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Subject: Garage heat replies
From: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@pangea.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:47:02 -0600charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi all,  Terrick here.

Wow, what a list of suggestions.  I should have guessed that garage working
was a favorite winter hobby for TR Listers etc.

The good news is that I did get my 12,000 btu kerosene heater running
properly and it does get the place warm.  Adding a 1500w cube heater helps
further.  FYI,  the heat loss seems to be about 4 deg/hr with a temp.
differential of 60 deg.  The 1500 w heater kept the garage above freezing
overnight.  This means the tools are not frozen and neither is the car.

The best suggestion came from Dave Massey who suggested a discarded clothes
dryer!  Fantastic idea, if only I had the room.  But it jives with the btu's
I'll need and I suspect a 4800w construction heater (Thanks Trevor B) will
do the job.  Gas would be nice but pricey and not warranted in such a small
space.

A side note to the "unvented 100,000 btu unit story" (author unknown)...
years ago I painted my ice racer in an UNHEATED double garage with the same
kerosine heater and a 300,000 btu propane unit.  It was about -35 and
nothing would  warm that place up.  While I didn't pass out, apparently I
didn;t look so hot and had no strength or coordination.  Yup CO poisoning.
Since that day I have had a problem with kerosene heaters, since it was the
lingering smell of diesel being burnt (smells tha same anyway) that I still
to this day cannot stand......geez, wonder why I don;t drive a turbodiesel
car?  I thought it was performance related!

Thanks all

Dave T


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