Date:         Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:02:52 -0500
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      Hot Water for Westy,
              was: Warm water heating staff Campingstar in Reimo catalog
Comments: To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>

Here's another unpatented idea for you to get rich from: Instant Hot water
for the Westfalia. I haven't run this through a beta test, but the idea is
sound. One of you can give it a whorl, since I have another system in
place.

Home Depot and Lowes both carry 25 foot lengths of neatly coiled 1/4"
copper tubing. The tubing could easily be affixed to the standard Westy
faucet with a slip-on connector, (something like a condom?) and
disconnected with ease. The intermediate tubing (between the copper and the
condom-thingy) would be heat-resistant rubber hose, like that used under
the hood of a car.

Without the aid of a pipe-bender, one could easily 'massage' the coil into
a smaller coil, approximately the size of a Westy Stove burner. Perhaps you
could make the coil slightly peaked in the middle, (like a low teepee) to
channel the flame, and increase exposed surface of the pipe. Whenever you
wanted hot water (for dishes, face washing, birthing babies), you could
hook up your little furnace, light the stove, and turn on the water.

If, as I suspect, 25 feet is not enough length to sufficiently heat the
water, a second coil could be spliced in, and fit over the second burner.

Or you can do what I do, and heat the water in a 1.5-gallon campfire coffee
pot. ;)

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree

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