Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:11:11 -0700
Reply-To: harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: Custom Cat Heaters
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We have used our plat cat for many, many years in
various westies.
I think definitely the best place for the plat cat is behind the
front passenger seat. I use the larger plat cat model.
One can still turn the seat around if you install the plat cat the
way I did. The top of the plat cat is the same height as the seat
bottom. So it's not too much of an inconvenience.
We still use the front passenger seat facing the rear or the
towards the aisle, even with the heater going.
The way I did it is that I rerouted the exhaust, which
usually exits from the top, to exit from the right side instead.
(right side when facing the heater).
That was the only alteration I did to the heater to make it
fit the westy. To do that you have to take the heater apart,
and make a new opening for the vent tube on the right
side of the heater housing.
(It looks the pictures of the plat cat heater in my camper
disappeared from Jim's wetwestie website.)
About the space for the portapotti, we usually keep it
opposite the heater, when we're driving, strapped against
the rear bench.
When we're camping, the portapotti sorts of ends up moving
around the tight floor space. And stows between the front seats,
which is a very tight fit, but I got ours to fit that narrow space.
It is a challenge to live in the small space of a westy
with 2 people. But the last thing I would want to give up is
the plat cat vented heater, at least up here in the great outdoors
of the Pacific Northwest. Just my 2 cents.
Harald
'90 westy
Bill wrote:
> For a radiant heater like the Plat Cat, I think the best location is
either
> right behind the passenger seat.. mounted on the aft side of the starter
> battery compartment or between the seats.. (Harald used to have some good
> photos of his installation behind the passenger seat, but they don't seem
to
> be at the old web address any more.)
>
> These locations point the heat to where you will likely be.. on the rear
> bench seat.
>
> Problem with behind the passenger seat is makes it so the passenger seat
> cannot be used facing aft.
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