Model A heater

I used to sell the Peter's heater but gave up as I could no longer find the flex pipe in the correct diameter and flexibility. I have a few of the castings left if I ever find the right piping for them.
 

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Always be careful with E-bay sellers:

Heard one guy saw the E-bay Heater Ads mentioned above.

He scrolled down, sent the seller a non-refundable $195.00 money order for an E-bay Ad, (w/no photo), for an Enlarger instead of a Heater.

Got mad (2) weeks later.

The jerk mailed him a Magnifying Glass.

Anyway, what really got him mad was not that he lost $195.00, but the seller had the audacity to include Instructions that read:

Caution: "Do Not Use Enlarger While in the Sun"
 
J Franklin said:
I used to sell the Peter's heater but gave up as I could no longer find the flex pipe in the correct diameter and flexibility. I have a few of the castings left if I ever find the right piping for them.
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I think I purchased a heater kit from you some years ago and I didn't like the stiifness of the tubing supplied. I went to NAPA and found a more flexible aluminum tubing, a "carburetor pre-heater hose" 1 3/4 x 36 inches. I'm not sure if the ID number is BK825-6005. It looks and works great.
 
Here are a couple ideas that I haven't tried out, but hope to before it gets cold here. Using an Otwell or Auto-lite or similar manifold heater, modify the outlet end to a 90 deg. elbow and duct from that elbow to your choices of locations on the floorboard. There are several samples of floor registers from past posts and in the "Unauthorized Accessories" book. This will eliminate the need to cut a hole in the firewall. Then the problem still is that snow goes through the radiator and into the heater inlet, cooling the fins and exiting into the interior as a cool mist or fine rain. A remedy for this and at the same time making the heated air recirculate, would be to cap off the front of the heater and elbow it and run ducted air from a heater motor mounted inside the car to that elbow on the front. It would look dumb, but I think it would solve some comfort problems.
 
Well, I never had snow nor rain make it all the way through my Autolite heater, front of my engine doesn't even get wet when driving in the rain. Try looking into Dodge Brothers parts for sale-- All the 1920's Dodges used a hot air manifold heater that had an adjustable grate cut into the floorboard. I have the remnants of one here. The Dodge sedans also had duct work from that heater to go all the back to the rear seating compartment with a really cool looking round register in the rear floor.
 
J Franklin said:
I used to sell the Peter's heater but gave up as I could no longer find the flex pipe in the correct diameter and flexibility. I have a few of the castings left if I ever find the right piping for them.
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Any chance you will be offering these heaters again soon? A '29 Phaeton is a very cold place to be in the dead of winter in SW Idaho
 
My '29 coupe must have at one time had some sort of heater that came through the floorboard. Just behind the manifold, there's a hammered in area in the firewall, as if to make room for an elbow or ??????? (But NO firewall hole & the floorboards were replaced with new ones) Bill W. in SUNNY & 68 degree Kalifornia. NOT gloating, I just can't imagine what some folks are going through with such EXTREME COLD.
 
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My '29 coupe must have at one time had some sort of heater that came through the floorboard. Just behind the manifold, there's a hammered in area in the firewall, as if to make room for an elbow or ??????? (But NO firewall hole & the floorboards were replaced with new ones) Bill W. in SUNNY & 68 degree Kalifornia. NOT gloating, I just can't imagine what some folks are going through with such EXTREME COLD.
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yo dad sunny and 68 huh
how bout i ship you out this slightly used 1959 vespa scooter that just came in to get running... pink is cool

son
 

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I just installed a Peters Heater last week, and today took it out for a ride to test it out. My niece is getting married this Saturday and I was hoping to be able to supply a little heat in the Town Sedan for her ride to the church. The heater works OK, but I need a small fan that I can put over the floor register to suck more air through the system.
 
I just installed an auto lite in my coupe a couple of weeks ago. My wife is happy with it, It keeps her feet and legs Warm. I hated making the hole in the firewall, but it came down to a choice, Heat or aesthetics? Comfort won!
Terry
 
Done properly, the hole in the firewall doesn't look bad and the direct heat coming out of it is nice.

I will be re-using the autolite setup on my car when the time comes.
 
Looking at the Peter's heater how hard would it be to use copper tubing and and some copper sheet and solder up some thing to be similar to it. It wouldn't take much skill and after it got a little patina it would look like a period accessory. Anyone want to try? It's too cold here in Minnesota to go out in the garage. Happy New Year to all.
 
Ed Saniewski said:
I just installed a Peters Heater last week, and today took it out for a ride to test it out. My niece is getting married this Saturday and I was hoping to be able to supply a little heat in the Town Sedan for her ride to the church. The heater works OK, but I need a small fan that I can put over the floor register to suck more air through the system.
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Ed, I used a computer case fan over Minerva's firewall heater, it turned 1022 RPM on 6 Volt & doubled the air flow. Found it CHEEP, $1.94, on the internet. If you put long wires, you could just LAY it over your register. Billl W.
 
I used one on my T coupe but did not want to cut the floor boards either. So I plugged the rear of the manifold heater and cut a new hole in the side and ran a hose accross the head and down to the front corner of the cab. The heat comes up through the steel part of the floor. On the T there is already a hole there. Not sure on my A but if so I will be doing the same thing because it works fine.
 
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