I have been to estate sales where the patriarch had been a committed, competent woodworker. Other auction patrons often won’t bid because they don’t understand the artifacts being offered. Still, there are treasures to be had - assuming that you are patient - and can 3:21 recognize what you are looking at. 3:21
Just a little but of airflow makes all the difference. In retrospect, you could have made the unit square with the blower fan mounted to the center of the lid. That would make the whole unit slightly smaller. Maybe a version 2.0.
Lol my wife thinks his kids will just want "normal" things from the store like what their friends have. It can be hard to appreciate stuff like this when you're young if it makes you stand out from your peers.
On top of that, he makes money from building things. Regarding the wood and hardware prices, sometimes it is cheaper to just buy the stuff. I tend to only build stuff that is too custom to get it anywhere.
I made something similar to dry my gloves and shoes after cycling home from work in the pouring rain. It saves the misery of donning damp clothes the following morning, so well worth the effort.
Your video comes just at the right moment as I really needed that and resorted on paying a hefty price on a commercially available one. Yours is so simple, yet effective, you just saved me 200$!
Your problem solving abilities are amazing. I will probably "steal" this one for the nieces and nephews. Such an awesome, cheap, effective way to take care of wet items. I hate my current boot dryer, so I'll probably modify one for me too. Again thanks for your time and effort sir!
What a great project. As a fellow parent in snow land, I frequently lament how few "spaces" commercial boot and glove driers have. Your design is so much more practical than any I've seen for sale... (And with a shutoff option for each tube as well, wow!)
The printed text on that PVC conduit wipes off easily with acetone! I know it doesn't matter functionally, and won't make it suddenly a beautiful art piece, but I too find myself using PVC and other materials that are typically concealed in things I make, and just cleaning it up makes a big difference.
Awesome, I was getting ready to build one of these, but hadn't yet figured out how to keep air from coming out of the empty pipes. I like your fix. Thanks!
2 hours is pretty good. Thank you especially for providing this detail, as I was wondering how much benefit I would get over just using a fan in a big room.
"Retroactive Precision"--my new favorite phase! It used to be "Measurement is the enemy of precision", but who cares about that when we just just dial it in later. Precious!
I'm somewhat a hero since I put doorhandles on a door and a lock on the letterbox of my appartment block. I can't even imagine if I had your set of skills.
I came with a similar idea to dry my running shoes. I became so excited I even thought it was a good product idea. Then I checked Amazon is full if these dryers 😂😂
Timely. I've been pondering something similar for all my ski gear. A typical day on the slopes gives boot liners, gloves, knee pads and socks that all need drying.
Neat and clever design. We've seen boot dryers of a similar design, but this is the first glove/mitten dryer I've seen (but then, we live in the Southwest USA).
I built something very similar a couple of years ago. The difference is that it is just an open bottom box that sits over the furnace floor vent in our dining room. The kids got to paint it themselves, and it gets used constantly throughout the winter. Mine was designed for enough pipes to hold two kids mittens and boots.
I was gifted a glove/shoe/sock drier once before that was designed without the use of a fan at all. It had long upwards facing tubes the same as your design Matthias, however somewhere in the tube they suspended a fine wire heating element. For air movement it relied on the warmth to cause the air to rise up the tube. It never got "hot" but when you removed a dry pair of gloves from it they were somewhat warm. Less so than out of a proper clothes dryer but noticeable nonetheless. I couldn't comment on the speed of it, as I always simply left it on all night. I'd be curious to know which design was more energy efficient to reach a state of dryness. Great design in any case. The ability to simply turn the tubes to cut off airflow to where it isn't needed... *chef's kiss*
Nice! I used to put them on the radiator of the central heating system, warm and dry :) In 2 hours kids can play outside at 2 hour intervals, daylight allowing of course ;)
It's called the order of operation execution. Trying to make everything perfect before you assemble it is a fool's errand. I'm not saying that's impossible to do. But I will say it's extremely impractical to try to do. It's not so hard to leave some fudge factor meat to work with to make everything flush though.
