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Question for you guys with the need for a pre-heater. Do you have
electricity available to the plane?
If so, here's a simple and inexpensive solution.....
Get a 'trouble-light' and hange it on the engine mount so that the
lightbulb is near the oil tank
and below the crankcase. (Be sure there are no fuel fumes first of
course). Leave the light turned on
for a while and it'll be warm inside the engine compartment. If you like,
you could use a smaller
wattage bulb and leave it on all the time then it would always be ready to
start with no waiting time.
This of course could be a safety hazard so you'll have to use some
common sense when hanging the
light inside the compartment to prevent any fire hazard.
When I was in the USAF and stationed at Glasgow Montana I designed
something similar to this for the
little car I had up there that had to sit outside in temperatures that
probably no one on this group can
even imagine living through.
My little car had a two cylinder, air cooled engine in it. The
crankcase was at the bottom of the
engine like a normal car does. I built a box on the end of a 2X8 about 4
feet long. Inside the box I
installed a light socket for a regular screw-in lightbulb. I put some soft
baffle type material around
edges of the open top of the box so that when I pushed it under the car
it would fold down to slip
under the engine and then 'pop up' again to hold the heat inside the box.
Then I'd take the other end of
the extention cord and plug it into an outlet that I made in the side of
the house.
If it was expected to get really cold at night I'd leave it on all
night but if it was going to be
only 50-60 below zero that night I'd just turn it on when I first got up
in the morning and within
about an hour or two it would have the engine metal and the oil warm
enough that the car would start. I
ran the power to the outlet through the porch light switch so I didn't
have to go outside to turn it on.
This system worked really good, there were many, many mornings that I
had the only car in the
neighborhood that would start. We had all kind of cylinder block heaters,
dipstick heaters, headbolt
heaters, etc, that could be bought in the area, but none of them worked as
good as my homemade one.
Just one problem with the droplight under your engine cowl on the
coupes though, if there isn't
electricity available where your plane sits, it won't work. : - (
Good luck and what the heck, spring is just around the corner. Right?
Yeah, sure, but where the heck
is that corner??????
Bob Saville
craig hinton wrote:
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> Robert Graves wrote:
> > Greg, I use one similar to yours....I open one side of cowl, and use a
> > THICK old sleeping bag [zipper removed] draped over top of engine hood
> > and opp. unopened cowl......works good! Bob M93834
> >
>
> For simplicity and SAFETY it's hard to beat the Tanis engine heat
> system. Craig 2623H
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