>Wow, I'm kinda surprised this isn't more widely known.

Me too ...

>I've seen people use incandescent bulb lamps under sinks
>in houses that were "closed up for winter" as poor-man's
>anti-pipe-freezing tools,
...

I new of a guy who lived in Fiji, who used a 15W pygmy lamp in the bottom of 
the cupboard where he stored his photographic equipment, to keep the 
equipment at a temperature where the humidity was lowered enough to keep 
fungi from growing on lenses, and generally limit the effects of the 
humidity on the rest of the gear. This was all around 40 years ago. 

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