Good idea. I made something similar for my mom, she paints glass Christmas ornaments and needed a way to dry the coating of paint on the inside. I chose a small blower rather than a fan, better for higher resistance airflow.
I built a ski/snow boot drier years ago with similar components. the air box fed a larger diameter vertical PVC pipe with smaller pipe like yours. the small pipes were inserted into holes in the larger one that were angled up. I used PVC caps to cover the unused ones - your technic is simpler and harder to loose. the extra exit holes are a nice touch too.
My brother has made this years ago to dry his shoes and boots. I've made a simplified version for my surf shoes by mounting mini fans on 25 cm PVC tubes of 32 mm. Works great!
I must say, I saw the title and thumbnail and knowing this channel, my first thought was “Is that some obscure engineering design thing that dries clothes faster or something named after someone named Mitten?” And then went “Ohhhhh a literal Mitten Dryer…” Still cool though! 😂😂😂
Necessity is the mother of invention. The difference between Mattias and most of us is he actually listens to mother! Really cool project. Would be interesting to see solutions to not have to turn tubes to enable airflow and a way to make it automatically turn off once mittens are dry w/ maybe a humidity sensor. I love this project.
Turning the tubes is one of the most elegant and expedient solutions possible. Caps are fiddly, manufactured valves are expensive, making the valve out of the pipe itself like Matthias did here is the right solution.
Thanks for that Wandel! That would have been great for all of the hockey players that would come over for games. That would have dried the hockey gloves and skates really good except now you would have that odor all over the house unless you vented it outdoors! LOL
As kids we would just put mitts, hats, and boots on the floor registers so that the hot air from the furnace would dry them. But I could see something like this be very useful for people who have radiators or electric baseboard heaters.
As someone who just dealt with a flooded first floor, I can confirm that it's amazing how fast a little moving air can dry something out. It took me about 8 hours of shop vac work to get the standing water cleaned up, but a 1HP air mover and a Ryobi shop fan dried out anything they were pointed at in a few hours at most.
I don't know... disappointed... I was expecting raspberry pi with moisture sensors, fan shut off, dry alarm with notification and graphing function. ;-) Happy New Year, hope everyone stays well.
Nice approach. I am a few prototypes in on making something similar for my work van gloves. I have opted to add a small 12v heater block to speed up drying, but that might not be needed
Wow, such a useful device. :) Congrats on the idea. :D
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I just put mine over the heating vent grilles (assuming you have a forced air system, and the air comes from the floor and not from the ceiling). Cool project.
Way back in a previous century gas ovens had a pilot light instead of electric ignition. The pilot light kept the oven warn and dry. My mom used to knit us mittens and when we came in she would lay them on the rack in the warm and dry oven. Later she would preheat the oven for dinner. The smell of toasted polyester would fill the house. Many of our mittens had scorch marks on them. I miss those mittens.
Use the twelve volts you have left over to run a small heater coil just between the fan outlet and the plenum. Warmed air will dry faster and if you don't use them, those twelve volts will just run around making trouble for the twelve that are staying busy pushing that fan round and round.
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"Adding some retro-active precision to the build"... love it! 😂
It’s a Wandelism!
I came here to make the same comment.... Matthias has to know he's a genius but I have to wonder if he knows how much of a comedian he actually is.
Retroactive precision is my new favorite making term!
Retroactive meaning after assembly. Accurate.
Your quote however, inaccurate.
I need to try incorporate this into my psyche when building small projects. Just Brilliant
I love all of the projects inspired by the kids. Can't wait for the kids to get older and dad will jump into some projects on really niche interests.
wooden furry collar maybe?
I have been to estate sales where the patriarch had been a committed, competent woodworker. Other auction patrons often won’t bid because they don’t understand the artifacts being offered. Still, there are treasures to be had - assuming that you are patient - and can 3:21 recognize what you are looking at. 3:21
MAME Arcade cabinet let's gooooooo!
