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From: Champ on 22 Dec 2009 07:35 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:41:30 -0000, "TMack" <tonyREMOVECAPSmackin(a)REMOVECAPS.dsl.pipex.com> wrote: >Steve Parry wrote: >> Thinking about my freezing garage issue, I got to thinking of putting >> a heater in there to keep the chill off. There's mains electric in >> there but it seems a waste of cash chucking a heater in there 24/7. >Use a couple of tubular 120w greenhouse heaters to keep temp above 0C. You >can even place them strategically under or near bikes to reduce >condensation/rust problems. That's exactly what I used to do with my race bikes - a greenhouse heater under the bike, to stop the water freezing (no anti-freeze allowed in race bikes). -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Steve Parry on 22 Dec 2009 07:54 "Scraggy" <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> wrote in message news:KaudnWWI0onuPq3WnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d(a)brightview.com... > Steve Parry wrote: >> Thinking about my freezing garage issue, I got to thinking of putting >> a heater in there to keep the chill off. There's mains electric in >> there but it seems a waste of cash chucking a heater in there 24/7. >> >> Then I got to thinking as I live on top of a mountain it's almost >> always breezy up here so could I molish a small windmill, connect it >> to a car alternator from the scrapyard and plug in a 12v cab heater >> that I've seen in car accessory shops. >> >> Seems a simply enough plan to me, so what are the pitfalls? :) > > > Here you go mate, solar is the way forward.(1) > > http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/04/26/almost-free-garage-heat-just-drink-a-lot-of-soda/ > > (1) Only solar garage on the mountain. Isn't it. That's a neat idea :) Anyone want to help me get through 50 cans of beer :)? In fact lets make a 100 can version :) -- Steve Parry 87 BMW R80RS, 03 BMW R1100S Boxercup, 07 BMW K1200GT SE 02 Suzuki DRZ400SY-GT edition, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50, 82 Suzuki GN400, BMW 330Ci www.gwynfryn.co.uk
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Dec 2009 08:38 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> saying something like: > >Do *not* use a paraffin heater anywhere that you keep tools. You'll have >the place running with water and all your lovely expensive toys rusting >before you've blown the match out. <ding> Same goes for gas heaters.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Dec 2009 08:41 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Pip Luscher <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> saying something like: >so you'd need an oversize turbine to drive relatively high >gearing/belt ratio. This isn't itself a problem but you'd *definitely* >need some means of preventing overspeed in really high winds; either a >feathering turbine or a mechanism that turns the turbine edge-on to >the wind. Self-regulating. "Oops, it's blown over."
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Dec 2009 08:50
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "TMack" <tonyREMOVECAPSmackin(a)REMOVECAPS.dsl.pipex.com> saying something like: >Use a couple of tubular 120w greenhouse heaters to keep temp above 0C. You >can even place them strategically under or near bikes to reduce >condensation/rust problems. Bingo. Localise the heat and tubular heaters are brill for under bikes if the whole bike is covered by a tarp. Other localised heat is readily available in the form of 150 and 250W heat lamps, beloved of pig farmers. I'd not recommend the 250W, as it doesn't last long, but the 150W lasts for years. Simply rig them up to point at the workbench. |