My parents had one that they used in their new 68 VW Bus to avoid putting in
a gas heater.  It didn't work very well for what they were trying to
accomplish, so they had to break down and fork over the bucks for the real
thing.  The bus is long gone, but I still have the heater.

Joe 87 GL Weekender

>From: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
>Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Coleman Plat Cat Heater Report
>Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 01:30:32 -0500
>
>At 21:42 1/7/00 , Davidson wrote:
>>I don't believe the catalytic heater had been invented twenty years ago.
>>One of the reasons it was invented is because people were dying in the
>>tents and campers from the CO that non-catalytic heaters put out. If your
>>old heater is not
>
>Used one when I was sixteen.  That would be...uh...thirty-three years ago
>approx.
>
>d
>David Beierl - Providence, RI
>  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>'85 GL "Poor Relation"

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