Date:         Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:05:48 -0500
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Coleman Plat Cat Heater Report
Comments: To: joe winter <fuyusan@HOTMAIL.COM>

I think some folks who have SEEN a Catalytic heater are confusing these
with an ol'-timey parabolic dish heater. The cat looks a little like in
that they are both round, about 8" in diameter, and both use a propane
bottle. They are very different in they way they burn the gas, and the
amount of CO and un-burnt fuel they release.

While I'm not Dr. Propane or anything, I'm positive these small bottle-top
Catalytic heaters weren't available (at least on the K-Mart consumer level)
until a year-or-so ago. My folks have old hissing parabolic heaters, too.
They aren't catalytic heaters, though.

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
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-----Original Message-----
From:   joe winter [SMTP:fuyusan@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent:   Saturday, January 08, 2000 1:54 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: Coleman Plat Cat Heater Report

My parents had one that they used in their new 68 VW Bus to avoid putting
in
a gas heater.  It didn't work very well for what they were trying to
accomplish, so they had to break down and fork over the bucks for the real
thing.  The bus is long gone, but I still have the heater.

Joe 87 GL Weekender


>From: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
>Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Coleman Plat Cat Heater Report
>Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 01:30:32 -0500
>
>At 21:42 1/7/00 , Davidson wrote:
>>I don't believe the catalytic heater had been invented twenty years ago.
>>One of the reasons it was invented is because people were dying in the
>>tents and campers from the CO that non-catalytic heaters put out. If your
>>old heater is not
>
>Used one when I was sixteen.  That would be...uh...thirty-three years ago
>approx.
>
>d
>David Beierl - Providence, RI
>  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>'85 GL "Poor Relation"

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