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Junk - without filter!
If you decide to buy this heater - buy an optional filter if you plan to use a 20lb propane tank! If you use the canister 1lb tanks - it will only heat for a few hours. <
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>My heater clogged up after two nights of use - sure it was great and kept our Aliner camper toasty - but $129 for two nights warmth? After that it clogged up and lit intermittently - the warranty is not good - so I finally put it in the trash - great heater if used with optional filter - jeffreylors@yahoo.com

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Works well...But arrives without essential parts.
Here's what you should know BEFORE you buy this thing. It is inefficient, expensive, and environmentally lousy with 1 lb disposable cylinders. If you are planning to use a 20lb propane tank, be aware that you can only get near the 220 hour (at low) performance by using 2 tanks. The heater has 2 regulators, 2 heating tiles, and 2 connections. At low and medium settings you will only use one of the `tiles'. On high, both tiles will burn brightly. The fan is noisy and sucks down D cell batteries, but really doesn't move much air. There is also the AC adapter option: Radio Shack sells it for about 18-20$. Mr. Heater Customer Service can provide the part numbers but cannot sell you the item. When you talk with them, you might as well order the fuel filters ($9.95 each) that you will need if you use 20 pound tanks. For 2 tanks, order 2 filters. The filters are a (moisture/impurity) trap that prevents the tiny holes in the heating tiles from filling up with junk. Propane may be equal at creation, but one never knows how it has been stored. Use the filters. If you use 20 lb tanks, you will also need hoses. Mr. Heater makes them in 5 and 12 foot lengths. Amazon seems to have the best price on these. You should expect to spend $100-$150 above the price of the heater for hoses, tanks, filters, AC adapter. <
>Feeding the rumor mill: There was a Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall of this item during the Winter 04/05. It impacted all heaters sold prior to about January 10, 2005. The problem concerned a potential malfunction of the regulator/control valve assemblies. My first heater was affected by the recall. I had no use of it for the winter of 04/05. My second heater works just fine. <
>Amazon Customer Service: EXTREMELY POOR as it relates to this purchase. I purchased my heater days before the recall was announced. Amazon refused to accept my return of this item even though it had not been used. They also took down product reviews alerting customers to the recall (and potential safety hazard) of this item. After numerous polite but fruitless conversations, I contacted the President of Amazon with my complaint. He has chosen to ignore it. I would probably buy this heater again despite the problems. I would never buy anything from Amazon again because of the problems. <
>Variations of this review have been deleted by Amazon 4 times.

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Amazon.com stuck it to me...........#%&*%#......thanks alot.
Amazon.com conveniently cut the price on this "beaut" of a safety hazard 2 weeks before the pending safety recall. I guess it was more important for them to clear their shelves of this fire-bomb of a liability than to be "man enough" to hold the manufacturer responsible. This lack of social responsibility is major scary. It makes one wonder what other stunts they've pulled in the past. Maybe I should unload their stock, before someone sues them because their house burnt down because of this heater. <
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>Mine NEVER WORKED RIGHT FROM THE START. ALL PREVIOUS REVIEWS ARE DEAD ON ACCURATE. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THIS REVIEW, JUST GOOGLE MR. HEATER "MH18B RECALL", & READ ABOUT THE FISHERMEN THAT HAVE BEEN ENDANGERED OR LITERALLY ENGULFED IN FLAMES BY THIS PRODUCT. <
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>DON'T EVEN BUY THIS ITEM IF IT IS DISCOUNTED, OR USED, AT ANY PRICE! <
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>I hope this review gets NOTICED......the last review of this bad product was DELETED by Amazon. In fact, the product itself (MH-18B) "MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED" from their website! (Imagine that!) <
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