Article 1050463 of alt.home.repair: Path: news.misty.com!not-for-mail From: nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu Newsgroups: alt.home.repair Subject: Re: Repairing BB Hole in Window Date: 8 Oct 2008 06:48:04 -0400 Organization: Villanova University Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: acadia.ece.villanova.edu X-Trace: max.inside.misty.com 1223462886 5669 153.104.44.130 (8 Oct 2008 10:48:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@misty.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Xref: news.misty.com alt.home.repair:1050463 Kenneth wrote: >I might try aiming some sort of space heater at the glass >for a while before doing the repair. > >Even heating it slightly would lower the level of humidity >between the panes, and that would, in turn, lower the >temperature at which you would see condensation. Heating air lowers the RH but doesn't change the absolute moisture content, so the air would have the same dew point after it cooled. We might dry the air by running a tube from a dessicant box to the hole and cycling the space heater every half hour for a few hours to pump air out and back into the window cavity. Nick