How to get a knife out of a space heater

That’s right, how to get a knife out of a space heater.  Add this to the list of things I never thought I’d have to do until I became a parent.

Me: “Leah, where did the plastic knife go?”

Leah: “I don’t know Mommy, it’s gone!”

Great.  Right into the vent holes of the space heater we keep in Kate’s nursery.  Geez!  How do you even discipline for that?

Me: “We don’t put things in there!  Promise me you’ll never drop another knife into the space heater again!”

Leah: “Okay Mommy!  I promise!”

I unplugged the heater and waited until nap time to take it apart.  Luckily, our Pelonis space heater has lots of screws on the bottom, so I just removed two of them:

The front seemed to be attached at the other end by something I couldn’t take apart, so it only pulled open a little bit:

Sure enough, there was the plastic knife:

Coincidentally I thought I might have to use a knife to take it out, but I decided to go with kitchen tongs instead:

I didn’t have much space to work with:

At this point I dropped the plastic knife back into the heater while taking a photo and had to dig it out a second time.  Darn blog!

I screwed the heater back together:

And the knife was successfully extracted from the Pelonis space heater.

I plugged it back in right away and it started making popping noises.  My husband said I was supposed to wait awhile for the oil inside of it to settle, since I had it on its side.  I didn’t know there was oil in there, but okay, lesson learned.

I waited a couple hours and plugged it back in and it didn’t light anything on fire.  So I’m going to consider that a job well done.

Source : onelittleproject.com
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