Wooden anime swords and k-pop themed wooden boxes.
I'd love to see a matthias built hardbody guitar for a young person interested in music
Just a little but of airflow makes all the difference.
In retrospect, you could have made the unit square with the blower fan mounted to the center of the lid. That would make the whole unit slightly smaller. Maybe a version 2.0.
indeed
at least his current design possibly reduces the chance of water dripping into the blower fan
I see your kids asking their friends why their dad doesn’t build it whenever they need something. Great stuff.
Lol my wife thinks his kids will just want "normal" things from the store like what their friends have. It can be hard to appreciate stuff like this when you're young if it makes you stand out from your peers.
@@balderdash707 good point, yeah. but eventually as they mature the kids learn to appreciate it.
@@balderdash707 at least Matthias isn't into knitting 🙊
On top of that, he makes money from building things. Regarding the wood and hardware prices, sometimes it is cheaper to just buy the stuff. I tend to only build stuff that is too custom to get it anywhere.
you have such a kids thinking..
The twist-switch is brilliant!
We also use similar dryers here in Norway, but the pipes are angled upwards and hang on the wall above the shoe dryer.
I live in a part of Australia where it never goes below 22°C and I'm still going to watch this video because Mathias is awesome.
You can use it to dry your sweaty gloves :-)
The most impressive aspect is that this was a Christmas present, and you're still married.
Nice version of "dad will have a solution". Reminds me of the mitten-hooks-built in one of the first videos with rachel :)
Clever design. Matthias never disappoints.
That's actually pretty much a carbon copy of sold models.
I made something similar to dry my gloves and shoes after cycling home from work in the pouring rain. It saves the misery of donning damp clothes the following morning, so well worth the effort.
Your video comes just at the right moment as I really needed that and resorted on paying a hefty price on a commercially available one. Yours is so simple, yet effective, you just saved me 200$!
Your problem solving abilities are amazing. I will probably "steal" this one for the nieces and nephews. Such an awesome, cheap, effective way to take care of wet items. I hate my current boot dryer, so I'll probably modify one for me too.
Again thanks for your time and effort sir!
Was thinking of buying one but i have all these things. You make it look easy, thanks for the inspiration. I appreciate you
What a great project. As a fellow parent in snow land, I frequently lament how few "spaces" commercial boot and glove driers have. Your design is so much more practical than any I've seen for sale... (And with a shutoff option for each tube as well, wow!)
I used to dry out my ice hockey gloves with a similar setup - PVC pipe on one end, with a hair dryer on the other. Worked like a champ.
The printed text on that PVC conduit wipes off easily with acetone! I know it doesn't matter functionally, and won't make it suddenly a beautiful art piece, but I too find myself using PVC and other materials that are typically concealed in things I make, and just cleaning it up makes a big difference.
Mitten AND boot dryer. Neat little project.
Yes! A bigger one for both! And toques!
Awesome, I was getting ready to build one of these, but hadn't yet figured out how to keep air from coming out of the empty pipes. I like your fix. Thanks!
2 hours is pretty good. Thank you especially for providing this detail, as I was wondering how much benefit I would get over just using a fan in a big room.
2 hours is great; it's generally considered the amount of time you have to dry something out before bacterial growth is an issue.
"Retroactive Precision"--my new favorite phase! It used to be "Measurement is the enemy of precision", but who cares about that when we just just dial it in later. Precious!
That's how it is commonly done. Nothing earth shattering there.
I'm somewhat a hero since I put doorhandles on a door and a lock on the letterbox of my appartment block. I can't even imagine if I had your set of skills.
Love these types of videos. No fluff, just vintage Matthias.
I love watching your videos with a cup of coffee. Makes me feel like its 2012 again.
My parents had a store-bought version of this when I was a kid. Works great for wet shoes and boots too!
I came with a similar idea to dry my running shoes. I became so excited I even thought it was a good product idea. Then I checked Amazon is full if these dryers 😂😂
can't stop smiling! great build, great design, and so useful!
