waste oil heater

[LBrown59]

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My next door neighbor A diesel mechanic was telling me that the shop where he works is heated with used oil.
Said they have A couple of storage rooms full of 55 gallon drums of the stuff.

























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[dmccarty]

cj7,

A TBNer built a waste oil burner year(s) ago. Might want to search under the Project discussion area. It was a long thead and he had lots of pictures.

Later,
Dan

 

[unreconstructed]

Back in the late 70's I worked at a place where we used crankcase oil to heat the shop in the winter. We mixed diesel in it and lit it with a cutting torch /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif. I would go home and blow black soot out of my nose every night--the thing wasn't vented to the outside. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Anyhow, it stinks to boot. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[CTyler]

Thats pretty bad....I'm amazed at what some people do. Your lucky your not dead.

Once you have one a burning a few minutes there should be no smoke. If it smokes you have to much oil, not enough air or a bad burner design. Shouldn't have any smell either.

 

[Highbeam]

Or was it just a bucket of oil. That sucker would smoke nomatter what you did.

 

[unreconstructed]

I don't know where the guy I worked for got the thing--it had
provision for adjusting air flow. He knew how to stretch a buck a mile long. Anyway, he propelled me to get off my rear end and go on to better things! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I wouldn't own a brand new JD 5302 now if I had stayed there breathing that smoke and working for scraps. Probably right, would have been dead meat. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[cj7]

thanks guys for the coments

yes I did search and found the old thread.

I think I am not going to build one.

Looking at a Potbelly stove

or WASTE OIL ELIMMINATOR from Northern. But I can not find much info that what Northern tells you.