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On 5 Sep 2003 at 10:04, Steve Janninck wrote: > Hello Everyone. > Does anyone know what this Gas Heater Clock Indicates? > Type 3? > Rare? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33673&item > =2430610776 > > I have never seen one of these, I have a heater in my 71 Type 3 and this is > dated 1970. Yes, it's for a type 3, but I've never seen one, either, and I don't know how they work. I'm pretty sure they were intended to let you set your gas heater to run for some period of time after you started up in the morning, and then let the heater work off the engine heat after the engine was warmed up. What I don't know was whether the timer can be set, or if it just runs for a fixed amount of time which you can observe. There's only one setting knob, and that looks just like the one used to set the time, like all the rest of our clocks. There should be a tamper-proof seal over one of the 3 nuts on the back of the clockworks, and I see that this is missing. I don't see this as a problem. The seller, who is Charles Navarro, an occasional contributor to this list, probably opened it, as I would have, and lubricated the mechanism. If you buy it, it's probably worth asking what he lubed it with. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org