portable heaters, what's a good one ????

I just went into PA and asked if they had any buddy heaters left.

Girl at customer service told me they had them 50% off and they all flew out the door!

Back to YouTube to find out how to heat with tea candles! lol

Amazing. And PA had a reasonable price to begin with compared to some others . . .

How did you go about disabling the tip sensor?

My 1lb propane tanks keep freezing or something that I don't get to use the full tank. So I almost need to carry 2 or 3 and keep changing them. I've raised the heater off the ice and still get the problem. It happened on a construction job too. No ice, just the wooden subfloor. Still froze. Had to switch tanks and thaw the frozen one. PITA!

The P auto I was in today had three little buddys, $129 nothing 50% off.

How did you go about disabling the tip sensor?

You have a pm!

I love my buddy, it does really well on gas and easy to carry.

Raise it off the ground like 8 inches so it heats better.

This is my little heat up rack.

You get these in the paint department, is for rollers or brushes to sit on for tubs of paint.

I use the buddy heater in Eskimo qwikfish 2 nice n toasty gotta take off layers used it a few weeks ago in my other hut a rapala base camp wasn't to hot but we weren't cold either in -26.
Paid about $90 4yrs ago before I found out about P/A just shop around good luck !

Wall Marts got them on sale for $80 bucks.

Best heater you can get! My big buddy never let me down!

I picked up my buddy heater at PA for 64 dollars was happy to get that price the next cheapest was 99

I notice that on really cold days i need to shake the cans to get em flowing.

I swing the can back and forth while on the heater to swish the liquid propane around. Some days i need to do this when it gets to about 1/4 full.

I am wondering if maybe there is something in the feedline????

Is it that on the 'really cold days' the propane is starting to freeze inside the can - going through phase change liquid to solid - via slush.

By moving the can around - you could be breaking the surface skim - allowing more propane to vent off from liquid into gas? More surface area for it to slowly release gas?

That's why a larger 20lb tank - in same temperatures - doesn't have same problem as the surface area within the tank is much larger so allows more area for the gas to 'flash' from the liquid - for the same flow rate of gas . . .

If were me - I'd likely set 1 spare 1 pounder in front of heater (not on top) to heat it up a bit before attaching to buddy heater. Perhaps they need to be insulated from the outside cold with some sort of sleeve - such that if starting warm they cool only by the liquid inside flashing into gas.

Another thought to warm up a very cold tank - submerse it (attached to something) in a fishing hole. While the ice and surface are far below zero - the water is a couple or so degrees above. Just be sure that top of can is dry from water before reattaching to buddy heater . . .

Perhaps on the really cold days - if using 1 lb tanks - as an poster on an earlier thread suggested - leave at home and instead bring a naptha / white gas stove or lantern. white gas / naptha doesn't chill itself in its tank as liquid propane does. the white gas is fed into the system as liquid and freezing temperatures are even lower than propane . . .

thanks

I have to update my reply, went out fishing after three nights of -35 ,full tank outside in the flipover. Got two hours of heat and my 11 lb tank was frozen. No heat on a cold day is not good. Packed up, came home and thawed out the tank. Next day all was good again. The heater did sputter for a half hour but smoothed out after that.

Thanks for the feedback. It's nice (not really but for a lack of a better term) to know that I'm not the only one experiencing the freezing canisters. It is indeed on the really cold days. I do raise the heater off the ice and try to keep the propane warmish. Sloshing around helps too. I guess it's just the nature of the liquid propane to gas. Oh well. Heater works great when it works. Thanks again.