I have no idea why I started this thread. Everyone has heard it before. They might not have noticed exactly, but their stove is telling them something. I would guess that a heating stove would have a very limited vocabulary.
Lets get to the point. Metal expands. It gets bigger as it gets hotter. As metal cools down, it contracts. This might not amount to much in the way of heating stoves, but on a large metal structure like a bridge, this expansion and contraction can amount to inches even feet. Here is your engineering and physics degree.
I have noticed throughout the years of heating with a stove the pinging, popping, cracking of my stove as i build the first fire of the morning, and as the metal contracts as the fire dies down in the evening or night. The sound is from the expansion and contraction of the metal as its temperature raises or falls. If my stove didn't make this sound, or was built differently, I would think it would warp or crack.
Here is the meat and potatoes. The other night me and my wife were sitting on the couch watching netflix and eating a mushroom and swiss bacon cheeseburger when all of a sudden my stove started making the usual popping and cracking. It was a low tone unlike the first fire of the morning, which is high pitched and goes from low to high in frequency, but this time the pitch was from high to low. This sound was my stove cooling down.
My stove was telling me: I'm cooling down. I need another piece of wood. At that very moment I realized a human and a tool were communicating, much like how a pet would communicate to its owner - through their own language. I told myself this would be a great opportunity to communicate with the wife. I looked over at her and said, "Honey, the fire is going out, could you load a stick of wood in it this time"? She replied, "How did you know the fire was going out"?..... Well honey I have my ways.
Lets get to the point. Metal expands. It gets bigger as it gets hotter. As metal cools down, it contracts. This might not amount to much in the way of heating stoves, but on a large metal structure like a bridge, this expansion and contraction can amount to inches even feet. Here is your engineering and physics degree.
I have noticed throughout the years of heating with a stove the pinging, popping, cracking of my stove as i build the first fire of the morning, and as the metal contracts as the fire dies down in the evening or night. The sound is from the expansion and contraction of the metal as its temperature raises or falls. If my stove didn't make this sound, or was built differently, I would think it would warp or crack.
Here is the meat and potatoes. The other night me and my wife were sitting on the couch watching netflix and eating a mushroom and swiss bacon cheeseburger when all of a sudden my stove started making the usual popping and cracking. It was a low tone unlike the first fire of the morning, which is high pitched and goes from low to high in frequency, but this time the pitch was from high to low. This sound was my stove cooling down.
My stove was telling me: I'm cooling down. I need another piece of wood. At that very moment I realized a human and a tool were communicating, much like how a pet would communicate to its owner - through their own language. I told myself this would be a great opportunity to communicate with the wife. I looked over at her and said, "Honey, the fire is going out, could you load a stick of wood in it this time"? She replied, "How did you know the fire was going out"?..... Well honey I have my ways.
