Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:41:31 -0600
Reply-To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Subject: Re: Hot Water for Westy,
was: Warm water heating staff Campingstar in Reimo catalog
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Yes, it is a thing of beauty - David Garth, it's creator, is my guru, he'll
forget more about Westies than I'll ever know, and he pays me to say nice
things about him, too.
There is a source for $19.99 solenoid valves in Winnipeg - I plan to use
that one instead of the Grangier-supplied one, that he used.
BTW: The solenoid valve of which I speak is offered for sale by Princess
Auto, a catalog of theirs (really interesting, to me at least) can be
obtained by phoning: (800) 665-8685.
Tell them Marshall the VW nut sent you - they won't know what you are
talking about, though.
Cheers, and Happy New Year!
Marshall Ruskin
Winnipeg, Canada
84 Westy "Iron Igloo"
>Scroll down on this page and check out the water heater set-up. It's a
>thing of beauty!!
>
>http://www.tiu.net/~des/vw/garth/index.html
>
>Cheers,
>Doug
>'84 Westy
>Toronto, Canada
>
>
>
>From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM> on 12/30/99 04:02 PM
>
>Please respond to Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>cc:
>Client:
>Subject: Hot Water for Westy, was: Warm water heating staff
> Campingstar in Reimo catalog
>
>
>
>
>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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