Waste Oil Heater Forum - Your definitive source for burning waste oil for heat.

Old doesn't mean bad.

Reading the malady of melt-down during R&D leaves me curious.  If I remember correctly, aluminum melts around 800 F.
 - That alone makes it completely unsuitable for a burner plate.
What did Bucky finally use that would stand the heat produced?

I'm trying to dodge cutting a bigger hole (requires a new door, sealing, etc.) to use a cast iron Dutch oven.
 Because this is going into my house, cleanliness is mandatory.
  Fuel & fire must be properly contained with no black oozing onto the hearth.

When I was a kid in the cold & snowy mountains (1/2 a century ago), many folk used oil stoves with the fire contained & little or no chimney smoke visible.  Warmed to a usable constant viscosity, filtered waste oil should (should, I say) exhibit flow, burn, and heat production characteristics similar to #2 stove oil.

Rant off.  Fire at will.

hey Nick,

Here's that pulse-jet heater link I should have had for the above post
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http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/diy-small-space-heaters-zmaz86jfzglo.aspx
The current TMEN site makes articles a nuisance to read, but some are worth the hassle.
My apologies for the delay.
SHALOM!

Does the area smell like fried chicken now?
It did when I burned it in my truck.

SHALOM, Nick!

You might like this.  Or not.
While re-reading this thread, I remembered the "portable space heater" on my back porch.
It's a fume spewin' kerosene burnin' jet engine.
Well, OK . . . it ain't no jet engine, it just looks like a small brown one.
It ain't from space, neither, but it is portable.
It's rated 30,000 BTU output and needs a thorough clean-out 'cause it won't burn waste oil, as is.
It is slated for "one of these days" modifying to burn WMO.

Back when kerosene could be had cheap, TMEN built a drip kerosene heater for an Ecovillage greenhouse.
I used to have the 1-page article.  It's now SOMEWHERE on disc.
They made it from rain gutter downspout and hung it on a wall, intake down low, exhaust at the top.
It sputtered while burning, like early WWII German jets.
Happy Easter!

SHALOM!

Hey Russ...
Some Spam trash got in when you weren't looking.
  They be out of range, or I'd shoot 'em from the porch.
Ron

I'll ask next time Jeff calls from "out there on the Big Road," though I think we spoke of roughly 100+ psi on his system.
Where ever it tops, it's a somewhat less than spirited trip, yet plenty volume & psi to run an airbrush.

O no, sir.  Thank you.

Lest any would wonder,
I know how to blow-up things by accident; I'm an electrician.

Sure.  Why not?
I don't think it would be hotter than a small foundry.
 Expect to line things with fire brick and refractory cement.

With God, all things are possible.