Loved that centering trick with the drillbit there
Thats a great idea! Gonna have to make me one of those. I really like the design choice of being able to block the pipe inlet holes too!
Great job, ur family is lucky to have you 💕👍
Cool project and great idea!! 👍
Excellent video as always!
Genius as always with turning the pipes!
this is one of those things that one day kids will realise that like nobody expect them had that in childhood
The pure genius of simplicity
Retroactive precision. Love it.
Timely. I've been pondering something similar for all my ski gear. A typical day on the slopes gives boot liners, gloves, knee pads and socks that all need drying.
Necessity is the mother of invention, thank you for sharing Mr Wandel.
Retroactive precision🤣
Most Canadian households could use one of these devices, I know my son generates a lot of soggy mittens.👍🏼
Place fan between pipes, add some angle to place it to the wall. Brilliant Idea, as usual, Mattias!
Neat and clever design. We've seen boot dryers of a similar design, but this is the first glove/mitten dryer I've seen (but then, we live in the Southwest USA).
I built something very similar a couple of years ago. The difference is that it is just an open bottom box that sits over the furnace floor vent in our dining room. The kids got to paint it themselves, and it gets used constantly throughout the winter. Mine was designed for enough pipes to hold two kids mittens and boots.
I was gifted a glove/shoe/sock drier once before that was designed without the use of a fan at all. It had long upwards facing tubes the same as your design Matthias, however somewhere in the tube they suspended a fine wire heating element. For air movement it relied on the warmth to cause the air to rise up the tube. It never got "hot" but when you removed a dry pair of gloves from it they were somewhat warm. Less so than out of a proper clothes dryer but noticeable nonetheless. I couldn't comment on the speed of it, as I always simply left it on all night. I'd be curious to know which design was more energy efficient to reach a state of dryness.
Great design in any case. The ability to simply turn the tubes to cut off airflow to where it isn't needed... *chef's kiss*
Very cool project and it's always great to watch the process.
Nice! I used to put them on the radiator of the central heating system, warm and dry :) In 2 hours kids can play outside at 2 hour intervals, daylight allowing of course ;)
Matthias, everything you make is beautiful.
I was surprised that simply using room temperature air would dry them in 2 hours, good on ya!
You are a great Dad!!!
Russ
I built something similar about 20 years ago using a good will hair dryer. Worked great
The retroactive precision really is a brilliant top tip!
It's called the order of operation execution. Trying to make everything perfect before you assemble it is a fool's errand. I'm not saying that's impossible to do. But I will say it's extremely impractical to try to do. It's not so hard to leave some fudge factor meat to work with to make everything flush though.
great idea and always well executed.
Good idea. I made something similar for my mom, she paints glass Christmas ornaments and needed a way to dry the coating of paint on the inside. I chose a small blower rather than a fan, better for higher resistance airflow.
Great video. Short and to the point.
I built a ski/snow boot drier years ago with similar components. the air box fed a larger diameter vertical PVC pipe with smaller pipe like yours. the small pipes were inserted into holes in the larger one that were angled up. I used PVC caps to cover the unused ones - your technic is simpler and harder to loose. the extra exit holes are a nice touch too.
oh ny god I thought that notif said "kitten dryer" and with the thumbnail... 😱
Lmao that's terrible
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Matthias, Great idea and build. Looks like a good product for sale.
"Retroactive precision" - I love it and am stealing that!
Actually a very good project! Can be adapted also for wet shoes.
My adhd appreciates the length of this vid
My brother has made this years ago to dry his shoes and boots.
I've made a simplified version for my surf shoes by mounting mini fans on 25 cm PVC tubes of 32 mm. Works great!
I love your creativity! 😀💥
I wish that was sold in the store. I would buy one for my grandkids. Great project!
Boot driers are a commercial product.
Good idea! I was wondering why you didn't add a heating element but now I see that's not needed. Simple and easy!
