Paraffin heater

666 george · Jan 5, 2010

I may be talking out my arse but here goes.
Do you think you could leave a small greenhouse paraffin heater on in the back over night to stop everything icing up (without setting light to your pride & joy)

I'm now waiting for all the crazy answers like stop talking out your arse Graham

gemsdad · Jan 5, 2010

ok i will be first.STOP TALKING OUT OF YER ARSE GRAHAM.

goonarmy · Jan 5, 2010

without ventilation it might be a dodgy drive to work, no air, lots of fumes.Try these http://www.webasto.co.uk/am/en/am_automobile_3177.html

Beneagles · Jan 5, 2010

Can picture all the neighbourhood cats stretched out on the roof by the morning!

The Mad Hat Man · Jan 5, 2010

dont forget - paraffin heaters push out loads of water as well - so it wont be frozen - just soaking wet

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Beast o Bodmin · Jan 5, 2010

you need to retro fit a fuel burn heater from a rover 75 and put it on timer......

666 george · Jan 5, 2010

What spead £300 on a webasto or £20 on a paraffin heater, what do you think I'm made of money.
It's soaking wet inside anyway

That's why nobody else is doing it

Sean · Jan 5, 2010

seeing as there's a gardening theme to your efforts to heat your landy, have you considered running a few 100 meters of this around it ?

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andyb66 · Jan 5, 2010

The Mad Hat Man said:
dont forget - paraffin heaters push out loads of water as well - so it wont be frozen - just soaking wet .

This is the case when burning any Hydro-Cardon fuel.

Beast o Bodmin · Jan 5, 2010

andyb66 said:
This is the case when burning any Hydro-Cardon fuel.

so a scrap yard fbh would be best as it has an exhaust.plenty of cars have em if you can find em.....

in the range rover section you will find how too.

trax99 · Jan 5, 2010

this is apart from the chnace of blowing the bloody thing up

Trewey · Jan 5, 2010

get a small oil-filled radiator and run out an extension lead.
good idea to plug it into an RCD though.

Tervueren · Jan 5, 2010

Why bother, it'll be fecking freezing in there after the first mile anyway

trax99 · Jan 5, 2010

Why bother, it'll be fecking freezing in there after the first mile anyway

to bloody true

trax99 · Jan 5, 2010

ah well still not got to grips with this posting lark

Optimus Prime · Jan 5, 2010

Treworgey 90 said:
get a small oil-filled radiator and run out an extension lead.
good idea to plug it into an RCD though.

or a small fan heater, say 2 kw, which you can run on a lead into your house. in the morning, just plug it in when you get up, then by the time you go out in the morning, all toasty warm, as trewy says, best plug it in through an RCD though, unless it is fed from an RCD protected circuit at the main fuse board.

666 george · Jan 5, 2010

The only problem with running a lead to a electric heater is some dick will trip over it cos it will have to go across the path

m35reo · Jan 6, 2010

iv just got one of them bathroom heater fan jobbies, runs off me inverter and gets it toasty in no time. gave up trying to make a landy heater heat

Sean · Jan 6, 2010

m35reo said:
iv just got one of them bathroom heater fan jobbies, runs off me inverter and gets it toasty in no time. gave up trying to make a landy heater heat

how big is your inverter ?

gavbriggs · Jan 6, 2010

Beast o Bodmin said:
so a scrap yard fbh would be best as it has an exhaust.plenty of cars have em if you can find em.....

in the range rover section you will find how too.

where is this how to, all i can find is an how not to, my bleedin posts!!!

i would go for a night heater type, usually called a webasto airtop, galaxy's, sharans, allhambras amongt others have them, the coolant heaters are a pain!!!

you can fit a simple timer from maplins type places or get a remote gate/garage door opener (on fleebay) for about 3 quid + post.

you can even rig it up so you can send a text message to it, trick is to set up a text on yer phone, then delay the sending till half hour before you need to start the car.

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