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Babington / Re: Oil pump?
« on: January 05, 2012, 06:07:37 pm »
I watched every video I came across on youtube before I built mine. None of them give any tips on how to tune them.

Most brag about how it is "smokeless" while operating. Mine looks like a coal fired train (except white smoke).

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Babington / Re: Oil pump?
« on: January 04, 2012, 05:45:21 pm »
Ok so I took the piston pump off, got rid of the 3 coils of 1/4 copper tubing that go around the burner for pre heating. AND IT WORKS now.....for tuning I've got to figure something out.

Im running 60PSI air and it smokes like a mad man.

Mine is in a 55 gallon drum on its side

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Waste-Oil-Heater-plans-Babington-no-drip-burner-/120832549267?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c222e6193

Looks VERY much like the one in this photo. If I plug off the 2" bung on the drum that you usually would access the contents through it chokes out the fire. If I leave it open I have a solid stream of grey/white smoke billowing out of it. Along with the 6" stack on the top is billowing smoke out of it.

I understand the flame needs oxygen to an extent to feed the fire. How is everyone feeding the fire? Do you have a fan blowing into the combustion area some how?

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Babington / Re: Oil pump?
« on: January 01, 2012, 06:27:04 pm »
Most of the oil is 15W40. I have roughly 2K gallons of it.

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Babington / Re: Oil pump?
« on: January 01, 2012, 06:25:54 pm »
It's 1/4" copper tubing. No kinks....although it coils around the burner tube to be used as a pre-heater.

The fuel tank is not vented but the heater unit it self is vented.  Im wondering if the piston pump isn't the wrong  kind of pump? I know I need more of a constant flow pump but couldn't find anything that would pump 2-3 gph. 

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Babington / Oil pump?
« on: December 31, 2011, 07:09:37 pm »
I've recently built a babington burner from plans I looked at online. I have a 15 gallon oil tank 3 feet above my burner which is located inside a 55 gallon drum that is laying on its side.

The problem I've had is that I first tried siphon feeding the oil into the burner since the oil tank is above the burner by 3 feet. That didn't work....

I have copper tubing going form the fuel tank to the burner. It does a series of 3-4 loops around my burner tube to help keep the oil coming in heated. I think that is where I was loosing feed pressure when I was gravity feeding.

Next I dropped some $$ on Murphy Machines MP-1 3 GPH waste oil furnace pump. I thoughts that would solve the issue because it flows the rate that I need. Well that does not seem to fit my need seing that its a piston pump I get inconsistant pressure. Each time the pump is on a return stroke my flame goes out. So my fire is ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF......

Any suggestions?

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