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Old 12-17-2007, 05:34 PM
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Has anyone come up with a way to pre-heat cylinders at the lake yet with just carrying a feild box?
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just an idea but I have used a salon quality hair dryer(the misses be pissed if she knew!) to pre warm it up so the SV starts easier down here in FL dont know anything thatll run off of 12v that could do the same
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I was thinking using hot water but that would only be limited as to how much you could boil and carry from home in a thermos, plus wondering if that would be enough to do it cause that would just warm up the head button basically - most are still finned without a jacket leaving most of it still cold. I dont think pouring boiling hot water on a motor would be a good idea either. I am thinking more of a heat tape kind of thing but those take quite a bit of amps.
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I have a nice 4000watt inverter i use to power a heat shrink gun, warms my engines to 155*f in no time, iv yet to try it on my big motors but im sure it works fine.

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