

| Subject: | freezing |
| Date: | Mon, 5 Dec 1994 09:14:23 -0500 |
>I have a 77 campmobile. Its lots of fun as long as the temp is over 40. >Anybody got some suggestions on how to heat this thing. Most of the >heater parts are new. >george McCabe Yes. I have a 76 camper. My solution was to hang a curtain of thick plastic behind the front seats, in effect isolating the cab from the rest of the van. At first, I used a plastic painter's tarp, but it was hard to see throuth. The best plastic is this really heavy (almost 1mm thick) very clear stuff that a restauranteur friend used to cover tables with. It comes in a 4' wide roll. I cut two panels from it, and installed snaps (get a snap tool from you local boat shop or fabric store or good hardware store) in overhead where there was a series of small screws marching right across the roof, and matched them in the plastic. One panel hangs behind the driver's seat, and the other overlaps by several centimeters and extends over to the sliding door. It hangs down far enough that I tuck it under the carpet. The only tricky part was the 'dart' I had to make to get it around the passenger seat headrest. In addition, I sealed off the vent which feeds the back of the van in the floor just behind the fronts seats. It still takes a while to warm up, but then it gets quite toasty. Good luck. - JT John Tauxe tauxejd@ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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