You can't ask the guy that said it worked fine how he lit it, I take it.
I'd go down to my local VFW and find an old Navy Boiler Tech. and buy him a
beer. Prob'ly find out more than you ever wanted to know...

Good luck,
Robert
'87 GL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:40 AM
Subject: LVC shop heater

> so this winter i bought old oil furnace to heat the vanagon shop next
> winter.  this thing is really old but in good shape.  its one of those old
> stand alone units that people used to have in their living room and it
> heated the whole house.  it doesn't need any electricity to run there, was
> a blower fan at some point but its designed to run with or without it.
> without it it runs in convection mode.
>
> the guy that i bought if from had never run it but the owner before him
> had used it to heat his garage and said it worked fine.  i've tried
> searching the net for information on this unit or a similar unit with no
> luck.  the thing that i really need to figure out is how one is supposed
> to light the thing.  the system layout is like this gravity tank to "carb"
> to pipe that goes into a "pot" inside the heater.  it almost looks like
> you start a fire with some material in the pot and then turn the oil on.
> the brand of heater is siegler if that makes any difference.
>
> well if anyone knows about these things or where i might be able to dig up
> some information please contact me.
>
> jonathan