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Posted by ransley on March 19, 2008, 11:39 pm
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:11:58 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
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> >Today I was working in an unheated building. It was a "round house". Hous=
e
> >set up by the beach, along the edge of a lake. Designed as a summer home =
for
> >the waterfront director of a camp.
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> >Masonry structure, cinder block wall. Probably 20 foot diameter, about 9
> >foot ceiling. It was 37F outdoors, and there was a thermometer indoors, s=
aid
> >it was 40F.
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> >I lit up a one burner camp stove, Coleman $20 unit from Walmart. I could
> >barely feel any difference, in the indoor temp. probably 4,000 or 5,000 b=
TU.
> >After a while, the tank got frosty, and the flame went down. I heated the=
> >tank with a propane torch, and the flame went back up for a few minutes.
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> >After a while, the camp got us a "milk house" heater, and we plugged that=
> >in. 1500 watts. Which helped a little. By the time I left, it was 50F
> >indoors.
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> >What I'd like, some kind of "weed burner" to burn a lot of propane in a
> >hurry. Raise the temp from 40 to 60 would be really nice.
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> >It should work on a 16 ounce propane bottle. It's OK to invert the bottle=
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> >to feed liquid propane to the burner. Small enough to carry in the van wi=
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> >the rest of my tools. =A0Should be relatively safe, if supervised by an a=
dult.
> >Doesn't necessarily have to be OSHA approved. It's just for occasional us=
e.
> >Any ideas? Weed burner, maybe?
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> Kids,
> Please dont encourage Stormy the fundy idiot. All one has to do is
> read what he typed and you know all he is asking for is disaster.
> Just give him a key, a lock and a can of WD-40. That should keep him
> busy for a month while sitting in a corner.
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Running a propane tank upside down, heating a frozen tank with a
propane torch, wanting a 230,000 btu "weed burner" roofing torch,
common he he cant hurt himself. Gee a camping stove to heat a
building, thats funny.
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