180 Storage Mod

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This is a pic of a mod of seen various places, usually on 179/180 models. I was considering doing this to my own 180, even bought cedar for the drawer body and aspen for the front and planed it down. Then I decided to do some checking before I started making sawdust. With the furnace running, I took some temperature readings of the un-modded space under the bed.

Here's the furnace temperature right at the warning label:

On the floor in front of the running furnace:

Directly above the furnace:

Probably best not to modify the area in and around the furnace. This mod is now off the table for me.

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HuronSailor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Location: Owosso MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 704	Topic: 180 Storage Mod Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 8:32am
	This is a pic of a mod of seen various places, usually on 179/180 models. I was considering doing this to my own 180, even bought cedar for the drawer body and aspen for the front and planed it down. Then I decided to do some checking before I started making sawdust. With the furnace running, I took some temperature readings of the un-modded space under the bed. Here's the furnace temperature right at the warning label: On the floor in front of the running furnace: Directly above the furnace: Probably best not to modify the area in and around the furnace. This mod is now off the table for me.
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voisj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 19 Jul 2016 Location: San Luis Obispo Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:07pm
	Huronsailer, I designed a heat deflector that worked well in my 180, no drawer though. You could probably combine the two ideas. Here's the link to the OP and a video. Their's even a template to make it in the link, so far I know of 4 others that did it and they seem happy with the results. (now i need one of those fancy thermometer things!) Rgds John
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