RJ,
Thanks for the information, but I am a little confused about something. Does the starter run on a battery, or the fan, or both? In other words, if you have an electrical power failure, how do you run the heater without the fan? If the starter is operated with batteries, wouldn't it be simpler to have a push-button piezo starter similar to the ones on a outdoor gas grill where batteries are not required? Thanks, Tom _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RJ Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM]Re: [BlindHandyMan] Latest project Betsy, At my age, No list is a thing of the past. smile, RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Betsy Whitney To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Latest project Good job. I appreciate a man who will take a list to a store! Betsy At 03:18 PM 10/3/2008, you wrote: >The neighbors were having problems with a old ventless heater and I >recommended they throw it out and get a new one. This one they had was about >15 years old. That got me looking for a heater with a good price tag and >around 20,000 B T U. The ones I was looking at around town ranged from $250 >to $300 retail with the thermostat control, oxygen sensor, blower and infra >red. I like them better than the blue flame models. I got on Amazon and >found the Mr. Heater brand that list for $329 and would have cost $300 >locally for $185. So being the fellow I am, I got two of them, one for the >neighbors and one for me. Tuesday I installed their with their sighted help >in about 1/2 hours, seeing all the connections were right at my finger tips, >once I removed the old heater. Yesterday I decided to tackle installing >mine. A course the contractor that built my house five years ago, put in as >little fittings as possible and didn't follow my request. My wife showed me >where she wanted the heater installed. No where near the fitting I had >placed for this purpose. Now out cane the kitchen stove, disconnected the >line back to the main gas line. Placed a tee at that location and re-hooked >up the pipe and stove and started on the line for the heater. This time, >with my wife's insistant, I didn't go to the nation wide home centers to get >the material I needed, by went to a locally owned store. I typed out the >material in the way of fittings and pipes I needed. Laid down the list on >his counter, and about a hour later, I was back home installing the gas >lines and fittings. My wife didn't want any pipe or fitting showing and only >5 inches above floor level, seeing the heater either can be use as a wall >mount or floor model. I was lucky, for on the wall the heater was to be >mounted to, there was a closet on the other side of the wall, so I didn't >have to go up through the studs. I ran 7 feet of 1/2 inch pipe from the tee >and 3/8 through the wall and through the floor in the closet, having the >shut off valve in the closet. I than connected the two together with the >corrugated flexible stainless steel gas line for appliances, taking the easy >way out, seeing I no longer own a pair of pipe dies. This project only took >my wife and I about 3 1/2 hours to complete. Now went electric goes out, as >long as the natural gas in flowing, we will have heat this winter, for the >only thing that runs on electric is the blower, It is equipped with a aa >battery electric spark starter. >RJ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
