Inside a boot dryer (possible Peet clone?)
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- I've always wanted to explore one of the classic American Peet boot dryers, but they never seemed to do a version for 220-240V countries.
While having a random browse for similar items I came across a single eBay listing for just one item and bought it to explore. The box came in a brown paper Amazon bag, but when I searched for the item it was shown as not being available.
It's interesting that this unit claims to be "the original". So which came first? The American-made Peet unit or this one?
The Peet-style units are quite neat in that they rely purely on warm air convection to warm boots or shoes and carry the humid air out. As such they are silent, but much slower than forced air versions. However, this also has the advantage of not overheating the footwear and damaging it.
The heater assembly is refreshingly simple with most of the structure being an aluminium shroud to protect the plastic pipes from heat damage. At the base a metal pin passes through holes in the aluminium shroud and then goes into a groove at each side and is locked in place by fins on the plastic cover. I'd guess that the heater assembly and plastic boot supports have evolved with time.
The heat source is two ceramic 700 ohm resistors with a power rating of 25W.
In the UK they are wired in series meaning there is 120V across each resistor. That calculates as a current of I=V/R I=120V/700ohm I=170mA
Power dissipation per resistor is P=IV P=0.17A*120V P=20.4W
In 100-120V countries the same 700 ohm resistors could be wired in parallel or two 330ohm or 390ohm resistors could be used in series.
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Bit more advanced than scrunched up newspapers!
Newspapers are good at drying your footwear! Heat... Not so much... I'm talking from experience! Things like to shrink...
@@RaxaPKXD this is correct, I was going to reply the same, except note it's not so much the heat, it is the water drying too quick with heat being the helper. The advantage of paper is you can stretch outwards to ease tight shoes and boots a bit.
I suspect those resistors would be paralleled for 110-120VAC. No change in BOM needed.
@@RaxaPKXD when dried slowly with low power, I don't think there will be any shrinkage.
They are a worthy investment for wet sock haters everywhere
Reminds me of my late father tipping his cold boots (kept outside) over my hands in winter so I could feel the cool air falling out of them!! It was my first lesson in thermodynamics!
This still kind of confuses me because they say hot atoms move toward cold atoms and disipate energy, so cold air never comes in (or out in the case of your fathers boots) according to this, its hot air leaving, and so maybe feeling cold come in is just actually the sensation of hot air leaving? But you can phsyically feel cold air move toward you when you open a window on a winter day, is this just an illusion?
@@mikejones-vd3fg , air behaves very much like a fluid; you can feel a fluid in motion against you whether it's warm or cold, can't you?
@@goodun2974 Good point, atoms have momentum too regardless how much energy they have, which jsut complicates the hot to cold model hah,so no real greater understanding. Maybe the momentum works upto apoint and then then the hot to cold thing takes over. Why when you open a window you get a draft comming in but eventually the movement of air is all the hot air escaping your place. unless a wind gust can counter act it but it probably would be disapated away from a heat source. Say you blow some cold air onto the sun its going to disappate all its energy before the sun has a chance to feel its effect. But if you blew enough could air you could actually push the hot solar energy back toward the sun ,or away from it it would feel the breeze so to speak. I saw some video of rolling clouds in fast motion and it really did look like water waves rolling and crashing. We are living in an oxygen ocean, water is just a denser version, we are bottom dwellers while birds are just swimming. Well not really they have to land too, its not that boyant as water, but youre right, it does behave the same.
@@mikejones-vd3fg Moving something always takes precident over heat moving from a cold place to a warm place.
Air is a fluid just like water, so pouring cold air onto hands shows that cold air is denser (which is why you can pour it out, it sinks) and the amount of time it would take hot air to equalise with cold air is significant.
Easiest way to understand this is to cool down some water with a strong colouring (eg potassium permanganate) in it and pour it into a glass of hot water. The cold water will sink immediately (some will be stirred by currents in the water and cause slight clouding) but eventually the water will have an equal shade to it as atomic forces take over and molecules collide.
Air is better at this because air is much more compressable (water is theoretically incompressible but there's still a slight loss in atomic spacing as you cool or compress it) so cool air will sink better.
