Dutton Kit Cars and their owners
Garage Heaters
So.. Is it soft to want a bit of warmth in the man cave while you're working on the car?
If you do have a heater, what do you use?
I've been thinking of getting a couple of infra red, wall mounted heaters just to take the chill out of the air, especially as I am thinking of painting the car this spring, using celly and don't want it to bloom because it has moisture in.
What's your thoughts/ideas?
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Permalink Reply by Paul Sheridan on
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Infrared heaters only heat what they touch, they dont heat the air around you. Need to have one playing on you where you are working , it toasty then, but the rest of the shop wont heat up. Ive got one over my bench .... heats tools up a treat on the bench top :-) If there arnt too many draughts the best thing I have found is a 3KW fan heater near the roof pointing downwards, heats air up quickly and also re circulates the heated air back down into the shop (hot air rises and all that)
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Southgate on
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If I wanted to warm the body of the car in the garage then it sounds like using infra red is the way to go then.
I know the patio type lamp heaters at our local keep me warm when I'm outside 'avin a fag'. If they warm all the things within range then the heat radiated from those things would warm the air up.
I'd love to put in a wood burner and radiators but I'd have to stay with the car while it was drying, breathe loads of celly thinners :-) and then probably sit on the wet paint.
I need to get some more lights fitted and insulate the roof before I start, that might help too.
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Permalink Reply by 2zb8cfd8f5ygm on
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I use an infa red heater in my shed when it's cold. They are light and portable and can be moved around easily. I got a couple for £25 on the Bay last year.
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Face... Bovvered
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I tried heating a cornish pasty up with the IR once, put an axle stand on me bench with the pasty on top, left it there for an hour ..... lovely and warm on the out side, stone cold on the inside YUCK. Oxy/Accet didnt work either!!!
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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on
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The butane heaters produce huge amounts of water vapour and are useless for heat if your planning to spray. that's why my mate took my advise and made a log burner. very cheap to run and it produces dry heat. good for keeping tea coffee warm (read hot)
He can get his garage from 6-7 degrees to 17-18 in only a couple of hours. very comfortable to work in.
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Some pictures of the gas bottle conversion my mate did, i sold him my spare mig welder and gave him the old gas bottle and a basic welding lesson and he made this as a first fabrication project. And did a very good job, he since went on to strip his very tidy Mk 3 Cortina, originally to fix a small hole in the O/S subframe mount we found last year but (this car has never been welded mate......true it had about 20 repair patches brazed on!) as he striped the paint away to make the repair more and more was found to need work. The end result is now a bare shell in his garage, almost ready for paint after having a huge amount of welding work done. The home made log burner allowed him to work through the winter in his concrete garage.
There is a little drawer at the bottom to aid in emptying the ash, it also allows the air flow to the burner to be regulated and so control the burn speed by pulling it out varying amounts. The flue comes out the rear, and is made from a steel pipe from a scrap yard.....
the burner had to have some steel fitted between the burner and the garage extension as it was scorching the wooden wall.....
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He also welded some metal strips to the top of the bottle.....the thought being that it would keep his tea warm, however in practice it would boil the cups dry quite quickly so he now uses a piece of decking plank to stand his cup on when its on the top. the decking plank is quite scorched now.....
in the picture above shows some damp logs on top of the stove drying out.
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Comfort for this old(ish?) arthritis sufferer - lined center part of garage ceiling with "Radiator Foil" and hang a work/site floodlight -500/1000W about a foot or so above 'head-height'. ( bit more if you want a tanned "dome" ! ) a bit expensive maybe, but it doesn't take long. Warms you and tools/what your working on.
I've got 2 flourescents, ceiling mounted + Benchlights.as well. (latter picked up from local shop being re-fitted....they were intended for the skip! if you don't ask..??
Radiator Foil from "Toolstation" - 4.0x0.5metre roll £5.27 or bribe a local heating engineer!
Cheapest place for floodlight lamps- Two for a1£ @...yes, The Pond Shop.
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aldi turbo fan space heater 60 quid
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Do you know if they are still available Allan? Our local Aldi doesn't keep much stuff like that so it goes pretty quick when the do get some.
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only came in today on offer
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