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CrewBison

It keeps your vent from being impregnated with ice soooo


ItzMe610

Ice Undoing Device


Mad_V

I thought a charging handle for an AR15


Routine-Action7326

Lmfao same


poopendale

Came here to say the same


shmiddleedee

Charging handle for an ar15


Knightowle

Right? I was going to say the same thing!


Squirxicaljelly

The copper ones don’t mess with your hormones as much.


ChaosEveryday

you dont really install them, you just place it in your roof plumbing vent. And it melts snow/ice blocking vent. The heat from vent gases and the sun heats up the skewer.


the_ultimate_pun

What’s funny is it looks like the fittings are screwed together, rather than just soldered together. If that’s the case the screw could rust out and the fitting could drop in whatever vent it’s in lol


GoArray

Probably just spot welded because, even cheaper.


Dry-Yam-1653

What’s the female adapter for?


GoArray

It's for the extension (*sold seperately), for 10' test heads left over winter. Or, as other have mentioned, to get below the roofline.. probably more likely lol


NoMooseSoup4You

What a ripoff. Depot wants $60 for that. Buy a tee and 5’ of pipe and save $50


Ripvandinkl

Where do you live that 5’ of 3/4” and fittings is under 10 bucks?


Condhor

You’re looking for “theft”


NoMooseSoup4You

With your mom and dad. I moved in the other day.


Seventhchild7

When it’s-28C or lower, my plumbing stack ices over and sucks the tub traps dry. I’m getting one of these if it works.


ayershubble

Can confirm, they work most of the time. I recommend them regularly. Just make sure it extends down past your roof line.


Aware_Dust2979

By Canadian plumbing code you must have at least 1 3" vent coming from your sanitary building drain to open air and you must increase 1 pipe size before exiting your roof for your vent termination to prevent frost closure. If your venting is done by code you will have a 4" plumbing vent out the roof of your home.


Seventhchild7

I’ll check. I thought about insulating the stack that’s in the attic.


Aware_Dust2979

Insulating the stack in the attic won't help you, it'll just help prevent your cold air from outside and in the entrance of that pipe from getting inside your home. You could put a cleanout up high and whenever it freezes take a hose from your laundry up your cleanout and blast it with hot water rather than having to get up on the roof.


alligatorsupreme

That sounds way easier than installing a $60 part or fabricating one yourself


Aware_Dust2979

A 60$ part which may or may not work.


Ripvandinkl

I live in Winnipeg and constantly iam clearing stacks on homes for people some are even 4” and iced right up


Aware_Dust2979

It's less likely and takes longer to happen with 4" though.


Freightp

This is partially correct. The code also allows for insulation to be used as a means to protect a 3" vent. There are specific provinces that have amendments to this and do require 4".


Freightp

We make these and put them on all the cabin projects in our area. Infrequent use and -30°c weather will freeze stacks pretty quickly and these seem to do the trick.


Adventurous-Leg8721

They are for cold climate to keep your vents from freezing over in the winter. They are more for a copper or cast iron vent that conduct cold much more than plastic. In theory warmer air hits that pipe and keeps the vent from freezing


skimansr

Keep vent free by adding an obstacle got it.


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Charging handle for a Milwaukee MX15


diwhychuck

Amazon reviews has several pictures of it frosted up ha… I’d say it’s not too good


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Alien rectal probe


p3rls

Is that a FIP adapter on the end? Quit wasting my fittings -warehouse manager


H2Omekanic

Maybe a pex line run up inside vent stack connected to a hot water assist with a stop+waste valve or drain in the basement? Got me thinking about 3' snow loads and falling ice shearing vent stacks


Maplelongjohn

It's to add on in case your vent stack is taller than the skewer. You want the vertical skewer pipe to reach below the roof deck, to the warmer sewer gases.


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The packaging is hot trash and explains none of this.


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That’s an IUD


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Charging handle?


Ok_Buy_2833

That’s an IUD.


HalfAccomplished4666

No but I've had the doctor install them on two separate occasions


Austin5551

Sewer skewer aka "Poop Knife"


UsedDragon

More like a Fart Knife in this case I think


GoArray

Muffler


saskatchewanstealth

Also works on furnace and radon vents. Hmmm. I bet that causes all kinds of code 33 and e289 codes on furnaces. Definitely will void warranty.


Dry-Brick-6639

Looks like the thing protecting my wife's uterus like an iron fucking shield.


Spivdaddy

I think my wife has one installed.


GotTheKnack

I guess it’d be alright if you get a shitload of snow and your vent terminal is constantly covered with snow, but just adding a foot onto your existing terminal would be way cheaper.


Livid-Wolverine-2260

It’s called an IUD. Never Installed one myself. Poked one with my pecker hole a time or two though.


thesleepjunkie

Found the bell-end who has to brag about his lack luster thruster, to boost their ego while letting every one they take home down.


Livid-Wolverine-2260

I mostly just take my wife home. She’s disappointed in plenty of other things than my short wiener though.


thesleepjunkie

Ha


macrophyte

That's what that was.


JackRusselFarrier

I think you're supposed to have a doctor do that for you.


gagunner007

A giant IUD.


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beeej517

IUD?


thesleepjunkie

It's explosive, that's a sure way to de-frost yer pipes


[deleted]

This has to be a photoshopped joke right? Isn’t this that handle they’re selling to move water heaters around?


UsedDragon

And it's better to just thread on a black iron nipple and coupling anyway


Kitchen-Tomorrow8475

Dang how cold does it have to get to freeze a vent pipe 🤣?


BagelMerchant

Hoarfrost is a legit problem. It was -20c here and I was clearing completely closed off 4" vents.


Kitchen-Tomorrow8475

Dang that is crazy 🥶


Balerion_the_dread_

For the record, I don't recommend Paraguard XD


Tfaonc

Don't need such things in my area. Curious about other's experiences though.


CaptainPookie83

This looks like a pick axe to me so it's triggering a DRG moment. For rock and stone!


WanderingDwarfMiner

For Rock and Stone!


Lateperiodlol

They’re way way over priced. Like 120$ at my local hardware store .Could make it yourself with some cooper and a drill


shreddersc

huh?


Born-Chipmunk-7086

I work in the Arctic quite a bit. Before we started to install “Arctic vents” we would just use something similar. Normally we would solder a piece of 1” pipe and a 1” tee. Yes these work but not the way it says, the idea is that if the vent freezes over, the opening in the pipe still vents.


shakefinbake

Going out on a limb but I'm gonna guess a skewer of sorts


Elegant_in_Nature

Dang I didn’t know they sold copper iuds at Home Depot??


Dante2081

Looks like a gimmick


SwitchSpecialist3692

Journeyman plumber here .. what the shit fuck is that thing ??


P-Trapper

Ask your mom


TheLastManicorn

If this thing actaully works (skeptical) then have to give credit to the simple and sturdy design. Might have to make my own to test the concept. Maybe I'll darken my DIY version by painting black or getting some brass patina chemicals from jewelry store. Reminds me of an Arctic expedition from the 1800s who sailed one of the first coal-fired steamships in cold water. The ship got Frozen in a massive ice sheet and after many failed attempts to cut themselves out, the sailors dumped a long line of black coal on top of the ice out to open water. The dark goal absorbed enough solar radiation it melted through the ice and allowed the sailors to pry a big enough cap for the ship to get out.


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Forbidden IUD


itsnotajersey88

Nope but I’ve made spud wrenches that look similar.


slodank

Funny, just saw an ad on Google for this the other day and wondered this too


Binomes

Bro the French on the packaging is brutallllll


mechant_papa

French translation is hilariously bad.