Physical forces (such as air currents or currents in a liquid) are almost always going to be stronger than the force of atomic excitation due to heat and the need for equilibrium.
Quite seasonal. There's something remarkably pleasant about putting on some very dry, warm boots in the morning when it is cold and wet out. Reminds me of drying boots by the wood stove after a day of sledding.
Sorry but if you needed to dry your boots after sledding then you were using the wrong boots. Proper sledding boots don't get wet at all and I would know because I'm from Australia and it snows literally everywhere, all the time here.
@@looksirdroids9134 as someone from Canada this Australian guy knows wayy more about the cold and snow than I ever could.
@@bok.. LOL 😆
Not seasonal. These are gold anywhere you might end the day in wet boots.
@@looksirdroids9134 I guess it must be nice when your feet don't sweat inside your hermetically sealed boots, and you can end the day with perfectly dry tootsies! 🤦😜🤷
I made my own surf boot and glove dryer with a computer fan and some plumbing parts. Getting air moving inside the boots works very well to dry them in a hurry, even without a heating element. This is an interesting concept using a heating element.
Ditto, but using milk cartons... it works and I've never got round to upgrading them. But "plumbing parts, you got plumbing parts? In my day we taped together tubs out o' milk cartons"...
Yes, also made 2 but without a base. Just about 30 cm pvc tube mounted on 12 volt 4x4 cm computer fans, running on a old Ericsson 7 volt smartphone charger to decrease the noise.
Heat is not necessary. Even the inside of surf boots are dry the next morning.
(I now realise the one from Clive has no fan? )
I was about to say something similar. In my experience, moving air works better at drying things than heat. And it's more efficient. If you had two 12V 150mA fans in there, that'd be 3.6W. Let's say 5W in total to account for losses in the power supply. Let it run over night (8h), and with current electricity prices (at least in my neck of the woods), the heater would cost about 13 cents per set of dried boots, while the fan would come in at 1.6 cent.
EDIT: Mileage may vary in very humid environments, where you need to the heat the air so it can absorb more water. But even then, adding a fan might drastically shorten the required runtime, thus reducing the total cost of operation. If you had heater + fan (45W), but it only had to run for 4-6h instead of 8h to dry the boots, it would still save money.
Mine got fan and heaters, the boots are dry within 40 minutes.
Simple straight forward design , very effective , and , very little to go wrong .
Years ago I made something similar , no heat , just forced air , from a couple of old cooling fans from and old piece of electronic gear , and some plastic electrical conduit , a plastic electrical box , an old vacuum cleaner cord , and a plate of steel for ballast .
It worked for over a decade until my dog decided it was a chew toy .
At least he didn't chew on the power cord ..
Man oh man, I feel a DIY project coming on! A couple of PVC tubes, 3D printed base, a boot/shoe mount, small PC fan & a PTC module!
Consider that since heat rises, the fan may be unnecessary. Key is having room for flow, notice the ribs on the outside of the tubes to reduce contact. Low wattage lamps may be sufficient, like 7 Watt night lamp.
@@jaylittleton1 Heat wasting lamps are becoming rare, better stay with actual power resistors chosen to do 20W per boot.
For the base, use something simple like a plastic box or block if wood, no need to get a 3D printer.
i'd just use a narrow pear shaped lightbulb as a heat source. mount the sockets one a piece of scrap wood place your boots over and voila.
@@Boemel Why a bulb? Resistors are more available and more efficient at what they are doing.
I don't see any point of using a lightbulb.
@@tpat90 , a UV bulb ( incandescent type) would also kill mold and mildew. Otherwise, yes, resistors would seem to be more efficient and much easier to obtain. I haven't seen an incandescent UV bulb in decades.....UV also can damage plastic, rubber and adhesives.
All convection, no noise.
2x700Ω in series, 1400Ω, so if your mains voltage is 240V, the power draw will be 41W per whole device and 20.5W per resistor which is within spec. Pretty nice.
I'd expect a thermal fuse or a thermostat on that kind of a device.
I think it relies on the low power spread across two sections to limit the hazard of blocked air paths.
