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Waste Oil Heater => Fuel Pre-Heaters => Topic started by: tightwad nik on September 30, 2012, 01:30:11 pm

Title: Back here now the weather is cooling off, but i have a question
Post by: tightwad nik on September 30, 2012, 01:30:11 pm

ive made me a heater, got the resevoir running at 90 degrees centigrade, but without a nozzle heater it wont stay lit easily,  if i blowtorch the feed pipe it bursts into performance, but where do you guys get your cartridge element from, and did we work out wattage??? oh and what dimensions are they

Title: Re: Back here now the weather is cooling off, but i have a question
Post by: doug on September 30, 2012, 08:43:12 pm

Nik,
 ckBurners has one $40, http://www.ckburners.com/kits.html I don't how pricey it would be to ship to the UK.
doug

Title: Re: Back here now the weather is cooling off, but i have a question
Post by: tightwad nik on October 01, 2012, 02:20:40 pm

im looking to buy my cartridge element from hong kong, just wanted to know actual size and wattage, think i can build it cheaper than CK, but cheers Doug

Title: Re: Back here now the weather is cooling off, but i have a question
Post by: doug on October 02, 2012, 09:28:08 am

Nik,
Without tearing mine apart I'm guessing it was about 1/4" or 5/16" diameter and close to 5" long and somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 watts.
doug

Title: Re: Back here now the weather is cooling off, but i have a question
Post by: tightwad nik on October 02, 2012, 02:45:16 pm

been on ebay and bought a tepperature controller and heater elements etc, just need some time to build it