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Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:56 am
by BlakeinAlabama
Can someone tell me what the South Winds original heater might be worth?
Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:06 pm
by Bruce Fenstermacher
According to the IPC the original for our 170 from Cessna was a Stewart Warner.
Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:37 am
by hilltop170
Aircraft Heating and Electrical in Redding CA, (530) 246-4328, is probably the most familiar with them. You'll need the model and serial number plus they would probably need to inspect it to give an accurate value which could be anywhere from zero up. But, if you need a heater, they work very well when kept in good shape. I have used one for the last 11 years, the most resent use was two weeks ago. If fired up every month or so you'll have very little problem with them. Do not try to run mogas thru it though, mogas will destroy them.
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Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:47 pm
by blueldr
Richard Pulley,
I'm real curious. How does mogas effect South Wind Heaters? We used to have South Wind Heaters in all of our cab equipped Jeeps when I was up there in Fairbanks, AK, at Ladd AFB. They were installed in all of the enclosed military vehicles in those days. That was about sixty five years ago so maybe the newer ones are a different sort of an animal.
Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 5:33 pm
by bat443
I think it is a different kind of mogas. Wish we could by the kind of mogas they made 65 years ago.
Tim
Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 2:13 pm
by hilltop170
blueldr wrote:Richard Pulley,
I'm real curious. How does mogas effect South Wind Heaters?
Alcohol and residue. I suppose if you used the heater every day you could get away with it for awhile but let mogas sit for any length of time in those pot-metal solenoid valves and regulators and they will gum up and corrode. 100LL leaves no residue. When I inspect my heater, it is absolutely clean inside using 100LL.
Any Volkswagon guys out there still have a gas fired heater that works?
I used Texaco leaded regular for 20+ years in my C170 and C-180 with excellent results. That gas is gone.
BL- We can't get that magic mogas you guys in CA have (that doesn't do any damage) anywhere else in the country.
Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:34 pm
by c170b53
BL- We can't get that magic mogas you guys in CA have (that doesn't do any damage) anywhere else in the country.
There's lighting a fire and making some heat.

Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:03 am
by blueldr
In testing mogas for alcohol, we fill the test tube to the 10% line with water then fill it to the top with the mogas. We shake the test tube vigorusly and then allow it to settle out. The alcohol will then join with the water and show us how much alcohol is in the gasoline.
Since we don't want to get alcohol in the airplane, we now pour about 25 or 30 ounces of water into each gas tank, and then fill it with mogas. The airplane is then vigorusly shaken for about thirty seconds and then we go back in the FBO to take a leak and get a last shot of coffee. By the time we get back to the airplane, the water and alcohol has settled out in the tank sumps. We drain the sumps until clear gas comes out, strap the airplane to our ass, and off we go into the wild blue.
Believe me, Fellas, Flyin' is a lot of fun!
If it' cold enough to need a south Wind heater, we stay home and watch a dirty movie.
Re: Value of South Winds heater
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:24 am
by BlakeinAlabama
I didn't see any prices in those posts. Can someone tell me they have paid for them or what they have seen them go for in the past? A ballpark.