This product has got to be the simplest product that is actually functional & not a scam that you have had on your channel Clive. It is the simplest functional product I have seen on your channel at least. If you had reverse engineered the circuit then we would have known you were well & truly board when on the night 😁😁
My PEET boot drier has been on plugged in for 20 years and always has plenty of ‘customers’ to dry, freshen up. It does a great job with it gentle convection heating that the shoes, boots or gloves don’t shrink and most importantly don’t stink:)
@@Reprint001 Ironically, running your a/c hard for an afternoon uses more power.
@@nobodynoone2500 Not that long ago a medium output general purpose housebold light bulb used more power than this thing.
Wait - no schematic? Damn - I was so excited to finally see a schematic that even I would understand and be able to use. :-D
"That's all there is. Nothing to mod. Nothing to reverse-engineer. Nothing to really go wrong. Now let's take the plastic pipes and glue them to random stuff!"
Interesting, the version i have here in Canada is a 4 holer with a fan that drives the heat into the boots. Very nice for drying out boots, especially when the wood stove isnt going!
That's a really cool and simple device. Nice. Thanks Big Clive!
I have one of those boot dryers and in the winter time, it's the best thing in the world. Plus when you put your boots on in the morning, they're nice and warm!
I use one of these to also dry my running shoes, really helps extend the life and greatly reduces the awful odors.
Same here. My running shoes live on a Peet dryer except when running, and they have no smell at all. It completely solved that problem.
Love the sorta passive drying these do, usually pretty safe for leather.
Apart from drying wet boots, it’s great for daily driver shoes and gets out yesterday’s foot moisture.
I've got two 40mm PC fans (12V running on 5v) that I drop into each boot vaguely pointing at the toes and that gets the job done overnight by just circulating the air about a bit.
The one I have is also a 4 post, two for boots and two for gloves. It also has a fan and a timer. Does a good job getting boots and gloves dry.
does it go ching when finished ?
I'm not giving up my peet boot dryer for anything, but I do wish it had an on /off switch and power indicator light.
You never know it's on till it's warm and to turn it on you just plug it in.
Surprisingly it seems a lot of people here in the US have never even heard of the Peet boot dryer, I discovered the peet about 2 years ago and couldn't imagine being without it.
I feel bad for anybody in a country where the peet boot dryer is hard to come by.
Beyond wet boots they are good to just put your boots on any time you take them off in the cold months.
My boots can really stink of sweaty feet after a day of work, but I put them on the peet dryer and the next morning my boots just smell like leather.
Use a dryer like this every time you take your boots off and they will never smell like feet.
I've had my Peet dryer for years, and they are simple yet effective. You wouldn't think it would do much, but they are amazing. I would think that the UK would have them in spades, what with the damp environment. It's nice to dry the inside of your shoes and boots, even in the summer. Sweat leads to funky odors!!
Awesome! Now I know what I want for Christmas. I guess I’ll need to buy boots too.
I've had this exact one plugged in and uses everyday for 6 years now. Keeps my boots from stinking and keeps them dry. Great quality for a noiseless, cheap dryer
Some models can dry several pairs at a time. You can also get gas-powered boot driers. In cold wet rainforest work nothing beats putting on warm dry boots in the morning.
I have a Peet..110 volt (120).. Been plugged in for 9 years.. Works flawless. Peace Rolfie (Ralph)
Looking at my Peet boot dryer right now. It's that time of year again to have this essential bit of farm kit at the ready.
Have a double Peet dryer... I alternate between 2 pairs of boots for work. Always bone dry, never a smell issue, and cozy warm start to the day in the winter. Gotta love it!
I took one of these apart and use the resistors to make a mug warmer
Now I'm wondering if someone took apart a mug warmer to dry shoes/boots :)
Peet? Never heard of that. But many homes in North America are heated with forced air furnaces and we used to just stand our boots upside down on a register in the floor to do the same thing. Then ~ 80s/90s a manufacturer came up with the idea of the stand to go over the register and hold the boots and mitts, then came the design with a self contained fan.
