Harold and Susan Vordos wrote:
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
. 3.70...
I dunno... I'm just a sucker for things that work, and try to find
"legitimate uses" for things that are just neat to have; so....


I stumbled across a VN-era gasoline "trashcan" immersion water heater in
NOS packaging for about $50 including shipping. Had to have it.

It arrived last night -- 50lb of iron, partly Parkerized, smeared with
cosmoline, and with the full step-chart tech manual inside.

It took me about a half-hour to refamiliarize myself with it and get it
assembled. Then it took another half-hour to bring a 32-gallon trash can
full of 50 degree water to a full rolling boil.

Just the thing for hurricane season power outages, for washing dishes and
bodies.

LLoyd

Memories of my six years in the Utah National Guard. My enlistment expired
in '62. As I recall, they are relatively simple devices, gasoline being the
fuel.

Surely, those immersion heaters must go back at least to WW II, eh?

We used them in both regular army and army
reserve. I got out in '73. We had C-rations
dated in the '50's