You can't ask the guy that said it worked fine how he lit it, I take it. I'd go down to my local VFW and find an old Navy Boiler Tech. and buy him a beer. Prob'ly find out more than you ever wanted to know... Good luck, Robert '87 GL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:40 AM Subject: LVC shop heater
> so this winter i bought old oil furnace to heat the vanagon shop next > winter. this thing is really old but in good shape. its one of those old > stand alone units that people used to have in their living room and it > heated the whole house. it doesn't need any electricity to run there, was > a blower fan at some point but its designed to run with or without it. > without it it runs in convection mode. > > the guy that i bought if from had never run it but the owner before him > had used it to heat his garage and said it worked fine. i've tried > searching the net for information on this unit or a similar unit with no > luck. the thing that i really need to figure out is how one is supposed > to light the thing. the system layout is like this gravity tank to "carb" > to pipe that goes into a "pot" inside the heater. it almost looks like > you start a fire with some material in the pot and then turn the oil on. > the brand of heater is siegler if that makes any difference. > > well if anyone knows about these things or where i might be able to dig up > some information please contact me. > > jonathan |
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