That got it, thanks guys!

 

It snowed like crazy in Waco today...I was waiting for a movie to start at the theater (I saw Astro Boy), and it looked like a mini-blizzard outside. It didn't stick, but it was cool to get some snow on Christmas Eve.

And that reminds me, I charged my Optima in my truck the other day, and I don't think I've ever heard the starter crank the engine as fast as it did when I last started it after charging. Gotta love them Optimas!

 

We are still getting snow.
2 feet per hour at the moment.

Blizzard warning in effect until Saturday morning...


oh joy.

 

That sucks.

I have to say though, if it did that I would go out and play in it.

I have never seen real snow.lol

 

You didn't get any snow? We got some here plus there was some up near Dallas and Fort Worth.

 

Take all the snow from me that you want, I can't stand it. Neither can my F250, absolutely hates it.

 

Kirbster, you're the Bomb!

 

Got about an inch on the ground ( West Side of Ft. Worth.) right now. It was closer to 2 (maybe was) but it kinda melted down some. It's crunchy now. When it first came down it was great snowball making snow.

I think Santa may be getting senile. I have a natural gas heater. Why would he leave me a lump of coal?

 

Thanks greyghost! You're awesome

I think I've made one snowball in my whole life, lol. I made a little snowman on the hood of my truck a couple Easters ago when it snowed real heavy here. :P

Natural gas heaters are awesome. Is it a Dearborn, or what is it?

You don't want Santa giving you gas though, do you? LOL

 

It's central heat and air- what kind of trailer do you think I live in?

Seriously, most trailers are nicer than this house and most of them are bigger, too!

I have an old Dearborn that I've had for 30+ years. I've given it away and it was given back( after a few years use). I've tried to sell it and it didn't sell (yard sale). I think maybe it is destiny that I keep this thing. It's outlasted raising a daughter and 24 years of marriage. When I first got it, it was set up for propane. I got a natural gas orifice for it so I could hook it up in my (rented) house. I wish I could lay my hands on the original, or get up off my butt and revert it back to propane. I could use it in my sheds or even job sites. ( I thought about deer stands- but we're supposed to cook them , not get cooked hunting them!)

I love Dearborns, too. This paticular heater had a bad habit of shattering the ceramic cones and only realized here recently that there is a shelf on the front of the burner assembly (or at least there SHOULD be) that the front of these sit on. The one on this heater is almost completely corroded away, which allows the cones to tip forward AND drop down, allowing the cones to slip out from under the restraining rod at the top.I need to fix that.

I just recently got on this computer and I can't locate the spell-check, so I apologize in advance for any I may have missed.
Merry Christmas-

 

Don't get me started on trailers...I lived in one with 3/4 of its wiring screwed up after we accidentally ran a heater and microwave on the same circuit. It was extension cords and dead outlets from then on...

Oh ok. I just thought of stand-alone heaters like a Dearborn when you said "natural gas heater".

I never thought about that...you could technically take a propane one anywhere as long as you had a tank to run it on. Some of the ones I saw at that pawn shop were propane.

I'm wanting to pick up a smaller Dearborn or other gas heater for my room. My double-pane windows are missing their second panes and they're thin glass, so my room is the coldest one in the house after the bathrooms. The Dearborn we have can cook a goose from across the room, so I figure I won't have to run one very high at all to get my room warm.

I'm trying to convince myself to get up and get my carburetor parts, and reassemble it. Not like I have anything else to do...lol

 

kirbster, get that damn carb back together!!!!

 

Hence the line- "we're supposed to cook them, not get cooked hunting them." Even the single head ceramic or whatever it is Harbor Freight heater head that mounts on top of the 20# bottle puts out a lot of heat. I've seen guys try and use them in a deer blind. I use mine in a very drafty 10x12 shed and it gets really warm in very cold weather and I don't dress for it. In a 4x4 stand, you can't turn it down low enough or get far enough away from it. I think maybe a golf cart heater or one of those real small head ones might work. What I've found works pretty well is a single burner stove top for one of those little bottles. And then you can always cook a little canned beef stew or soup on it if it's not warm enough!

 

Did you get her back up and running good yet? (the PC)?

 

@doug lol. That reminds me of an interesting wall-mounted propane heater that one of my uncles has. It's small but it puts out a TON of heat.

@greyghost LOL


I think next month I should have my truck back on the road. Next job on the agenda is to get that radius arm rubber donut replaced...I'm thinking of getting the polyurethane kit.