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Default Shop heat -- getting rid of condensation

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
Since it warmed up to a balmy 30 degrees today I got to work in the
shop for a while. We recently had a thread about condensation.
Today I came up with an idea that worked.

Since I have little use these days for a hair dryer, I took it to the
shop with me. Cranked up the heater, but I also put some localized
heat right on the saw top, and a few other cast iron pieces. It
eliminated the forming of condensation, plus it added 1200 watts of
heat for the 10 minutes that I ran it.


Any type of radiant heater would also do the same thing. The guy with the
big propane heater that had the condensation problem could probably run a
small propane radiant unit facing his machines and eliminate the
condensation. I never get my shop warm enough for moisture to condense, at
least in January.