tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post114679986499746303..comments2023-11-02T07:25:45.884-05:00Comments on Mormanity - a blog for those interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: "Fewer Baptisms, Please" - The Impact of a New Building Design?Jeff Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1147043927626550212006-05-07T18:18:00.000-05:002006-05-07T18:18:00.000-05:00How strange - one of my sons just commented this w...How strange - one of my sons just commented this week on the new Tractor Supply Company store that opened out here recently, incredulous that there could be a whole store on that topic - and a very large one, perhaps 1/3 of a Wal-Mart Supercenter (that's 0.33 wms in volume). <BR/><BR/>A chill goes up my spine . . .Jeff Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1147037545809734532006-05-07T16:32:00.000-05:002006-05-07T16:32:00.000-05:00Here's a submersible water tank heater from Tracto...Here's a <A HREF="http://www.mytscstore.com/detail.asp?pcID=8&paID=1039&sonID=213&productID=466&zz=46202&x=3&y=6" REL="nofollow">submersible water tank heater from Tractor Supply Company.</A> Wonder if that might help.Bookslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077778974473538408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1146874251417458832006-05-05T19:10:00.000-05:002006-05-05T19:10:00.000-05:00I don't think that is a new problem. Most of the ...I don't think that is a new problem. Most of the buildings I baptized on my mission were problematic as far as filling the font. The best had instructions typewritten in the font area, though some could be funny (Turn the valve open all the way on hot, turn around touch your toes, turn it halfway back and then dance the hokey pokey before closing the thingamig.)<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the church should use the new technologies available with instant water heaters. They have a higher purchase price and can be expensive to run - but you get instant hot water that lasts and you don't pay to heat a container of water when you don't need it. <BR/><BR/>The worst baptism font I had was one that had yellow water (not just slightly - but almost lemonade looking) and had a slow leak that made it noisy in an awkward sort of way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1146871868846888562006-05-05T18:31:00.000-05:002006-05-05T18:31:00.000-05:00There is some loss, but the ratio of volume to sur...There is some loss, but the ratio of volume to surface area is higher in a large font than in a tub, so there is relatively less conductive and evaporative heat transfer to chill the entire mass.Jeff Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1146859210667093392006-05-05T15:00:00.000-05:002006-05-05T15:00:00.000-05:00Doesn't the water cool off in the font during the ...Doesn't the water cool off in the font during the 3-hour filling process?<BR/><BR/>If I had a tub of hot water, and came back three hours later to take a bath, it would be quite cold.Johnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773075683946846125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1146836534362682262006-05-05T08:42:00.000-05:002006-05-05T08:42:00.000-05:00Sparky, After the baptism, can the baptizer pull ...Sparky,<BR/> After the baptism, can the baptizer pull the drain plug with his bare toes or reach down and do it by hand?<BR/><BR/>(Note to previous comment: very hot or boiling water from the kitchen is not needed to make up for lack of water volume in the font, but to make up for the cold water in the font when it is filled too fast.)Bookslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077778974473538408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1146830120992694942006-05-05T06:55:00.000-05:002006-05-05T06:55:00.000-05:00One other interesting deal is the fact that you ca...One other interesting deal is the fact that you can't fill the font while there is a meeting in the RS room due to the faucet being so high and the sound of the water flowing into the font...not to mention the inability to pull the drain plug without a special hand crafted pole.Thomas Cliffordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976960367584669927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-1146803783618956022006-05-04T23:36:00.000-05:002006-05-04T23:36:00.000-05:00Jeff, in our chapel, a small footprint urban (rect...Jeff, in our chapel, a small footprint urban (rectangular as opposed to hexagonal) chapel, the kitchen has a water heater separate from the heater that the bathrooms/font uses.<BR/><BR/>It's cumbersome, but if you need to fill faster than 3 hours, one can use pitchers and large pots to carry hot water from the kitchen to the font. <BR/><BR/>We've even used the stove to boil water for baptism emergencies where the font wasn't filled soon enough, or was filled too soon, or the font spigot was opened faster than the water heater could keep up.<BR/><BR/>One piece of advice you want to make sure gets handed down to new ward mission leaders and new missionaries is DO NOT FILL THE FONT TOO FAST, because as you noted, the bathroom/font water heater can't keep up if water passes through it too quickly. <BR/><BR/>That knowledge often doesn't get passed on, and a convert and missionary can get an icy experience when the font is filled too fast.<BR/><BR/>PS: when the day comes when Appleton baptizes people by the hundreds, I guess you could always rent out the YMCA pool and locker rooms.Bookslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077778974473538408noreply@blogger.com