Good idea, Jan! Spot on.
Actually, if you work it right you can use one of those extra-large Ideal
clamps to secure a metal clothes-dryer vent tube right around the back of
your generator and pipe it straight into the heater box.. this would serve
to not only collect all that nifty extra heat, but would also safely direct
the hot molten lead slinging off the armature right into the heater core to
automatically plug the inevitable leaks. Actually, I think I recall seeing
a similar fix in an early Rootes factory bulletin.
-Kevin
[Tongue still frimly implanted in cheek, for those of you noticing]
(s-i-g-h.. Now I just can't wait to see who takes *THIS* one seriously...)
----Original Message Follows----
From: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
To: "Kevin McLemore" <kmclemore@hotmail.com>, alpines@autox.team.net,
tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Re: Upgrading the Heater]
Date: 7 Dec 2001 11:38:06 EST
Actually this will work in even better in a generator equipped Sunbeam as
you be adding the heat of the generator burning up to any heat the pad will
produce!
Jan Eyerman
1959 Hillman Minx Series III DeLuxe equipped with an original Smith's
"Slight Breath of Heat" heater 1973 Hillman Avenger DL (equipped with a
heater that actually produces some heat)
"Kevin McLemore" <kmclemore@hotmail.com> wrote:
OK,guys (and gals!)...
Now, I don't post here very often - in fact I'm a consummate lurker - but
this time I simply MUST intervene. All this talk about ripping your dash
apart and sealing the un-sealable to in order to improve that wheezy old
heater... sigh... well, y'all have really surprised me. I mean, you have
your gawd-awful priced Books of Norman and access to all the Bunseam
information on the face of the earth, yet every one of you has overlooked
the *official* Sunbeam factory option... tisk, tisk.. (wagging finger):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=598910933&r=0&t=0
I expect to see bids on this to soon overtake those of the Cigar Lighter.
Kevin McLemore
(from in Ambler, Pennsylvania, with tongue firmly in cheek)
1967 Sunbeam Alpine V / 1949 Triumph Renown TDB/2000
B395015623
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