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Hehe... it is a sales pitch.  I think I got that information from their website.  I was just trying to get some information on the forum for search engines to pick up.  Interesting comments you have on it.  Sounds like a well built commercial furnace.  Thanks for the input!

Welcome Bucky.

Sounds like you had some good adventures with your heater.  Its a little slow out here during the summer months, but hopefully when the heating season comes there will be some more people out and about here.

Thanks for joining and I look forward to reading more!

Russ

Anyone out here?

Welcome Gorram!  Its always good to hear from our neighbors to the north!!

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with a drip system so I cant really answer your questions.  Now that the heating season is about done, the site hasn't had much for visitors, but hopefully someone will be able to help you out.

As far as filtering the oil on a drip system, I wouldn't think you would need to as long as it is relatively clean.  You could run it through a 5 gallon pail strainer just to be sure there is nothing big in there.

Not sure what to say about the ball valve.

Good luck on your heater!

Russ

Hey Kyle, good to see you out here.  I did get a chance to fire it, but havent had time to report.  I mixed up a 50% mix of WMO and diesel and started to warm up the block.  I ran the block at about 100 degrees F and it burned perfectly!  After most of that was burned up, I added more oil.  I am guessing it has to be very close to 100% now.  It is burning very well!  No smoke from the stack at all, just heat coming out.  I notice that when I start the heater it makes a "woof, woof, woof" sound for about a minute until the chamber heats up.  After about a minute it evens out and burns just as if it were HHO.  More information and pictures hopefully in the next few days.

I will have to get everything tightened up and adjust the location of the tip and then I will get it running on diesel again.  After it is running good, I will hook up the PID to the heater and start mixing used oil and see how that goes.

And after modification.

Sounds like good news Andy!  Glad to hear you have some good flame going on.  Sounds like the oil probably just wasnt getting hot enough.  I think you are on the right track with building a nozzle heater like the siphon one you have seen on ebay.  Getting that oil hot right up to the tip would be a good thing.

What kind of anti dirp nozzle are you using?  Sounds like a good idea to prevent dripping.

I took some pics of the almost finished block heater for my burner.  Check out the pics for some ideas.

Keep up the good work.

Russ