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Re: lv-ab: summary RV stove

From: Lee Haefele (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 06:17:12 EDT

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    If you need to get the boat resurveyed for insurance, or if you sell, will
    the surveyor write up the non marine approved stove? Will the insurance
    company make you remove it?
    As to the installation, will you install a normally off electric shutoff
    valve at the tank?
    Lee Haefele

    Subject: lv-ab: summary RV stove

    > RV stove in a boat?.....conclusion is a hands down winner...folks have
    > actually done this...way more than i would have guessed...as long as
    > it's not raining in the cabin very often, we can expect several years
    > of use...and i even received the opinion that, with a little care, 10 or
    > 15 years...that's it for me...i'm getting a new, 3 burner with oven for
    > about $350 and throw it away in 5 years....this list is great...thanks a
    > bunch...BTW, the two manufactures of RV ranges are magic chef division
    > of maytag and wedgewood by atwood mobile products...these two have over
    > 90% of the business now...also, i'm getting three 11 pound propane
    > tanks made by manchester...these are steel tanks, but are now powder
    > coated, which is way better than painted for our enviroment, at $43
    > each...they will reside in a false bottom deck box next to the
    > mast...doug
    >
    >
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