My roommate has this and for a while I was only riding my motorcycle as my only means of transport. Well, one rainy Californian day and my armored boots were soaked. He let me borrow this and by the next morning my boots were not only completely dry, they were toasty warm for my next trip in to work.
Very informative teardown of convective boot dryer, thanks! Gives me a bit of confidence it's safe. I'm going to get a Maxxdry variant of this on sale in Canada and see how if it's similar build.
Interesting video Clive! Funnily enough I just gave my parents one their 20+ year old Peet boot dryers back after purchasing my own. I had assumed mine would be the same as theirs (except that they're black plastic now as opposed to white) as it seemed such a simple device that the design would stand the test of time. I know specifically that theirs have metal coiled heating elements though and I figured mine was the same until watching this video, and sure enough, I just checked, and my Peet brand dryer has the same ceramic resistors.
Come to think of it though, theirs do have some visible scorch marks on the white plastic where it has overheated over the years. Maybe that's the reason for the design change and color change.
The Peet shoe dryer I have here in the US uses Nichrome wire on a holder instead of ceramic resistors. It doesn't get hot enough to make the wire glow like an electric heating element but it gets just warm enough to create a convection of warm air up the tubes. I would guess they switched to ceramic resistors since they are cheap and easy to source and can be easily adapted to the use.
The modern Peet dryers are exactly the same as Clive's except the plastic shroud under it is bonded to the plastic body. I am not happy with the quality control though. Mother has one where one of the pipes was formed into a slight oval and has a stress crack. I had to literally break it to get the boot plastic piece to fit on.
My mother's hairdryer also doubles up as a boot dryer. 10 minutes each on low heat and it's back in the drawer before she even notices!
I heared: What Americans would call a Peed Butt Dryer
and I saw a thing with 2 rods - to sit on?
... and you just made my evenig
thank you
Nice gentle drying, no scorched leather.
Very effective at drying boots. They have a couple of added bonuses, not mentioned by Clive, the boots are just slightly warm in the morning, and one doesn't have the "joy" of pulling soggy newspaper out before putting ones boots on only to discover that the soggy paper was symptomatic of the boots still being damp.....
i liked the dark gray bench surface.
"quite a neat thing" High praise indeed!
50 years ago we did something similar to dry our hunting boots. Just a squirrel cage fan and short piece of hose. No heat needed and were dry by morning.
Have had one of these for years, used to do dredge work, so would generally come home with fully soaked boots and it's never failed to dry and warm them, given a full night for it. Will also throw my boots/shoes on overnight when the forecast is darn cold to have nice warm shoes right before I've got to go.
I remember when I was a wee lad. My grandfather sticking a couple of things that had power cords on them in his boots and plugging them in the wall. Had not thought about this in many years. I suspect now what those were was a couple of small light bulbs on some lamp cord. He left the boots up right and just poked these things down in there and plugged them in. He was kind of a handy guy that way.
That’s what I use. A C6 night light in a piece of pvc pipe. I have mine upside down though.
I made a boot drier from a plastic box, a couple of bits of flexible conduit long enough tio reach the toes of the boots, and an old PC fan plugged into a bench power supply. No heat, but the forced air could gently dry a pair of boots over a shift ready to get soaked again on the ride home.
The one I have has a blower like a hair dryer with a timer in the middle instead of the resistors in each side. You can use it with air only or with heated air. Was sold by harbor freight years ago. They are also nice for fleece lined slippers, dries out and warms them...
At 1:47, "cobbling something together". :-) He's here all week!
Never seen this type before, I just remember from my youth the squared box on the wall with four corrugated plastic tubes coming down to dry 2 pairs of shoes, and it made quite a bit of noise. Everyone had them in the 90s, back when kids used to go out regardless of weather conditions.
What is this "go out" that you speak of? lol
I wager relative humidity has a role to play with how quickly it can dry boots. I'd love to get one of these for my boots but in summer it gets quite humid here.
They take longer when humid, but still work pretty well. I'd rather a slightly damp warm boot than a cold wet one any day.
I wonder how well a blower fed from a little dehumidifier would work for your case
Scrolling through YT recommendations below this video. YT recommends I check out the "product in this video" and helpfully links to the actual Peet boot dryer.
