermometer in the front yard, so unfortunately I don’t have adequate data to provide a truthful response. But for the sake of brevity, let’s assume it was 91* in the front yard.
@ACraigL Just to be clear, I wasn’t referring to my personal back yard.
/giphy junk in the trunk
@whistlingwilly As a native Arizonan whose parents are both from Montana, it’s embarrassing to me that more of these appear to have been sold in Arizona than in Montana.
@DocBJ Population. Arizona has more.
Also not all of Arizona is a burning hot dry desert …
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/a-dry-heat
It surround itself?
It blows
I fear that by the time this arrives, it may be useless for several months. But a fan only mode means it can just blow neutral air, right? Maybe I’m game.
@Dizavid Nope, never mind, the reviews suggest a very high failure rate. Fudge it. MEH IT TO HELL, BABY!!
It’s been a roller-coaster here in the midAtlantic…
@jml326 yeah…on wednesday & thursday i had all the windows open as temps were in the 50s. today it’s 9 degrees. on tuesday we’re to expect a foot & a half of snow. yay, springtime in boston.
I was about to buy it before I realized it WASN’T a giant bluetooth speaker! Sure looks like it. I almost got ‘stung’
@SoftAsFur My thoughts exactly tonight…
Now Meh is just selling stuff that looks like Bluetooth speaker. It’s a step in the right direction.
Bender? Is that you?
/image Bender
@2many2no
I expected a “360 Surround Heater” to be a very large donut-shaped contraption where you sit at the center, heated from all angles simultaneously.
Calling this a “Surround Heater” is like putting a single speaker on a rotating stand in the middle of your room and calling it “surround sound”.
Wait… maybe it has tiny little wheels and constantly scoots around the perimeter of your room, while staying pointed toward the center?
@awk Here’s your speaker.
@sligett Thanks for the link - the Leslie was my first thought.
@awk A rumba heater…
@sligett Cool article. Thanks!
What’s that smell?
Why, it’s a Honeywell 360 Surround Heater!
#DriveBy
One day Imma click on the Meh.com bookmark on my favorites page and the site is gonna pop up and a really cool, awesome, interesting and useful product is going to be offered and I won’t be able to click the Buy It button fast enough.
Today… is not that day, my friends. Today is not that day.
That write up is worth the $17, and it’s getting down to 9 degrees here tonight.
Why is it 50% of the time I type in “Meh” I type in “Wew” by mistake?
Can I use this to heat my swimming pool? Don’t worry, I’d get the kids out first.
$22 at walmart, I guess you save a few dollars in you’re actually in the market for one.
@badmnky $33 at walmart for this model.
@thrashertm I searched the model number very first Google result is Walmart $22 the only difference is the addition of -WMT to the end of the model number.
@badmnky Good call. I searched on their website before and didn’t find it, but now I got it.
Unfortunately with smartpost, by the time this gets to me it’ll be summer and useless until next winter, which by the way global warming is happening may never come
Okay. No one said what it is by the time I got here, soooooooo…
The hand grenade fire extinguisher is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Before the advent of pressurized fire extinguishers like we have today, there were huge heavy ones with hand pumps at the top. A much lighter weight alternative to this was a hand grenade fire extinguisher. They were glass globes full of fire retardant liquid chemicals that you throw directly into fires to put them out. From what I’ve seen, they were pretty effective, and the only trouble with them was in storing fragile glass balls full of chemicals. There you go, meh, glad to help be of service.
@ConradHilton And still in use, albeit in a less fragile form. https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/suppression-equipment/articles/1588834-When-and-how-to-use-fire-grenades/
@kaighintze well that’s cool. I didn’t know they still made anything like that anymore. Learn something new every day.
@ConradHilton Here’s a little more detail about them; I’ve seen a few in my lifetime, but only a few. They were apparently very good for things like cabins where you not be there for months and wanted something automated to kill a fire without the need for a sprinkler system https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/suppression-equipment/articles/1588834-When-and-how-to-use-fire-grenades/
@ConradHilton Thank you! Excellent description. You’re a modern-day Butz.
I like ours because it heats a room. My wife doesn’t like it because it is really easy to burn your hand on it
No problem of Meh, but I honestly want a fan that blows hot air in a specified direction
@ethansight I believe you are supposed to blame @mikibell.
@ethansight same. there are zero places in my apartment where heat coming out the back of something like this would be good or useful, unfortunately. i’ll just stick with my electric blanket.
Bender’s evil cousin.
@MrJazz Flexo
The price is right. But I see some reviewers on amazon saying it didn’t even last a year! But I swear I kill heaters. So that makes me afraid to buy this. I’m pretty sure I have something similar too, used to use it at a former job, made sure I took it with me when I got fired though! Still have it and use it once I a while. So…the question is, should I chance buying it as a back up in case the other one finally dies…
@savvysapphire It’s ONLY $17 (if you have VMP). What do you have to lose? If I see something I want for less than $20, usually just buy it. In this case, however, I already have two of them (one for upstairs bedroom and one for the home office…)
I have one at my office. Works great. Ironically, I left mine on when I left for the weekend yesterday. 50/50 chance it survives the arctic weekend chill we are expecting, as it will likely be running non-stop.
Gosh… a heater and a white noise generator (the fan stupid) combined… who wants noisy heat
a RADIANT heater is mo’ betta
@dickybilly Couldn’t agree more. I am considering to return it or sell it to other people.
@jqshen there’s no returns for buyers remorse. You can only get help for broken items.
I’ve actually had TWO of these for about 2 years (bought them on HSN). I was completely surprised that they are actually great little heaters. The output isn’t much at first, but leave them on for a while and they WILL heat up an entire (small to medium sized) room. You can only burn yourself if you touch the screen part, as the top and control panel stay cool to the touch.
I bought a significantly larger and more powerful one (from a different manufacturer) on HSN last year (I wanted to heat the bedroom faster and have a timer and remote, which these don’t), and it doesn’t do nearly the job that these ones can… For the money, you can’t do any better.
@comics360
1500 watts is the maximum power allowed for any plug-in heater (and almost any such heater offers 1500 watts). The other heater may be larger, but it is restricted to the same power level as this one.
You’re right, the price point is excellent.
You wanted to know what “The Butz and Mendenhall Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher Company” means. This from Wikipedia should help: “Another type of carbon tetrachloride extinguisher was the fire grenade. This consisted of a glass sphere filled with CTC, that was intended to be hurled at the base of a fire (early ones used salt-water, but CTC was more effective). Carbon tetrachloride was suitable for liquid and electrical fires and the extinguishers were fitted to motor vehicles. Carbon tetrachloride extinguishers were withdrawn in the 1950s because of the chemical’s toxicity - exposure to high concentrations damages the nervous system and internal organs. Additionally, when used on a fire, the heat can convert CTC to phosgene gas, formerly used as a chemical weapon.”
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher#/media/File:Snohomish_-Blackman_House_Museum-_Comet_fire_extinguisher_02A.jpg]
I’m sticking to my oil heaters. I turn it on when I work from home so I don’t run my house heater. In an hour I turn it off and am toasty. The residual heat of the oil keeps the room warm until the afternoon sun warms up the room.
Can I add another one?
@cristysue yes, just order it again before midnight est.
they usually limit a total of 3 items, but sometimes raise and lower the limit, this one looks like 3 max.
you can see how many you have already ordered in the “my orders” area.
/giphy blowing hot air
Best giphy ever…