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Posted by RossMN, HVAC MAN! yes finally a post that can respond too! on January 02, 2002 at 23:08:56 from (206.9.112.109):
In Reply to: need shop heat fast posted by robbie on January 02, 2002 at 21:48:32:
well you could get one of those do-it-yourself 55 gallon drum wood furnaces (always advetrised in farming magazines) or weld a 3w x 2h x3l box (with legs) out of 1/4 plate steel and burn wood make sure you have a door and a place to scrape ashes and one or two adjustable air vents and the ever important chimney (keep unit away from combustables) and if your agressive set a 55 gallon drum and fill that with used oil and have a pipe runing to the furnace from a distance, put a spigot in the furnace and find how much oil that the furnace can burn. you could get one of those "Knipco" portable heaters they burn keroseen or deisel and are realy good at melting grills of cold cars I haven't been around those but, the people I have talked to seem to like them. It dosen't pay to buy a used furnace fuel oil or a natural gas or LP and try to limp it throught the winter because the furnaces I have changed out are junk. Nobody says "lets go look a the 02 line up of lenox furnaces that 91 has a scratch in the induction fan" most change outs I do are for 2 reasons they are "the heat exchanger is cracked " or "the heat exchanger will crack." the rest are woried about the furnace craping out before the big storm (rare) and that sends red flags up about the furnace and most "worry" replacements are welfare replacements (yep u and me pay for em) so they probably wern't serviced in the last decade much less, the filter changed. Yes, you will probably hear about the lady who knew a guy whos fathers, brothers, inlaws, cousins stepchild who heated his 100 by 450 ft shop and indoor race track with no insulation with a Lp 10,000 btu furnace that was set up for natural gas (diffrent gas preasures) came out of his great-grandpas sod house. corn furnaces are good but aren't as efective when it gets to 10 below. when you build your new shop may I recomend a hanging furnace you can get them in fuel oil, nat gas and LP so you don't have to worry about wood or having enough used oil on hand (like thats a problem with oil!) (you can get multi fueled furnaces too waste oil and fuel) they are out of the way but service is a little harder thought, are safer than wood and if you get a fuel oil get it tuned up every year nozzels on the burners get wore out and won't be as efficient. sorry it got so long e-mail me if you have any more questions.
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