Chris -

Do you really mean a Platinum Cat?  It's vented, so there is no worry about
CO and hooks to the van's propane system so it doesn't need extra bottles of
fuel

- Mike Finkbiner
'87 Westy (looking for a used propane tank)
Moscow, Idaho

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Date:    Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:50:37 -0700
From:    Chris Smith <chris.smith@AQUILA.NET>
Subject: Re: Platinum Cat Heater

At 08:32 AM 10/11/01 -0700, Charles McGehee wrote:
 >That's good info, Frank.  Thanks.  So you sleep with it on, huh?  I'm
 >skeptical about the safety of any unvented gas-fired heaters in closed
 >spaces -- CO, you know -- but you're still kickin',  I guess.  The proof
 >of the pudding .. .

I sleep, eat, party, entertain (that's what us older folks called
"partying" back then), make love, and just live with a platcat running in
the TURD whenever the temp is below 50.  the trick is to keep the top up
until the temp drops below 35, then I lower the top until I can just raise
my 5'8" height in the van.  The little bit of canvas helps keep the CO to a
livable level, but then since I used to live in Chicago in the summer the
CO level in the westy is lower than it was on Lincoln Ave.  I also has a CO
detector next to the lower bunk.  Either it's broke and I'm really dead, or
the levels never get to a danger point with the top slightly open.

One lost weekend
5 bottles of propane
Lows in the 20s
all equals a heck of a good time with the right heater.

Mike Finkbiner
mike_l_f@hotmail.com

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