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Subject:Re: Air-Cooled heater modifications
From:Robert Keezer
Date:Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:25:55 -0800

Sorry for being so vague.

What you understood me to say to say was" please
buy my
heater or kill yourself with Bob's briquet
heater."

Waht I really said was The BA-6 heater is the
factory solution to heating an air-cooled
Vanagon.

Or you can put a wood stove, or a briquet stove
that is made from  TYPE2 aircleaner, an invention
of Bob Hoover's.

I'm not at all suggesting some put a barbecue
inside the Vanagon.

That should be a little more clear.

In case you did'nt know, Boston Bob wrote an
article on how to build a heater using a VW Bus
aircleaner housing.

It is safe as it vents the fumes out thru a stove
pipe.
You need to be a little tin-snips savvy but it
looks like an interesting set-up.

In case you are wealthy you can always get a
Hotpod.

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/12/08/hotpod-stove-air-cooled-just-like-its-origins/

Robert

1982 Westfalia

--- Tabe Johnson <greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> >
> > I think it's a awful idea.  McGyver-ing up
> your
> > heater boxes with copper plumbing, that is.
> >
> > Of course I can't help but say this, as I
> have
> > seen all the futile attempts at air-cooled
> > heaters.
> >
> >  I sell   Eberspacher BA-6 heaters for
> Vanagons .
> > Designed for the freezing air-cooled Vanagon
> > owner .
> >
> > Bob's charcoal briquet stove would be easier
> if
> > you are on a budget.
>
>
> Now _THERE'S_ an unbiased opinion!  Allow me a
> liberal paraphrasing:
>
> "There is nothing you can do to get adequate
> heat from
> air cooled vanagons.  If you don't buy one of
> my heaters,
> you might as well kill yourself with a BBQ"
>
> Hmmm... I'd get the heater.
>
>
>
> tabe johnson/87 westy
>

--- Tabe Johnson <greentabe-vanagon@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> >
> > I think it's a awful idea.  McGyver-ing up
> your
> > heater boxes with copper plumbing, that is.
> >
> > Of course I can't help but say this, as I
> have
> > seen all the futile attempts at air-cooled
> > heaters.
> >
> >  I sell   Eberspacher BA-6 heaters for
> Vanagons .
> > Designed for the freezing air-cooled Vanagon
> > owner .
> >
> > Bob's charcoal briquet stove would be easier
> if
> > you are on a budget.
>
>
> Now _THERE'S_ an unbiased opinion!  Allow me a
> liberal paraphrasing:
>
> "There is nothing you can do to get adequate
> heat from
> air cooled vanagons.  If you don't buy one of
> my heaters,
> you might as well kill yourself with a BBQ"
>
> Hmmm... I'd get the heater.
>
>
>
> tabe johnson/87 westy
>

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