These are ok in the winter, but I use a fan forced model from Kendal year round that does great. It mounts to the wall, hoses go down into the boots to blow warmed air through, and it works in about a half hour. When I had a Peet dryer, the dogs would knock it over, so I'd often get up to find cold damp boots, and more than once a melted dryer.
never seen a PEET melt, but they do knock over easy with heavy boots loaded on top!
I've had one of these for years, but mine doesn't have a switch. Every night when I got home, my boots went on it to dry out whatever had soaked them through. Poor boot dryer had to get moved into our mudroom the night I came home with my boots dripping diesel fuel! I rather liked the smell of diesel, my better half did not agree! 😆 Oddly, it recently got unplugged, and I was questioned as to why it didn't dry a pair of slippers... 🤔
Nice simple design.
I splurged one year and bought a "MAXXdry" has four pillars two for boots and two for a pair of gloves or if you bought the accessorie ones that slip over you can do two pair of boots, 230 watts, hi low and fan only and a 3hr timer, took it to bits as we do, small cage blower and a small PTC ceramic heater module, resetting thermal safety, very well made, got it over five years ago works like a dream
I love my PEET boot warmer. That does look quite similar.
If you live where it gets cold or snows, you should own one.
Back in the day when hair dryers had hoses and a bag for over your head, I discovered it was perfect for drying boots and gloves
Nice video
I am in USA
20+ years ago I bought a PEET but didn't like the slow drying of my boots
I also wanted it to be able to dry my waders after fishing or hunting
So I made my own out of 2 small electric heat elements and used 2 computer fans to blow the warm air
I used 3" PVC pipe and fittings , then used reducing couplings to 2"
I added a 8 hour timer to the power supply and a 140 F thermal switch
I felt the thermal switch would insure nothing would catch fire
I made it 4 1/2 feet tall so I could dry waders
I now also have a shorter one for boots
Cheap to make and last areal long time
I love mine… BTW, US data: 120 vac, 36 watts. Cold resistance is 368 ohms. Maybe they all use the same resistors. Considering the British / EU ones are wired in series and maybe the North American ones might be wired in parallel. (I didn’t want to break the heat-staked pins on the cover to pull things apart). They also work as glove dryers / warmers. Start the morning with warm hands when you have to go out and scrape ice off your windshield.
Glove dryer, excellent idea - thanks.
One could make one of these using two 12V 2.5" computer fans, mounted at the base of two PVC pipes. Cut the tops off at 15° angles. Hot glue a few painter's mixing sticks across the top holes (trimmed down to the size of a small foot, flat over the holes). Then drill a ton of small holes into the top 3" of the pipes. Secure the base of the pipes onto a DIY box frame made of 2x4s, and single sheet .25" hobby/craft "plywood."
Add an on/off switch. A fuse per fan, and a cig lighter plug adapter, or just two gator clips. You could use them overnight in a vehicle when camping/hunting/fishing. Bring a spare 12V marine battery. 👍
I have this same model here in America and it works really good, I never opened it to see how it worked.
I've got a couple of the Dryguy travel dry dx, (no affiliation,) great if you need to dry out ski boots overnight.
simple and it works👍 I like that!
I've got one of these things I bought here in the US it's actually the next model up it has a fan built in I think it cost like $50 but they actually do work during the winter time when I have to work in the rain this thing comes in handy to dry my boots off like you said in the video it usually works best if you just put them on overnight but the one with the fan does dry a lot faster
When my boots got wet when I was a kid, they'd tell you to grab two bread bags. Kept your socks dry.
good trick but your shoes are still wet and cold.
My father has a Peet that has run nearly 24/7 for over 20 years. Mine has been going for 2 years, so far.
I would love to see if there is any difference between the off-brand and the Peet. Aside from the construction.
i might have to buy one since 90% of jobs i do end up with me having wet boots so to counter this i've been using 5 pairs of boots and just hotswapping them when one is too wet to use
I never cracked one open, but it looked like a resistor peaking down into two that I own. I use these for when I occasionally toss a pair of shoes(s) into the washing machine, this dries them really well afterwards (overnight to a day depending on the shoe). Doesn’t overheat the glue yet still dries fairly well.
