From: Bob N (notmanr7@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 05:02:32 PST
Do you have a picture of this item? During WW2 there were winterization kits
created that included stoves. There were basically two types...specifically
designed for vehicle installation and expedient kits. Both were gasoline
fired.
I have the type that looks like a little stove about 10 or 12 inches in
diamter and about a foot high. It has a flex tube that connects to a fuel
source. The idea was that you started the stove placed it under the engine
and then drapped tarps all around it. I had this in Alaska but it never got
cold enough (to me) to try and use it. Just looked to much like a hazard
waiting to happen.
The type specifically designed for the truck would be mounted in the engine
compartment with hoses connecting it into the cooling system to keep the
block warm. The vehicle would have a hood and grill blanket installed to
help keep the heat in. There was also a blanket UNDER the engine. A hole
would be cut thru the hood so that an exhaust pipe could be pulled into
place.
Another type heater was the crew compartment heater. But these are just
little radiators tied to your vehicles cooling system. In a jeep it was
mounted over the drivers feet. Man, does that do a job on your feet.
Of course these are not tent heaters.
Bob N>
www.42FordGPW.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "GOTaM35" <GOTaM35@joetrapp.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:34 AM
Subject: [MV] Gasoline and oir fired heaters, stoves and so forth
> This may be a little off topic in some people's eyes, but I have a
> question
> or two about the m1941 tent heaters and liquid fuel immersion heaters. I
> say off topic to some but I think the immersion heaters are for use on
> water
> buffalo's and the tent heater could be put in a truck?
>
> The heaters I have appear to run on gasoline. I think you can use diesel
> or
> kerosene but there is a warning that they will not work as well. I have
> seen what I though to be "oil" fired heaters for the trucks, artic stuff.
> My question is this, do most of the older military liquid fuel heaters use
> gasoline? Are any designed to use diesel? I have several of these 1941
> stoves and plan to sell a few on, dare I say, eBay. I have noticed other
> people selling them on eBay but they say they are designed for oil.
> Several
> do not mention gasoline at all. Are there some burners designed for oil
> as
> the primary fuel?
>
> Ronzo posted a link to the manual for these heaters the other day
> (thanks).
> It would appear that the type II heaters discussed in this manual are for
> gasoline. Page 19 talks about the alternate fuels.
>
> If someone don't mind pointing me to a source of info on all these types
> of
> things, or explaining a little about them on this list please do. I am
> afraid of gasoline heaters in a confined space. I have burned too many
> things with it. I like oily fuels. They are harder to burn and don't
> blow
> up so easily.
>
> Again, it know I have seen reference to fuel fired heaters for M35's and
> so
> forth. I have dismissed any concern about these things in the past
> because
> I just couldn't imagine having an open flame in the cab or bed of a truck.
> I know explosions are a part of combat, but in a moving vehicle or tent
> sounds bad.
>
> Thanks for indulging me. I plan to put some of my "surplus" goods on ebay
> soon. I do wish someone would have an alternative way to sell things that
> would provide a third party with things like feed back. In fact why don't
> one of you computer savvy guys setup a site just for us MV nuts and
> collectors to exchange goods on with a small fee for your trouble.
>
> Joe Trapp
>
>
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