Heating your shop

[Merlin68F100]

How is everyone heating thier shop? My 3 bay garage is attached but on a slab so running ducts from the main furnace is not an option I want to deal with. I have use a torpedo heater for the last few years and it works, but it is a bit loud and I have to make sure I have a few gallons of K1 on hand in case I want to play in the man cave while its cold outside. I'm thinking maybe an electric over-head unit with a thermostat and a blower might be the ticket. A wood stove would work but I don't want to give up the floor space for it.

[drytoast]

Do you really live in georgia? Here in pennsylvania we skip the heater wear multiple layers of clothes, hat, gloves and have coffee on hand.

[JWW]

Depending on how much room you need to work, you can hand some plastic sheeting and enclose your work area. Make sure you have plenty of venalation depending on how you heat your work space. Just my

[Merlin68F100]

Toast,
I did 5 years in Michigan's U.P. while in the Air Force. I grew up in Chicago where the "Hawk" had his whole family out. I have been cured of cold weather. IMHO everything north of I10 should be Canada
I like wearing tee shirts and jeans while spending quality time in my man cave.

[Merlin68F100]

Is Troy anywhere near Tionesta?

[drytoast]

Never heard of the place. Ahh, you do know what cold is. My brother lives in michigan and we pick on each other about who has the most snow or coldest temps. My family and I just came back from a week in florida then we stayed a couple of days in summerville sc near charleston, now I'm trying to get my wife to move down there. It spoiled me, t-shirt and shorts in feb. I keep telling myself why am I living in the arctic circle, I hate the cold. Good luck on the heat thing.

[Ranchero50]

I got a used 100kbtu hot air furnace last month for $200 and it is worth every penny. Uses a little over a gallon a day when it's cold out and set to 40`, heats the garage really quick when I do need it warmer. I needed it for the mill and should have bought it years ago. Plus I can put a cooling coil in and have AC this summer

Jamie

[71PA_Highboy]

Is Troy anywhere near Tionesta?

Nah... He is no where near Tionesta. I am....

Know of some good bumps there? I can always use some parts...

Regards,

Eric

[Merlin68F100]

I had a good bump there once upon a time.

[BiggMike]

If you live in the lovely U.P for 5 years then the little cold spells Georiga gets shouldn't bother you at all.

[1971fordcustom]

I have one of them house propane heaters that mount on the wall in my shop, 100 pound tank runs it. with the 100Pound I can lift it in the back of the truck and get it refilled

[Ranchero50]

I'm running five gallons of fuel to 2 gallons of waste motor oil. Any thicker and it doens't want to light off. I premix it into a 7 gallon fork lift propane tank and let the furnace feed off of that.

Jamie

[flyboy2610]

I had a good bump there once upon a time.

What was her name?

[Merlin68F100]

Gee, the name escapes me.

[FreakysFords]

4200 sq foot shop

1 30 gal water heater (was a gas heater but either will work, gas is easier)

a roller from a hesston 5x5 round baler (it's the intake, just pipe)

12" plow disc (holes welded up) burner surface

4 " flat plate full of holes (drill press) and a few bolts as legs (oil cooker)

80 gallon tank on stand (so I can gravity feed the heater)

ball type shut off valve (um to shut it off. ) and gate vale to adjust flow.

some heater duct to exhaust everything to the outside.


The thing heats the whole shop to being hot in freezing weather, with holes and cracks in the walls.


I'll try and rem to get some pics of it Monday.

You can find the plans on the internet for the DIY oil heater and pretty much figure out what's for what, but I added the plate with holes over the burner. It stays hot in the fire and helps get the next drop of oil cooking, thereby using less fuel and not sooting out the stack.

I've also got a 55 gal drum in the exhaust to keep a lil more heat in the shop, it's just a vertical mount that the exhaust from the heater goes into from the bottom and the pipe stops 6 to 10" from the top of the drum, the the new exhaust enters from the top and stops the same distance from the bottom. Serves two purposes, holds more heat in the shop and holds down the soot till the system warms up and starts to lean out (which is ideal burn). I've yet to put it on the heater @ the shop though. I've got one just like it @ the wrecker shop.

BTW, without the drum, the shop heater burns about 3 - 5 gals for a 10 hr day. For a smaller shop, this would be much less.