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"ATP" wrote in news:8DjId.2264$ snipped-for-privacy@fe12.lga:

"cuse me fellers but ain't the 'mr. heater' an open flame? it is every time I light it up in my ice fishin shack (if I had an ice fishin shack).

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notreallyme
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Or get a pair of bicyclist's glove. Same principle but with a gel pack in the palm. Great at killing vibration.

--RC

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rcook5

Yes, it's just distributed on the mesh, as far as I can tell. I guess it's a lot more controlled than a wood stove, but could still ignite flammables.

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ATP

I have a similar propane radiant heater for Outdoor Work ONLY, comes in handy when you have to do detail work outdoors - like rewire an entire pool/spa control system in February. You can't do that sort of work efficiently with warm gloves on...

Any sort of unvented combustion heater can't be used indoors safely by the average Joe, it's too easy to get nailed by Carbon Monoxide or Oxygen Depletion. Some people just can't grasp the concept of leaving cross ventilation and spot heating the work area, they want to close all the doors and windows up tight so the whole room can heat up nice and toasty.

Or they bring in a lit Hibachi or Weber Kettle full of charcoal.

Can and will. A sure way to earn that posthumous Darwin Award.

That's why a new-design Unit Heater (forced draft, inshot burners, sealed case, flue vent, hung up high where the gasoline fumes aren't) or a vented radiant tube system with an outdoor combustion air option is on my long list for the garage/shop area, even in "Sunny Southern California" - where we're supposed to get rained on yet again for a short spell Wednesday.

You want a heating system where either the combustion is at a remote location (radiant in the floor or a radiator air handler, remote boiler) or a sealed combustion chamber vented through the roof, where you can pipe in outside combustion air also. A little gasoline, thinner or solvents (and/or fumes) lurking about, and an open flame, and it can turn very bad, very fast.

(But in-floor radiant is "new construction only". BPITA to retro.)

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Bruce L. Bergman

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