[Shop-talk] 55k btu radiant kerosene heater?

[Ed Van Scoy]

I have the same model kerosene heater. Works great but
I'm not happy with the fact that kerosene is $7 a
gallon here (in bulk.....$10 for gallon cans at Home
Depot) soooo.... I have a friend that claims he burns
jet fuel in his. He lives next to an airport and says
he buys "outdated" fuel cheap, and it works fine. I am
leary of trying jet fuel, anybody had any experience
with it in a heater???
Ed


 
--- Karl Vacek <kvacek at ameritech.net> wrote:

> If you want to fix your existing heater,
> Reddy-Heater is part of Desa - in 
> Kentucky as I recall - and should have parts. 
> They're set up for DIY'ers - 
> decent tech support is available by phone and
> they'll mail parts right out.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> > So my forced air kerosene heater has finally
> decided to stop working...
> > For a couple years now I've kept the cover loose
> so that I could slide it
> > out of the way and spin the fan by hand to "loosen
> it up" when it wouldn't
> > start.  Now I can still do that, but the fan never
> seems to really spin up
> > to full speed and eventually kicks the breaker on
> the unit (Reddy heater,
> > 55k btu, if you have ideas on how to make it work.
>  I can see the spark,
> > so I know its not that).
> >
> > Anyway, I was looking at other options and ran
> across this one at lowes:
> >
>
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=239878-57645-PT55SS&lpage=none
> >
> > Anyone know anything about this type of heater? 
> The btu output is much
> > higher than other radiant kerosene heaters I've
> seen and the promise of
> > less noise would be welcome...
> >
> > Googling ProTemp Sun-Stream got me nowwhere.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
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