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On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Greg Merritt wrote: > I've never met anyone first-hand who's had a gas heater catch fire. > I usually here, "Gas heaters? They'll send your car up in flames." "Ever > seen it happen?" "No." I don't doubt that it *can* happen, but I haven't > come across a single first-hand anecdote of such a disaster. In some > sense, they seem like they'd be a lot safer than an internal combustion > engine (which burns very hot, and has steel flying around very fast to > boot!). > Hmm... A friend of mine who owns (oiy...) four Things, once told me of the time (last year, sometime, in fact..) when the gas heater in one of the white ones died....And he has the burned pants to prove it! Said he noticed a little smoke, then all the sudeen, this HUGE flame shot out on his leg....he turned it off real fast, and hasnt turned it on since...:) ...d -- David Raistrick '69 Westy-Itchigo keen@slurpee.net '66 Hardtop Westy in Augusta Ga Mike West's Pushing Back the Darkness Series: http://www.slurpee.net/~keen/west/darkness.html The Turning 40 Nostalgic VW Service Tour, and Search for the Beginning of Wind http://www.slurpee.net/~keen/charlie/charlie.html