There's a tiny room in my garage that has a stove and a tall cylindrical hot water reservoir, with pipes running across the space. It is always hot and dry no matter how cold outside is even though an opening leads to air outside.

Since this tiny room is constantly warm~hot, I've used this room to dry rags, dry oiled stocks, and to speed up the setting of bedding compounds, silicone, pretty much everything heat can help speeding up has been placed inside.

The room has no lighting, the problem is easily solved by installing a big button-like lamp that's sold on TV shopping channels(a big, white plastic disk that shaped like a UFO and powered by battery, push to turn it on, push again to turn it off).

Now that the tiny room is handier than ever, I am thinking of building a cabinet for slow-rust blueing using silicone and transparent acrylic boards. Do I still need to wire a heat source into the cabinet or the heat in the room alone is enough?

What other uses have you put your boiler room into?

Pyrotek--

The room might work well for rust blue but it's not good for stock finish......Air flow is MUCH more important than heat in that application.

Oily rags in a boiler room are bad news. They can spontaneously catch fire.

H. C.

You may not want to have flammable soaked rags near the boiler, specially if soaked with kerosene, gasoline and the like. Engine oil burns but it is not too flammable.

I have such a room in my house, and there is where I have the clothes washer and dryer. The boiler is a couple of feet from the washer, and a water softener, and a water tank are across from the boiler and washer.

Since the temperature in this room is around 80-90 degrees during the winter and summer months, sometime ago I placed bread dough in a ceramic bowl (covered with a cotton cloth) on top of the washer or dryer to let it raise. It worked to perfection, and my wife decided to clean the room once per week. I am not suggesting you clean that room and get rid of all those chemicals, then let you wife own the room, but it works for me. My wife keeps the room very clean, I eat great bread, and I don't have to clean it

Gentlemen,

I meant I dry rags soaked in water after I washed it, I let solvent/oil soaked rags dry by laying it flat somewhere near a sink.

Given your handle, what did you expect?

You don't live close to me, do you Pyro? - Dan

a light bulb will generate heat inside the box also,I have an old refridgerator with my welding rods in it that has a 60 watt bulb inside it and I dont know the exact temperture inside but when I grab a handful of rods there nice and toastey,also as someone else stated to much heat may not be good for stock work hope this helps.