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Cooter Member Posts: 6328 Feedback score: (11)
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It seems that eBay sellers found a warehouse full of these surplus diesel fuel powered tent heaters. A friend picked one up to put in his shop and we have played around with it just a bit and for a non-powered heater, it really throws out some BTU's! After getting all the cosmoline burned off, there is no odor from it and it runs for at least a couple of hours on a gallon of fuel. Since he is an amateur cook, he has a lot of old cooking oil that he was saving to use for bio-diesel, but we decided to try it in the heater blended with 50% diesel fuel. With the old fry oil, it burns clean and seems to heat about as well as it does with straight diesel. I used a thermal gun to check the temp of the outside of the heater and with the fry oil, there was about 100 degrees difference (400 degrees vs 500)- still plenty hot enough to heat the shop. IP: Logged | |||||||||||
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maryjane Member Posts: 69671 Feedback score: (4)
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Is it what used to be called the hunter heater--just a round tub looking thing? Hunters are hard to beat. old style--no hoses or nything else. IP: Logged | |||||||||||
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That's the one. It came with an adjustable 'thermostat' with selections for the different fuels, and the hoses for attaching it to a standard 5 gallon 'jerry can'. Super simple and effective design. The surplus market seems to be flooded with them right now, so I wonder if a replacement has been issued and all the old ones are being phased out. If you need a small shop heater, this thing will do it. IP: Logged | |||||||||||
maryjane Member Posts: 69671 Feedback score: (4)
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If it has hoses, then it's a relatively newer model than what I have expereince with. IP: Logged | |||||||||||
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Government liquidation has them now and again in lots of 12 usually of lots of several lift2 of 12 each. Never had any experience though. Sounds expensive. IP: Logged | |||||||||||
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These can run indoors? No CO issues? Jim IP: Logged | |||||||||||
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I figured they went pretty cheap at the government auctions, but they are heavy (like 80 pounds), so the cost of shipping them is steep. These heaters are just another example of our tax dollars wasted- each one cost around $800 for the government to purchase and they are selling them off by the truckload for only pennies on the dollar IP: Logged | |||||||||||
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