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Harryk

On 6/23/11 5:58 PM, Harryk wrote:
On 6/23/11 5:50 PM, Richard Casady wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:30:22 -0400,
wrote:

On 6/23/11 4:25 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:26:44 -0400, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

In ,
says...

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:24:20 -0400, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

I did get co poison once, working at a site but I noticed as soon
as I
started to feel a bit "drunk" and got out.

If you get that feeling you are dangerously close to losing
conciousness and being fatally overcome.

Could be, my bud didn't think I was bad enough to go to the ER but who
knows, it was twenty years ago iirc... Took a couple of hours to feel
better in the fresh air that much I do remember. Never worked around a
salamander type heater again after that, no matter what the boss said.

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What is a "salamander type heater"?

I remember them as a fairly tall cylindrical space heater, fired by
kerosene. I remember them because when my father built his retail store,
he used a couple of them to help cure the concrete floor, which was
poured in the winter. I was just a little kid, but I do remember them
being referred to as salamanders. They were operated before the showroom
glass was installed...the store was open to the elements where the
windows and doors would go.

They gave off a hell of a lot of heat.

The put out 250 000 BTU per hour, more than most residental furnaces.
They will run fine of fuel oil or Diesel, but beware the sulfur.

Casady

I don't recall them being at the store for more than a couple of weeks.
Once the glass and doors went in and the furnace was installed, they
went back to wherever they were borrowed or rented from. I seem to
remember they were kind of noisy, too, with a loud hissing noise, but
that could be a false memory. Hell, it was 60 years ago, when my father
moved his retail store from downtown New Haven to a western suburb.

Sometimes I wonder why in the world I bother telling these stories, but
I hope everyone enjoys my ramblings.

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