My Black Friday special showed up

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Princess Valiant

Princess Valiant

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got my black Friday special this morning with the Fed-ex truck.

I have never had one of these heaters before but WOW ....it took the garage from 30 degrees to 80 in 20 minutes with diesel fuel ....on the low setting its 170,000 BTU and high setting is 210,000 I only ran the low setting.

it did do a good job removing the oxygen out of the place ...I had a window open but I need even more ventilation than I thought with that high of volume of air transfer.

this was long overdue ....it came up on SAMS club website the night before thanksgiving and my dad went halfers with me to get it because he knew I didn't have that much cash then....took a week to get here but cant complain with free shipping to my house.

now we are toasty with a working temp of 70 degrees. ....especially when its single digits outside ....only downside is when it came on like a jet engine sure scared the cat.
 

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Awesome!!! I'll be over with my Dart so I have a cozy place to work on it.
 
I have one like that but different brand. In Florida it only gets used a couple days a year. It gets the shop warm in a hurry.
 
67cudafb said:
I have one like that but different brand. In Florida it only gets used a couple days a year. It gets the shop warm in a hurry.
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sometimes I wish I lived in a warmer place .....this is only December ...usually the real cold comes in Jan and Feb. :coffee2:

but its a trade off because I love the dry rust free metal out here :D
 
You can open windows now all year long! Yes please be careful with the fumes/CO2.

Maybe get a CO2 senosr for the shop now?
 
Ya, they make a bit of noise, don't they? I need to invest in one too, now that I have shop space again.
 
Good Purchase, Rani. Be sure to use it safely. Don't forget venting, as well as flammables. Everything from gasoline fumes to spray can fumes.
Like any tool, use it right, and be safe.
 
All good advise above about the fumes! Be carefull!

I got one of those tube heaters for my garage but it is smaller and runs on propane. When we built the house and garage, I had the garage insulated too. So in about 15 minutes, it gets really toasty in there and I could work in a t shirt and it doesn't cool of quickly. Well worth the expense.
 
Rani do not run bio diesel in it. I have been told they don't run well with it.
 
way cool! (actually not so cool, kinda warm!) you'll like working in a warmer garage!
 
Frankie said:
Good Purchase, Rani. Be sure to use it safely. Don't forget venting, as well as flammables. Everything from gasoline fumes to spray can fumes.
Like any tool, use it right, and be safe.
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Good advise, make sure you have clean air to breathe and have fun :glasses7:
 
Those are great but try to use kerosene and not diesel. Diesel is kerosene with oil mixed in.It will burn a lot cleaner and a lot less fumes on kerosene.
 
They use to have #1&#2 kerosene, doubt they have both now, but #1 kerosene is what you want to use if still available.

It will burn cleanest but be very careful of the fumes in small space.

I have several, need to check them out since they are all old and the last time I tried one it wouldn't lite.

Do have a 300,000 BTU heater like that. I think it is a JET ENGINE, .........LOL

All the others at 85,000 BTU

ALSO DONT HAVE ANYTHING FLAMEABLE OR MELTABLE CLOSE TO IT
 
From experience, be carefull when you get wet and cold and decide that the heater is a good way to dry off and get warm.
They work GREAT but you can also get steam cooked legs while you are too cold to realise it.
 
WildCat said:
They use to have #1&#2 kerosene, doubt they have both now, but #1 kerosene is what you want to use if still available.

It will burn cleanest but be very careful of the fumes in small space.
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I believe the #2 kerosene is what they call around here "tractor fuel".Its a form of cheap dirty diesel that is allowed in farm equipment but illegal to run in trucks.So stay away from the #2 for your heaters.
 
All good advice given about fumes, oxygen depletion and flammables. Another thing to watch out for, while not harmful to you, is moisture. Those things will put a TON of moisture into the air in short order. Bare metal panels, machined surfaces and hell, even your tools will not take kindly to the extra moisture in the air. Trust me, I know! I used to use one of those torpedo heaters on kerosene and was constantly battling rust on everything! I switched over to a direct vent, LPG wall heater, but it burned through propane like no tomorrow, even set at 50 degrees (I keep it on all the time to keep the garage from reaching freezing tepuratures), so I pulled it out and replaced it with a pellet stove. I should've done that to start with. Running at the lowest setting it burns about a bag of pellets a day at $4.18 a bag ($125-$130/mo) while I was using a 100# tank of propane every 10 days with the direct vent heater. At $80 a fill that's $240/mo! The pellet stove cut the heating cost almost in half and on the lowest setting the garage maintains a constant 60-64 degrees depending on the outside air temperature. I can work comfortably at that temp, but have 8 more settings if I really want to warm it up!
 
I have the same style heater, mine will use either K1 or diesel. K1 is a little more expensive, but burns cleaner. And, does yours have a thermostat setting? It's a nice thing to use so you don't have to either turn it on or off yourself or get sweaty and then get chilled when you go from garage to house. Not too many wind breaks where you are at, right?
 
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