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Re: Cabin heater question

Subject: Re: Cabin heater question
From: Augustene Brown <augustene@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:28:34
HI Troy

As Bob Barker said "COME ON DOWN"

For me a cold winter means I have to wear long paints for a week.

Jim & Augustene
N398JB

TroyMaynor@aol.com wrote:

> Hi Y'all,
> I was thinking that a lot of folk with a heater on a Europa had used the oil
> cooler as a heat source. I'm not sure if you could control the oil temp using
> this method since I have not practical experience at this yet. Building a
> classic monowheel, I think I will be resigned to having to purchase TWO
> heater boxes and bolt them to each side of the firewall in order to have a
> firestop. Upstream from that, the two would "Y" together to a shroud behind
> all or some of the oil cooler mounted under the spinner. Is this sound
> reasoning you all? (I wish there was a way to incorporate cooling air into
> the ducts at some point to feed two eyeball vents I have in the panel.)
> If you use one heater box you would have to tee off it to both footwells to a
> flange fitting on each. Then to have a fire stop at the firewall you'd have
> to have yet another shut-off at each flange. Too complex. I may just move to
> Florida.
> Troy



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