venting kerosene heaters

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:42 am

I'll be using a big 50k BTU heater this weekend in order to work out in the garage. Anyone know anything about keeping these vented, etc>??

JSPipes · Post by **JSPipes** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:18 am

With a big pipe?

JHowell · Post by **JHowell** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:42 am

In a garage, shouldn't be a problem. I used two of them in a garage for rodmaking for a while. They stink, but it's a pretty rare garage that is so tight that you'll asphyxiate yourself with a kerosene heater.

Edit -- do you have cars in there while you're working? A friend nearly burned his house down last year from the garage, motorcycle had a gas leak and the water heater ignited it. You do have to watch all the flammable liquids that tend to be in garages.

JHowell · Post by **JHowell** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:26 am

Thought this might be of interest regarding this question:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/sh ... p?t=150035