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Title: Bus heater
Post by: matt on January 31, 2009, 02:41:00 PM


  Jack,

came across this thread in thesamba about bus heaters

    heater thread (http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=196698&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ceramic+heater+box&start=0&sid=1ae5ce8b39b8a6add328736ffe60388f)



  they are referig to this page,  ( there are 2 heaters displayed on this page)

mr heater buddy (http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/common/search/search-results1.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&hasJS=true&_D%3AhasJS=+&sort=all&QueryText=buddy&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form23)


Nice that they cut out if the oxygen level gets too low......it's nice to wake up...even with a CO headache!



  Just something for you to check out. the cheaper one is $89.99



Matt


Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: Baha (Shawn) on January 31, 2009, 04:53:44 PM
Quote from: matt on January 31, 2009, 02:41:00 PM

Nice that they cut out if the oxygen level gets too low.

Just a thought: Don't all "flame based" heaters cut out if the oxygen levels get too low? (http://www.jonrb.com/emoticons/rotfl3.gif)
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: 66-Ghia on January 31, 2009, 09:36:14 PM
I have a Heater Buddy in my shop hooked up to a 25 lb. tank outside, it really warms
up the place and has a tip over switch built in. For the bus I am going to use the 1 pound bottles but wait till
Pep Boys have them on sale again ($59.95) and use a CO2 unit for saftey sake.
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: TRAVELER on February 03, 2009, 04:17:53 PM
I have a friend in Pittsburgh area and he uses the little one in his bug says it works great he has no heater boxes on the car just j tubes has it on the floor up front. he doesn`t haul any others in it I guess. vwlogo
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: matt on February 03, 2009, 09:40:47 PM


Never thought of doing that....my heat is great though....
..........wonder how often your friend goes through propane cylinders.


Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: TRAVELER on February 03, 2009, 10:12:32 PM
I`m not sure I need to call him anyway so I`ll ask him. He says it works good.
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: Baha (Shawn) on February 05, 2009, 11:13:01 AM
Jack and I have these (http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:UXVLsypQFkkn3M:http://libarynth.org/_media/survivalcat.jpg)camping heaters. They last about 6 hours on a small cylinder. You could strap it to a board and it would be fine on the passenger floor
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: lovebus (jack) on February 05, 2009, 06:54:14 PM
I got one like that for our last camping trip, works good.
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: 6T5 square on February 06, 2009, 05:28:13 AM
Hey you know, if you want a real good bus heater you could just light the damn thing on fire  :icon_cheers: LAUGH@ LAUGH@ :icon_cheesygrin: :icon_geek: :-* :icon_tongue: :icon_thumright: :icon_thumleft: ;D :evil: :icon_twisted: :icon_jokercolor: :icon_clown: :icon_sunny: $61$ P#3 777 BO** !5! (love
Title: Re: Bus heater
Post by: TRAVELER on February 24, 2009, 09:35:21 PM
Spoke to my friend and he has a propane  tank from a grill mounted in  the spare tire well(its a 71 or 72 super) and has it plumbed to the heater!!!! s#r