also a company called hunter which sells under a couple of other names. 
  falconaire for its civilian products (and i found its civilian 
products can run on 12v as well as 24v)
the military model is at
http://www.huntermfgco.com/military/uh49.htm
jimt

On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 06:57 AM, 80 Westy Pokey wrote:

> The modern day heaters you are talking about are made by
> Espar, an offshoot of Eberspaecher. There is a small Diesel
> version of one of these on eBay right now:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1869690682
>
> Not mine usual disclaimers...
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:21:05 -0600
>> From: jimt <westydriver@tactical-bus.info>
>> Subject: Re: [WetWesties] �Wanted: Propex or Carver P4
> furnace
>> To: VeeWee111@aol.com
>> Cc: wetwesties@yahoogroups.com
>>
>> I would have no problems with adding a small tank for deisel
> to my
>> westy.  I know the heater and didnt even think of them.  we
> used them
>> in tacs units in the air force in several sizes from that
> small one on
>> up to one about 4 times as large.   ours were all 24v units
> but that is
>> not a problem for me either.
>> thanks
>> jimt
>> On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 04:29 PM,
> VeeWee111@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> In a message dated 10/16/2002 12:17:09 PM Pacific Daylight
> Time,
>>> westydriver@tactical-bus.info writes:
>>>> finally found a couple of sites listing the heaters.
>>>
>>> Hi Jim,
>>> You might try semi-truck wrecking yards.  A midwest USA
> located fellow
>>> list
>>> member on the vintagebus list was able to find and
> purchace a very
>>> compact
>>> complete German manufactured heater system used when
> truckers parked
>>> on cold
>>> nights at truck stops.  It ran off of diesel, but
> converted to gasolene
>>> easily with factory parts.
>>> AH!!!  Found the Email from Woody at:  <A
>>> HREF="http://www.type2.com/archive/vintagebus/003546.html">
>>> http://www.type2.com/archive/vintagebus/003546.html</A>
>>>
>>> Eric&Barb
>>
>>
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