keeping warm!!

[mistahead]

well i cant complain to much its been pretty mild here so far this year, but we did have a few cold nights and many more to come!!
but anyway i find that the absolute best thing for me to stay warm other than long underwear and a touque and heater and all that stuff is that i have my blower hooked up to a heavy duty dimmer switch type thing that i have right on my bench basicaly just another tool i use alot!! depending on what im doing i set it accordingly!! i find it helps a tonne!!
now to figure out how to keep from buning my face without using some riduculous annoying facesheild?????
cheers
Randy

[menty666]

I finally got wise in my own setup. I have one of those quartz space heaters (the parabolic one stayed off store shelves until a week after I bought it of course). I had the heater next to me, and I have an attic fan on the wall pulling all the baddies out of my space. But along with it is going the heat.

So, I put the heater directly behind me. I figure if the heat's gonna get sucked out, at least it'll smack into me on it's way. It seems to work.

I can cut tubing with my nipples if I go two steps over to my kiln some nights, but hey, one less tool to have on the work surface.

[smutboy420]

AH heat I'm Missing my heat in the shop. We have a reguler house type oil funrnace in our shop. Normaly we just set the thermostate where we want it to be and we can work in just a t shirt even in the coldest NY winter nights.


BUT...... Our land loard decided it would be cool to have his guys come and put on all new outside walls on the building and to replace the leaky roof. Cool as hell Except the roofers ripped out the chimmny to our furnace and its been a few weeks and I still haven't been able to get any one with any free time to go put a new one in for me. Nore have I had any time in the day time to get up there and just do it my self.
So Were hating it as far as heat goes.

[somberbear]

i use a wood stove when it gets cold... they crank out way more heat then i can suck out but i gotta stop between peices and tend it... other then that i do have my kiln on my bench which heats atleast my hands and glass so it isnt going from freezing up....

then i got IR heaters parabolic dish for most every where else... and they do ok... its like a very confined sun heat and it is cheaper to run and doesnt get sucked out nearly as bad as my old quartz ones. other then that i have a water boiler and i make myself some tea or cocoa to help warm the insides....

i also work on larger peices to keep my hands warm... it helps... Work more i guess is the best option....

peace
rob

[staci]

I work outside in a big old tool shead house that we made into my studio, and it is really cold out there. I went outside last night and the floors were flooded, figures living in Oregon huh? Well I have a space heater that I plug in under my desk, so it keeps my legs alive, whyle my torch dose the rest! I am surprised I am still alive after I plugged in my socking wet heater plug last night, oops :dieslaugh

[VinE]

Its all about layering and keeping dry. Space heaters can help but they are expensive to run. It can get real cold up here in the AK, but its a dry cold. If you layer you willl be ok. When I lived in Washington/Oregon I had a tough time keeping DRY and WARM while working. All in all, I think I got it better working up here in the winter, as far as keeping dry and warm.

[PortlandGlassBlowers]

wool socks,long johns ,long sleeve ,hoody,and a glass of wine. Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
and a beenie

[wax808]

I just hooked up an old beastly pellet stove in my shop. My shop is warmer than my house.

The first night I had it running some of my friends were complaining about how hot it was, I went to turn the auger down but the thing wouldnt respond. I figure the circuitboard overheated and the wierd relays wouldnt engage. It was hilarious trying to get this thing to work right while it was burning hot in there.



For making small pieces I like it when it's cold in the shop. Not quite freezing but close. My work goes much faster like this, of course bigger pieces cause problems. I hate having to kiln stuff all the time.

Of course warming up the shop before I work is nice. I dont like warming cold glass.

[David Sandidge]

It's been 75 to 80 degrees for the past week here in Florida, but sometimes it gets cold here and I have to put on long pants and a long sleeve shirt.

[dirtyglass]

Anyone use kerosene heaters? I picked one up at a garage sale a few weeks back for $3. Best 3 dollars ive ever spent. It costs about 4 dollars a day to heat my shop on the cleaner burning k-1 fuel, this seems reasonable to me but Im really not sure. I definately think its a step up from electric heaters. I also have 3 passive air ducts coming in, that I can move, open or close depending what Im doing. Ive found that being able to control how much air Im venting has really helped keep me warm