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RANDOM HEATER POST

these are the 2 heaters that helped melt the pipes in Feb.
the hotpoint is the first one i ever got. found it at a rummage sale by my grandparents house for $1. at their house. my NY uncle and i discussed what it was. and then, i plugged it in. OH! it was sooooo cool! even with the copper plate damage, it was so neat. when i worked at the stained glass studio, i would use it in winter to keep warm and to heat the glue on the copper tape we made and used. we did tiffany lamp shades and such, JUST like he did. thin copper sheets coated with glue made from beeswax, rosin and lard. while there i devised better ways of dealing with the glue. i am sooo clever.except i only used my oragami knowledge late in my years there. DUH!
well, i thought these things must be very rare. and then i found a few more at an estate sale. got all that worked. got another one for a co-worker that adored red hot mama.
then one year, the boss didn't turn on the heat right away. the glass making room was of course warm, but the studio section? i had brought in red hot mama, and then another co-worker mentioned he had seen a heater at the antique store across the street, so the boss sent me and him to go find as many heaters as we could find. i found a lot more than one. my eyes spotted about 7 assorted. of course we named them all. the 'radio', is a duplicate of one we got for work. right now i think i have 3 of them. this one is nice and quiet.
of course my own collection keeps growing as i find them at estate sales. but i do have 2 ebay heaters. one a cool unusual hotpoint.
have i mentioned for most of our time here on the boring south side, there was a hotpoint plant? sadly it was torn down to make way for a menards. i miss that smoke stack. shame they couldn't let that stay.