[Shop-talk] 55k btu radiant kerosene heater?

[Ed Van Scoy]

It is a private airport, so I guess he has access to
small quantities..... Thanks for the answer.... I was
convinced he was (is) crazy.
Ed


--- Ron Schmittou <rs1121 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Pretty close to the same stuff - Odor will be a bit
> stronger.  Must be an
> awfully small airport - mot have it in the Big tanks
> - I have not heard of
> outdated fuel, but I guess it's possible - I have
> seen water or contaminated
> fuel.
> 
> Try it and see - it won't harm the heater.
> 
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> On Behalf Of
> Ed Van Scoy
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:47 PM
> To: Karl Vacek; Mark Andy; shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] 55k btu radiant kerosene
> heater?
> 
> I have the same model kerosene heater. Works great
> but
> I'm not happy with the fact that kerosene is $7 a
> gallon here (in bulk.....$10 for gallon cans at Home
> Depot) soooo.... I have a friend that claims he
> burns
> jet fuel in his. He lives next to an airport and
> says
> he buys "outdated" fuel cheap, and it works fine. I
> am
> leary of trying jet fuel, anybody had any experience
> with it in a heater???
> Ed
> 
> 
>  
> --- Karl Vacek <kvacek at ameritech.net> wrote:
> 
> > If you want to fix your existing heater,
> > Reddy-Heater is part of Desa - in 
> > Kentucky as I recall - and should have parts. 
> > They're set up for DIY'ers - 
> > decent tech support is available by phone and
> > they'll mail parts right out.
> > 
> > Karl
> > 
> > 
> > > So my forced air kerosene heater has finally
> > decided to stop working...
> > > For a couple years now I've kept the cover loose
> > so that I could slide it
> > > out of the way and spin the fan by hand to
> "loosen
> > it up" when it wouldn't
> > > start.  Now I can still do that, but the fan
> never
> > seems to really spin up
> > > to full speed and eventually kicks the breaker
> on
> > the unit (Reddy heater,
> > > 55k btu, if you have ideas on how to make it
> work.
> >  I can see the spark,
> > > so I know its not that).
> > >
> > > Anyway, I was looking at other options and ran
> > across this one at lowes:
> > >
> >
>
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=239878-57645-P
> T55SS&lpage=none
> > >
> > > Anyone know anything about this type of heater? 
> > The btu output is much
> > > higher than other radiant kerosene heaters I've
> > seen and the promise of
> > > less noise would be welcome...
> > >
> > > Googling ProTemp Sun-Stream got me nowwhere.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Mark
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