I decided to take a quick resistance measurement of the two that I own, I’m in the States by the way, so they run on 120v where I am. One is branded Red Wing Shoes PEET Dryer, and it measures 367 ohm at the mains two prong plug. The other is a MAXX DRY SD and it measures 499 ohm at the mains two prong plug. Peaking down inside through the top, they are both made the same as in the video, resistor, and thin metal shield. This was measured with an old Fluke 23 Series II. Sadly I don’t feel up to taking them apart to inspect the wiring orientation or exact resistor values, but thought a quick resistance measurement would be easy enough. 😅
@BigClive now you can do the hot shoe shuffle 🤣🤣 much love from swan hill australia
Bet that is not the first time you said that....and within the first 7 seconds of the video...🤣. Thanks for the video Clive always appreciated and enjoyed
I happen to have access to two hair dryers and they're great boot dryers, just stick em in, make sure they've got airflow, and turn them on the lowest heat setting and let em chooch for a few hours and then your boots are dry and cozy 😆
It is a lot safer than the one I got off Amazon! It goes under different mames but they are all the same thing. They fold up and the little legs extend out for your shoes. Inside, itt had a mini bar heater (with a questionable shroud from the plastic) and a fan. The fan was controlled by a bi-metalic strip to 'regulate' the temperature. It packed-up after about a day becase the motor for the fan burned out. I would certainly not leave that on overnight and sent it straight back! Thanks for the teardown. These look much better!
I have one that's the same minus the shoe holder arms. It works far faster than you would imagine.
I could certainly use with with the recent weather, Looks like slightly damp boots for me tomorrow instead 😅
To hack the British model for use in the 125 V USA grid is very simple: cut the wire between both resistors and set them in parallel. But don't forget to label the new voltage outside!
Wondering if the US units actually have lower resistors or if they just have the same value but in parallel instead of in series.
I think they are still wired in series.
@@bigclivedotcom Then the resistors wouls be 350R each, or they would simply put the 2 700R units in parallel, as in any case they will have the same power dissipation, but using the same resistor value makes it easy to vary the volume per voltage market fast, just tell the staff which one to assemble. Get it wrong and you will have some UK units with ultra fast dry with smoke, or US units with slow dry.
The Peet I have has two 180R resisters in series (360ohm, 36W at a nominal 120VAC)
what a wonderful 'tool' ive never seen before, my boots need this, but i think it should have a humidity sensor where the cold boot air enters the heater chamber so it can auto shut off when 'dry' or after 3 hours. emm, use an esp8266 so i can ask 'she who shall not be named' if my boots are dry.... you know, just because we can....
I love these things, had one for many years. Don't remember if mine has a heat shield inside like that or not, do know that the white plastic of mine is mildly discolored where the resistors sit, so I suspect that is a cheaper version with no heat shielding in the tube.
Keep the tubes and get an old fashioned hair dryer. The kind with a flexible hose and hair net. Use some PVC pipe to pipe the warm air into the boots
I built one in the 80s when I made snow at a ski hill.
Sometimes simple solutions are best
Sometimes!
I have never heard of this before and I have lived in parts of america where you only wear boots daily such as montana. We always just put our boots facing down over the heater grate and let them sit there for hours or if we only had a fire ( as was the case with the log cabin) then we just sat them next to the fire or hung them by their strings over the mantle.
I've got one that I have yet to use
we get late winter flooding every couple years, but my muck boots handle it just fine
Everybody gangsta til the heater starts walkin
One that my old employer made was an oil filled tube heater with more tubes welded up and the tube heater put inside and the boots were put on the other tubes. Worked well but could dry out leather boots if left on it too long.
if your leather dries out it needs to be conditioned/oiled. Not likely the fault of the drier unless it's too hot.
I am using one of those (or an extremely similar one, also with ceramic resistors as heaters) after skiing, especially when skiing for more than one day in a row. In Europe every cheap hotel anywhere nearly close enough to a ski site got a ski room with boot driers, here on US east coast i haven't seen boot driers in any hotel, and ski rooms in general are rare to non-existent.
