Tub bucket and heater

[ugluk]

This may be a stupid question since most of you recomend this so it must work but it worries me to put a heater in a plastic tub. Will the heater melt the plastic?

 

[scubaguy]

nope, the heater does not get hot enough to melt the plastic.

 

[reefkprz]

if the bucket was empty then it might but you can boil water in a paper cup didn't you ever do that in boy scouts? kidding, but really you can. water moves when heated so the heat cant focus in one spot enough to melt you ever notice in your tank the heat shimmer moving up off your heater. you really dont have to worry about it.

 

[renogaw]

just make sure its not touching the plastic.

 

[mandarin w]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
if the bucket was empty then it might but you can boil water in a paper cup didn't you ever do that in boy scouts? kidding, but really you can. water moves when heated so the heat cant focus in one spot enough to melt you ever notice in your tank the heat shimmer moving up off your heater. you really dont have to worry about it.
We did that, that was awsome, I showed my kids they freaked out. For those of you who don't know what we are talking about. Next time you go camping, or just have a fire to sit around, take a papercup and fill it with water. Set the papercup on top of the fire. Just put it right on top of the logs. The water displaces the heat so the papercup doesn't catch fire or burn. But as the water evaporates the cup slowly burns away from the top of the cup to the bottom. It is a pretty cool trick to show the kids.

 

[chipmaker]

It matters not if the heater touches the plastic or not. The water itself is too large of a heat sink for it to do any damage. You could use those heaters in a cereal box of water and not worry.

 

[yerboy]

if the bucket is empty it will melt the plastic... i found this out the hard way. Let my ro/di unit run all night and when i woke up i had about 10 gallons in the trashcan and 20 on the floor

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by chipmaker
It matters not if the heater touches the plastic or not. The water itself is too large of a heat sink for it to do any damage. You could use those heaters in a cereal box of water and not worry.

:hilarious