Mouth of the dragon's lair (the secret revealed)
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Mouth of the dragon's lair (the secret revealed)
Anybody want to take a guess what this really is?
Hint: field width about 15 mm.
--Rik
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Well, following with the Charles combustion pipe hypothesis, according Betty resin idea, and in winter time...Charles Krebs wrote:Looks like an orifice or unintended hole in a natural gas pipe that has collected combustion deposits around the opening. That would fit with the "fiery breath" that was observed, but what appliance, device it goes with/to...????
...perhaps you are burning wood at home and the resin and gaz escapes from the wood when it is heavily heated (with orange tree and other woods it works)
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OK then... an electric heating coil or element of some type (but what? )
If the field width is about 15mm that would make the diameter of the part about 6-7mm. Perhaps about right for an electric oven element, but far too "messy" and...
If the field width is about 15mm that would make the diameter of the part about 6-7mm. Perhaps about right for an electric oven element, but far too "messy" and...
How about the heating element from an old hot water heater? Don't know how you would have seen fiery breath (steam?) but you do some strange things Rik...no participation by natural gas, wood, or other combustible organics
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In fact I was stirring a pot of soup at the time... (Some of the previous guesses are getting quite close. )rjlittlefield wrote:While I admit to doing some strange things, pressurized hot water snorkling is not one of them.
Here's a closer view, by the way. This was shot with a Nikon CFI BE Plan Achromat 4X NA 0.10, using EOS Utility to step focus on the tube lens. Illuminated by a desk lamp, shot with EFSC to avoid vibration blur.
--Rik