Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:25:55 -0800
Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Air-Cooled heater modifications
In-Reply-To: <957285.36468.qm@web56411.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Sorry for being so vague.
What you understood me to say to say was" please
buy my
heater or kill yourself with Bob's briquet
heater."
Waht I really said was The BA-6 heater is the
factory solution to heating an air-cooled
Vanagon.
Or you can put a wood stove, or a briquet stove
that is made from TYPE2 aircleaner, an invention
of Bob Hoover's.
I'm not at all suggesting some put a barbecue
inside the Vanagon.
That should be a little more clear.
In case you did'nt know, Boston Bob wrote an
article on how to build a heater using a VW Bus
aircleaner housing.
It is safe as it vents the fumes out thru a stove
pipe.
You need to be a little tin-snips savvy but it
looks like an interesting set-up.
In case you are wealthy you can always get a
Hotpod.
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/12/08/hotpod-stove-air-cooled-just-like-its-origins/
Robert
1982 Westfalia
--- Tabe Johnson <greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:
> >
> > I think it's a awful idea. McGyver-ing up
> your
> > heater boxes with copper plumbing, that is.
> >
> > Of course I can't help but say this, as I
> have
> > seen all the futile attempts at air-cooled
> > heaters.
> >
> > I sell Eberspacher BA-6 heaters for
> Vanagons .
> > Designed for the freezing air-cooled Vanagon
> > owner .
> >
> > Bob's charcoal briquet stove would be easier
> if
> > you are on a budget.
>
>
> Now _THERE'S_ an unbiased opinion! Allow me a
> liberal paraphrasing:
>
> "There is nothing you can do to get adequate
> heat from
> air cooled vanagons. If you don't buy one of
> my heaters,
> you might as well kill yourself with a BBQ"
>
> Hmmm... I'd get the heater.
>
>
>
> tabe johnson/87 westy
>
--- Tabe Johnson <greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:
> >
> > I think it's a awful idea. McGyver-ing up
> your
> > heater boxes with copper plumbing, that is.
> >
> > Of course I can't help but say this, as I
> have
> > seen all the futile attempts at air-cooled
> > heaters.
> >
> > I sell Eberspacher BA-6 heaters for
> Vanagons .
> > Designed for the freezing air-cooled Vanagon
> > owner .
> >
> > Bob's charcoal briquet stove would be easier
> if
> > you are on a budget.
>
>
> Now _THERE'S_ an unbiased opinion! Allow me a
> liberal paraphrasing:
>
> "There is nothing you can do to get adequate
> heat from
> air cooled vanagons. If you don't buy one of
> my heaters,
> you might as well kill yourself with a BBQ"
>
> Hmmm... I'd get the heater.
>
>
>
> tabe johnson/87 westy
>
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