Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:44:13 -0400
Reply-To: "Joe L." <jliasse@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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From: "Joe L." <jliasse@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: diesel powered heaters-is there such a thing (dieselspacher)?
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For whatevr it's worth. Lacking an Aux Battery and not being too sure how
long the battery would last while camping; my wife and I took a couple of
Standard Kero Lanterns with us on our first trips. One thing we noticed
while using them was the surprising amount of heat they put out. While they
cannot properly be called "heaters" they certainly can serve to take the
edge off of things on even some pretty cold days and allow you to remove
your coat and be comfortable with a sweater or sweat shirt. This without
paying several hundred dollars for "real" heaters and without mounting the
engine on the luggage rack and running pipes to the trailer that contains
the aux tank that supplies the.....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:Vanagon@vanagon.com]On Behalf Of EMZ
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 7:32 AM
> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: diesel powered heaters-is there such a thing
> (dieselspacher)?
>
>
> Diesel heaters are the way to go. Alot less dangerous! This is what
> I have been looking for. I understand the army used the stewart Warner
> brand in many applications. Anyone know of a army surplus that many have
> a bunch of these? If this Webasto was avalable I would go for one after
> the write up from the Japanese fello a while back. Yes you must care
> a second fuel..but I think its worth the effert.
> Eric
>
> > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, David Clarkson wrote:
> >
> > > We all know about the VW type II gas-fueled heater and the
> various propane
> > > heaters, but has anyone ever heard of a diesel powered
> heater? With diesel
> > > being so similar to kerosene it would stand to reason that
> such a thing would
> > > exist. Maybe I should check with a heavy equipment
> manufacturer such as
> >
> > Yep. Espar made some, to my knowledge (available in diesel vanagons, in
> > fact...just usses a glow plug instead of the spark plug...and maybe some
> > fueldelivery diffs, too..
> >
> > Currently, I know Webasto of Germany makes some. GREAT ones. To bad we
> > (the shop I work for) cannot order any of that stuff, since we are only
> > authorized to order fromt he sunroof division of Webasto of
> > America...*sigh*
> >
> > later...david
> >
> > > Catipillar. Anyone with any ideas?
> > >
> >
> > --
> > David Raistrick '69 Westy-Itchigo
> keen@finally.atlasta.net
> > '82 Westy-Baby Maxine (Mom's)
> > '66 SO-44 Westy (coming soon!) in Augusta Ga
> >
>
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