My personal experience back around 1985, I was reading the operation manual for a vintage Forney tombstone and came to a page about thawing underground water pipes. I didn't have any frozen pipes at the time as it was summer, but that next winter my sister in law called me and said her water pipe from the well house was frozen, could I help?( my older brother was roughneck out in the north sea), and I remembered the welder deal so I retrieved the manual and read it again. The manual gave an example of how to attach the cables and then explained that heat was not how the ice was affected rather it was vibration that would crack the ice and that would allow liquid to move through to open the pipe. This was all news to me but no matter I loaded up the welder and some long extension cables and headed out to rural Southmayd Tx. With ice on the ground I stretched out the cables over a 100 ft from pump house to an outside hose bib,, and then powered that baby up. The welder complained but stood strong, groaning and fretfull, the sis n law said " I hope the house doesn't burn down" (Yea that helps x@%* sis) but I was checking for undo heat rise at several places and no real heat was found. 10 minutes nothing changing,15 minutes maybe this won't work...20 minutes ,,was that a drip?? uh look another drip! then a dribble and then success!! The water was not warm, the pipe was not warm the welder lived another few years. Good Times
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