Completed Homemade Propane Forced Air Heater

[01SnakeBite]

looks like a ricer muffler tip

[oilfield666]

i take my tiger torch and stick it into a tin 5 gallon pail laid on its side....throws out alot of heat. i prefer it more then my kerosene heater

[Davidbzm01]

thats find and dandy but your still breathing exhaust

[ab48726]

@Davidbzm01 Technically, so are you. It's just CO2 and H2O, the same things that we humans exhale. As long as it remains below a certain threshold and relatively free of CO emissions it is perfectly safe. I usually get headaches from heaters that put out CO and I can recall a few kerosene heaters that did.

[pclle]

@ab48726 just like a direct fired make up air for kitchen applications, it's 100%efficient lol,

[ryanthescooterguy]

Making heaters is very dangerous!

[andrew0901280]

how long does it heat with that twenty pond propane tank

[ab48726]

@andrew0901280 I'm not really sure, my tank was about 3/4 full when I started the project. After about 2 hrs or so of experimenting it was down around 1/4. Then I probably got about another 1 1/2 hours or so out of that. So probably somewhere around 4-6 hours at medium heat, of course you can crank it up higher.

[andrew0901280]

dang i was hoping for somthing a little more eficient but i like it

[ab48726]

@andrew0901280 of course that is putting out probably 150,000 BTU at least.

[andrew0901280]

oh wow ya so you could shut it down every noy and then and make it last

[pheenix42]

That is a GREAT idea! Any chance of putting instructions up someplace so us do-it-yourself types could make one? =)

[ab48726]

@pheenix42

Thanks! Follow the link in the info box for my forum thread about how I made it.