2008-12-15, 23:29 | Link #942 |
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Anyone who goes in Tokyo daily here? I'm looking for custom eyeglasses makers.
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2008-12-16, 23:50 | Link #944 |
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In Nagano, perhaps, where access to water is diffucult? Otherwise, no. Living in Kobe for 8 months of the year, I don't think so. We take showers to start with. You want to reuse the water? How? Pump it back into the water pipe??
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2008-12-17, 01:59 | Link #947 | |
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Watch just about any anime with a trip to a public bath. Roughly the same thing happens in many homes -- just on a very small individual scale. The tub is for soaking, not bathing/cleaning. Refilling a tub of relatively clean water is just a ridiculous waste of water.
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2008-12-17, 03:32 | Link #951 | |
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2008-12-17, 04:21 | Link #953 |
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Japanese bathtubs that I've used (or at least the ones designed for a family rather than an individual) have a special mechanism that reheats the water if need be after it's cooled off. Dunno what they did before such technical innovations became commonplace, though.
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2008-12-17, 04:33 | Link #954 | |
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2008-12-17, 04:34 | Link #955 |
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not really, the tub has always been designed from who knows when so the water can be re-heated.
The system is quite simple you have a sub-section connected to the main tub. The sub section is a mini boiler where heat is applied for the water to be heated up. The warm water flows into the main tub and you'll always have a warm tub as long as you turn on the heat. Heat source of the past was wood later to be replaced by natural gas. By the way a normal house equiped with their own bath tub only got popularized in the late 60's and early 70's before that it was usually the public bath house. |
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2008-12-17, 04:43 | Link #957 | |
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The tub was stationary with it's own dedicated stove. There were some interesting offshots like the Goemon buro. Which is nothing more than a overgrown pot. This is a Goemon buro Last edited by Tri-ring; 2008-12-17 at 05:02. Reason: added caption for easier understanding |
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2008-12-17, 04:53 | Link #959 |
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This is a typical present day bath tub system.
Notice the small box installed on the otherside of the wall. That is the boiler and water flows freely between the main tub and boiler through the connecting tubes. This is the basic design of Japanese bath tubs for homes. |
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