"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Dave Stadt wrote:
"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote

Do a google search on the Janitrol heater. It's the one which used to
leak carbon monoxide in such quanities that I had the choice of flying
with a blanket or flying with a headache. It drew fuel directly out of
the wing tanks on the PA-23. Many light twins used it... and some not
so light: the C-47 had one too.

I was not aware that VW's ever used janitrol heaters. I know of their
use in aircraft, and all of the problems they can cause.

I'm simply amazed that a car would have one of those "creatures." What
ever happened to VW simplicity? The good old heat muff? Of course,
their problems are well know too, but at least they don't involve
flammable liquids!
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Jim in NC



Even the Beetle offered one as an option. The standard heater was a
joke. I spent a couple of winters in the late '60s with a brand new
Beetle with the stock heater and after that I will never own a Volkswagen
product. We used to open the windows in below zero temperatures to warm
up.

You won't buy a VW product today because of the heater design of a car
they designed in the 1930s? Wow...

That's right. If they built the things from the 1930s to 1968 and still
couldn't get the heater to work that's fatal in my book.

I guess you don't fly aluminum airplanes either or those powered by a
Lycoming or Continental... :-)

Rag wings but the rest is aluminium. Continental is OK but not sure about
Lycoming. Would prefer round as those flat ones are still wet behind the
ears.

Matt