Now all you need is a mitten sensor and timer! LOL
I like the twist-to-enable feature
we have a forced air furnace in our house so I made a similar project which was pretty much a plywood vent cover with some PVC pipes passing through.
'retro-active precision' - my new favourite phrase!
What a good dad!
I must say, I saw the title and thumbnail and knowing this channel, my first thought was “Is that some obscure engineering design thing that dries clothes faster or something named after someone named Mitten?” And then went “Ohhhhh a literal Mitten Dryer…” Still cool though! 😂😂😂
Necessity is the mother of invention. The difference between Mattias and most of us is he actually listens to mother!
Really cool project. Would be interesting to see solutions to not have to turn tubes to enable airflow and a way to make it automatically turn off once mittens are dry w/ maybe a humidity sensor. I love this project.
Turning the tubes is one of the most elegant and expedient solutions possible. Caps are fiddly, manufactured valves are expensive, making the valve out of the pipe itself like Matthias did here is the right solution.
damn genius! you are for sure a super mind to get good ideas!
Built in shut off. Very ingenious.
nice build, thanks for sharing!
We used to put them on radiators of our central heating, but this is a much better system.
I was about to ask a question then at 2:05 you answered it…damn you sure are smart fella!
Cool build!
Thanks for that Wandel! That would have been great for all of the hockey players that would come over for games. That would have dried the hockey gloves and skates really good except now you would have that odor all over the house unless you vented it outdoors! LOL
Perfect build
As kids we would just put mitts, hats, and boots on the floor registers so that the hot air from the furnace would dry them. But I could see something like this be very useful for people who have radiators or electric baseboard heaters.
Very nice, reminds me of somewhat of snowboard boot dryers. And it seems rroom temperature air is plenty warm enough then.
Almost like a Norwegian boot drier.
Very useful.
As someone who just dealt with a flooded first floor, I can confirm that it's amazing how fast a little moving air can dry something out. It took me about 8 hours of shop vac work to get the standing water cleaned up, but a 1HP air mover and a Ryobi shop fan dried out anything they were pointed at in a few hours at most.
Perfect timing - middle of winter... lots of wet gloves!
We have the same MEC mittens for our kids. They work great
Moving to where it's warmer works better.
nice technical solution. you could also lay them on a warm radiator.
Love your videos! Perhaps I need the same for gloves and socks.
I don't know... disappointed... I was expecting raspberry pi with moisture sensors, fan shut off, dry alarm with notification and graphing function. ;-)
Happy New Year, hope everyone stays well.
Very smart design. 😊
we had one that sat over a heating vent with basically the same design to hold mittens
Nice approach. I am a few prototypes in on making something similar for my work van gloves. I have opted to add a small 12v heater block to speed up drying, but that might not be needed
Brilliant as always. I wish I had such an inventive brain.
This is a great invention.
Wow, such a useful device. :) Congrats on the idea. :D
I just put mine over the heating vent grilles (assuming you have a forced air system, and the air comes from the floor and not from the ceiling). Cool project.
Cool. We did similar, but instead of a fan, we put it on top of a vent from the forced air furnace.
I love it! Not ,much use here in South Texass, though. It's Jan 18, and it's 24°C outside.
what a clever idea!!!
Way back in a previous century gas ovens had a pilot light instead of electric ignition. The pilot light kept the oven warn and dry. My mom used to knit us mittens and when we came in she would lay them on the rack in the warm and dry oven. Later she would preheat the oven for dinner. The smell of toasted polyester would fill the house. Many of our mittens had scorch marks on them. I miss those mittens.
Don't tell AOC about your pilot lite!
@@1pcfred Oh. Don’t be a grumble bug 😀
Great Job!
Use the twelve volts you have left over to run a small heater coil just between the fan outlet and the plenum. Warmed air will dry faster and if you don't use them, those twelve volts will just run around making trouble for the twelve that are staying busy pushing that fan round and round.
2023 term of the year: retroactive precision