Subject: Re: [airstream] New Kids to the List
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:53:24 -0500 (EST)
From: kribbsdh@webtv.net (Donald Kribbs)
Reply-To: airstream@airstream.net

Melissa, you have already heard about the cube heaters. If you have shore power, as in a trailer park, they will keep you comfortable enough unless you get into subfreezing, down low cold weather. Personally we like the Pelonis with its unique disc element. Costs more, but puts out a lot of heat because of the disc which having gotten hot, remains hot while drawing less electricity (or at least that has been our observation--and we have two of them, one for each Airstream.

You do not have propane getting to your furnace ("heater") or oven? But you do have the gas to your range? There would be a strong likelihood that you have a petcock (valve) in your gas line shut off if your range were not working. But it is still a possibility. The range might be feeding off of a different line than the furnace and oven. Look underneath your 'stream, find the gas line, and see if there is a valve in the line turned crosswise instead of being in line with the gas line. And if not underneath, look any where along that line -- trace it backward from the oven/furnace. That the furnace does not work would not be surprising: they are ornery and need to be serviced often. Is it possible, if you don't find a valve turned off, that the line might be stopped up, clogged in some way?

Anyhow, get on down here to Florida. We are at Port O'Call Airstream Park in Melbourne, on the east coast just below Cape Canaveral, east of Disney. Come on down and enjoy!

Donald
WBCCI #2875