Careful, I have noticed most get hot enough to activate the thermal molding in the liners. Might be ok if you want a new fit each time, bnut best avoided. Normal liners do fine.
The American version will likely have the same resistors in parallel instead of in series
I guess, it won't be a different resistor value for 120 V use. They simply might be put in parallel instead of being in series.
Seen the 8 hole DM's with yellow laces in the thumbnail and I thought " uh oh Clive must have been a Skinhead back in the day.." 🤣
That's the manufacturer's box image. I could have had various boots on it.
A very good Monday morning to you all
I have used a regular hair dryer for completely soaked shoes, which worked well. Might be able to fashion something (with plastic pipes?) in pinch for boots if you don't need a dedicated device... (Never had to try, don't have boots that big. I'm a desk jockey, lol. )
I have a clone of this one. It doesn't do very well--takes forever to dry a pair of wet boots. Using some PVC pipe, I constructed my own version without heat, but using a squirrel-cage blower. Works very well and is much quicker. If I were to add heat, it might even be faster yet.
I imagine the aroma being spread throughout the whole house when putting my boots on this thing after a hard day's work and that's not a pleasant thought... It's the exact opposite of the air fresheners you've been tearing down in previous videos. Perhaps combining these type of devices together would be a good idea.
As it is just convection it should not spread a lot of smell. And once dry there should be NO smell.
The boric acid trick may remove the smell at source.
@@bigclivedotcom I was going to write "don't let this be an excuse to bring up boric acid"
In hindsight should have added that 🤣
Fruity
Worst smell that ever came out of my peet dryer was a hair that made its way into the heater element. Otherwise a quiet, benign, non-odorous little boot dryer.
Since the space shuttle program has stopped it is great to see that NASA is also developing other stuff.
I've seen those in Lidl recently. Dunno if it's the same brand- I'd like to see if it does what's advertised (I expect this winter to be hell here).
Beyond that... What I'm seeing is a funky jetpack prop for next halloween.😁
As a ( PROUD ) owner of several hairdryers ( found in the cardboard recycling bins ? ) and many , many vacuum cleaner tubes ( + a Variac™ ) , you have initiated my next project .... ( ? ) ...... DAVE™ ...
Keep in mind that hairdryers aren't really rated for long spells of operation.
@@bigclivedotcom Aha , yes , this is where the Variac™ comes in .... many hairdryers run at 30% voltage provide a GENTLE heat , with the motor gently spinning .... run at full power you might end up with a rock hard " crispy " ( or melted boot ! ! ) ... on further thought , I might just put a load of wirewound resistors up the VC tubes ( ? ) .. I will not be buying ( above ) product ... thanks for the idea ! .....
Would like to see your own DIY homemade version on a future video !
Awesome Video big clive
Ha, I thought that was a reference to ‘No feet Pete’ from the Sampson Boat Company. 😂
its a clever build they did there.
Remove clever for simple.😏😏
I remember as a kid, my mother placed my wet shoes on the radiator, which had hot water circulating inside from a boiler (steam heat).
I have a PEET Boot dryer for 11 years now. Because of your video I realized I have never unplugged it. My boots can be completely soaked inside and out and 8 hours later they will be completely dry. I wonder how much electricity it uses?I know it's not a lot. I use them every day when I get home my boots go straight on them and during the winter my wife kicks my boots off so she can put her boots on for the 4-5 days we actually might get snow.
If it's 40W then I'd estimate about $40 a year 24/7. Or less than a dollar a week.
I find a hairdrier to be working really well in any kind of "wet piece of clothing" situation.
Interestingly, the only boot dryers I've seen took advantage of the time of year when folks are using their furnace to heat their homes. Plastic doodad goes over a vent and you put gloves and boots on the end of it
I imagine this is more common in the US where central HVAC has largely taken popularity over radiators
Oh my, I wish I had one of those when I road my motorcycle to Greece, going through Italy my boots got totally soaked.
I think it would have needed upgrading with a couple more resistors though. 🙂