Junkman
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It would probably work, but be very smelly and smokey....
Waste oil furnaces
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It would be a BAD idea to try to use a salamander heater to burn waste oil. The burner in that type of heater depends on fine atomization of the fuel droplets to create clean combustion.
The viscosity of waste oil along with the heavy metals present in the oil would probably cause the heater to smoke and foul the burner if it would ignite at all.
All you'd probably get would be a gooey mess on the floor!!
The viscosity of waste oil along with the heavy metals present in the oil would probably cause the heater to smoke and foul the burner if it would ignite at all.
All you'd probably get would be a gooey mess on the floor!!
I found a old small fan, ran it on low speed and just put it in my air intake. Made a major differance in heat output and cleaner burn. photos attached show its results in stove. Can open stove with no smoke coming out. This is a draft induced burner. Will do some fabricating this week to make it look better. Also need to beaf up burner with thicker material.
Will keep everyone informed.
Will keep everyone informed.
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ealasimi:
The squirrel cage on that blower looks like it came from our house, full of lint and possibly cat hair.
I am following this thread closely.
I heat my shop with an overhead propane fired heater and the farmhouse with a pellet stove.
I have an abundance of drain oil as well as hydraulic fluid on hand all the time.
I priced a commercial waste oil furnace and the sticker about gave me a heart attack.
I usually cart my old oils to my day employers shop. They heat their commercial truck shop with 2 big units so they take my oil. I am thinking I should use it for heat at my shop.
The squirrel cage on that blower looks like it came from our house, full of lint and possibly cat hair.
I am following this thread closely.
I heat my shop with an overhead propane fired heater and the farmhouse with a pellet stove.
I have an abundance of drain oil as well as hydraulic fluid on hand all the time.
I priced a commercial waste oil furnace and the sticker about gave me a heart attack.
I usually cart my old oils to my day employers shop. They heat their commercial truck shop with 2 big units so they take my oil. I am thinking I should use it for heat at my shop.
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I have built the mother earth type unit, it worked ok. I changed the burner system. I am currently using a disk as the heated member. I drop the oil onto the edge of the disk an any droplet that is left spreads across the serface towards the center and is combusted. The efficancy of the stove went up and the smoking during startup was markedly reduced.
Here are some pics of my new burner. I used 8 inch steel pipe with a steel plate welded on top to make the funnel/cover. In place of the cast iron pans I made a dish out of 6 inch pipe with a plate welded to it. I drilled 3/8 holes in it instead of 1/4 inch. Below that is the 1 inch spacer and another plate as per the MEN plan. The bottom is a ring of 8 inch pipe and bottom plate to replace the bottom fry pan. The second pic is of the burner in the stove with oil starting to burn. I still have the fan in the intake. Tried it out, seems to burn much cleaner and have no visable smoke. Most of the combustion seems to be contained inside the cover. This is probably the reason for the lack of smoke. Heat output is very good, will try it for the weekend.
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Hey guys, be aware of chlorinated solvents ( non-flammable brakleen, ect) in waste oil. It will rust out you heat exchanger and anything else the fumes come in contact with. A friend has a transmission shop that he had a new waste oil burning unit installed. About one and a half heating seasons later the employees were complaining about burning sinuses and headaches. Yep , the fire box was shot. The dealer replaced the box under warranty but he lost a lot of new parts that rusted.
I have been using the new burner for about two weeks. By added the fan, the stove is producing much better heat. I replaced the steel pipe cover with a half of a freon tank as I had before. The steel pipe worked ok, but it was to heavy to move up and down when I needed to clean burner. I have built two extra burners, these should last me for the next two winters. I have no smoke coming from the chimney with the fan running. The inside of the stove and chimney are staying cleaner also with the fan running. I am using more oil when the fan was not installed, but I am producing much more heat. It has not been real cold (20 degrees), yet but I am having no problem getting my shop to 75 degrees. I have needed to shut down the stove because of over heating. The photo attached is showing the fan attached to the intake.
