Do you heat your garage to work on your bike in the winter ?
#35
11-04-2010 | 08:26 PM
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I've been running one of these 6000 watt (http://www.king-electric.com/prodtemp.asp?prodID=KBP) ceiling mount electric heaters with a fan and thermostat.
I have a typical 2 car garage, uninsulated, with the 4 motorcycles parked along the sides of the cars. I also put a good sized walmart box fan directing air down from the rafters (because my rafters are exposed, and without the fan the heat rises to the rafters). In very cold weather (15 F), I can easily keep the garage in the 60's (above that it's really too warm to actually work on anything). At 0 F I supplement the electric heat with shots of Black Velvet.
You need a 220 circuit to get the full wattage out of these things (you can select the wattage depending on what you can make available in your garage).
These heaters are available in places like Home Depot or Lowe's, and they're made in the USA, right in Seattle, by an American company that's been building them for years.
I have a typical 2 car garage, uninsulated, with the 4 motorcycles parked along the sides of the cars. I also put a good sized walmart box fan directing air down from the rafters (because my rafters are exposed, and without the fan the heat rises to the rafters). In very cold weather (15 F), I can easily keep the garage in the 60's (above that it's really too warm to actually work on anything). At 0 F I supplement the electric heat with shots of Black Velvet.
You need a 220 circuit to get the full wattage out of these things (you can select the wattage depending on what you can make available in your garage).
These heaters are available in places like Home Depot or Lowe's, and they're made in the USA, right in Seattle, by an American company that's been building them for years.
#36
11-04-2010 | 08:29 PM
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No - It's a Brunswick Balke Collender 4 piece slate table. It was allegedly made sometime between the 1870's-1880's according to a Brunswick expert that contacted me to see if I wanted to sell it. I got it as a birthday present forty-five years ago after it sat in a storage facility for fifty years.
#37
11-04-2010 | 08:30 PM
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I have a 24x32 garage with 10' ceiling and no insulation.I use to heat it with a 12k btu heater.Little insulation but walls,attic floor and roof are 3/4 plywood which helps.The propane heater would eat bottles if I spent any time out there.Put a 2ton heat pump in and it costs only 30-40 a month in the dead of winter here in north Ga.70* in a matter of minutes is nice.Great in the heat of summer,I can program the thermostat to cool before I get home.It's nice rolling into a cool garage when it's 95 out.G.
#38
11-04-2010 | 08:31 PM
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No - It's a Brunswick Balke Collender 4 piece slate table. It was allegedly made sometime between the 1870's-1880's according to a Brunswick expert that contacted me to see if I wanted to sell it. I got it as a birthday present forty-five years ago after it sat in a storage facility for fifty years.
#40
11-04-2010 | 08:37 PM
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It ain't for sale. 
My dearly deceased father bought that for me for my 13th birthday for $200 and thanks to that table and the movie Minnesota Fat's - I pretty much drank free for twenty years at the bar tables - but I haven't had a drink in twenty one years.
My dearly deceased father bought that for me for my 13th birthday for $200 and thanks to that table and the movie Minnesota Fat's - I pretty much drank free for twenty years at the bar tables - but I haven't had a drink in twenty one years.