[TR] Aftermarket Heater for TR3?

[Karl Vacek]

That might be OK for demisting, but I really doubt it'd do much to warm even 
a well-sealed car let alone a drafty TR.  Remember you're only working with 
12 volts and consider the power necessary to make any meaningful amount of 
heat.  A little 1,500-watt electric room heater will warm a parked car 
pretty well, but what can you get out of maybe 1/10 that wattage ??  There 
are lots of btu's coming out of even a small heater core like the Smiths or 
Arnolt ones.

It does happen to be on sale though - I just saw it in today's HF sale 
e-mail for $9.99

Karl



> If you have upgraded electricals:
> 12 Volt Rubberized Heater with Fan
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=96144
> I like the idea that it is portable and you can re-direct to the 
> windshield to defog.
>
> C
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek at ameritech.net>
> To: "William Brewer" <wsb1960tr3a at att.net>; "Triumphs" 
> <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [TR] Aftermarket Heater for TR3?
>
>
>> TSF130L had a round Smiths heater in it when I bought it as a 2-year-old 
>> car, in 1965.  I always thought it was original (??)
>>
>> The same ones are found in T-series MG's, not as factory installations 
>> but as common additions.
>>
>> Also available are the Arnolt heaters, a period accessory originally 
>> manufactured for S.H.Arnolt Company in Chicago, a large British car 
>> importer and accessory distributor in the late 1940's through early 
>> 1960's.  Moss currently sells (or at least recently sold) a reproduction 
>> of this heater - it's a steel box, roughly a cube.
>>
>> Both the original Smiths and Arnolt heaters show up on eBay occasionally, 
>> and I think there's a Moss repro on there right now.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>     So at Triumph-fest I was admiring Herman Van Der Akkers TR3 heater
>>> installation. He said he got it through JC Whitney. I went to 
>>> JCWhitney.com
>>> and they have no such thing. The only thing that they have that looks 
>>> like it
>>> would work is called "The Mojave Heater", which may or may not fit. Has 
>>> anyone
>>> got a "Mojave Heater" in their TR3?      Are there any aftermarket 
>>> heaters
>>> that you can make fit into a TR3?
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