[TheForge] Gas heater question

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Andy: thinking back to when natural gas came to Cambria years ago, the gas company crew came through and drilled out the jets on the gas appliances to make the conversions.

On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:05 AM, Larry Brown wrote:


Is the gas jet removable?  I remember when I was down there, the one we had a brass cap with the hole in it, if so you might be able to make a few replacements. Check to gas lines feeding you, where I was the gas pipes were on top of the ground and could freeze up and stop sometimes, usually at night. We would shut off the gas when sleeping as the heater had no safety. One good thing about not having plumbing...

Larry Brown


At 08:37 AM 11/20/2013 -0500, you wrote:
> Because we have gas wells and all the free gas we can burn, I am installing gas heaters in various locations in the house.  The 10' deep pit I dug under the house (was a 2' crawl prior) has two large openings to the outside air and the bedroom was cold last night.  I will install a heater temporarily and plug the holes as best I can for now, but I doubt that will suffice when it is 10* out. My question is this: I have one more gas heater on hand - a wall unit I picked up at auction on the ultra-cheap - but it is jetted for propane.  Can I re-jet for natural?  If so, can I just drill out the existing jets or does it behoove me to buy factory   made? Since this isn't a gas forge and I am not in the mood to burn down a second house, I want to be more certain of what I am doing. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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