"Stormin Mormon" wrote in
:


There is quite an odor filling the thing especially when you
overfill it
because it is such a PITA to fill it you want to get all you
can in it...

CY: The smaller ones run about 12 hours on a fill.

That was my experience.


You
have to go out to the garage or out building get the can of
K-1 and the pump
and bring it inside...

CY: The radiant heaters typically have a "chicken feeder"
can that lifts out. Still, it's guaranteed kero smell.

outside..Doesn't help...Still stinks...SWMBO still
whining...ALOT of fun
doing it with a flashlight as well....

CY: Strap on head lamp works well.

And they smell when they run low on
fuel or run out...They also smell worse when set on
low..There is always a
kerosene smell in the air and on your hands..

CY: AGreed. alwys a kero smell.

Not suppose to let it run out. That's called burning the wick out to
clean it of residue...so it doesn't develop smell while burning normally.
Instructions tell you do do that. Instructions? They come with
instructions?!


Oh , and I don't believe for a
minute that you have used your heaters for any length of
time for "a few
years" and never had to trim or replace a wick...Horse
Hocky....Used to have
one YEARS ago...

CY: Replace wick every year.

NASTY things.....For emergency (NO POWER) use I have a
double burner propane radiant heater that just screws on a
grill propane
tank....MUCH better but too expensive to use on a regular
basis unless the
homeowner is buying the tanks on the jobsite..LOL.....

CY: Propane is much cleaner.




Haven't run one in 4-5 years. It was a buck.69 then.

Pets love 'em. Never had one complain about the smell.