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

Hey Andy, nice project.  I see people viewing your post, but no replies.  Have you tried a mixture of oil and diesel?  I'm not much help here as you are a bit further on your project than I am.  Looks good what you are doing.  Keep us updated on your progress.  Thanks for posting!

Hello rawhoo.  Welcome to the forum.  Yes, us up here in the north country need heat... lots of heat!  Are you thinking a drip system, or pressure or siphon system with an electrical burner, such as a beckett?  You need to put some of that oil to good use!

Russ

Here are some pictures in the early stages.  Still have to replace the fuel line.  This was all I could get when I was in town.  Might deteriorate with contact with oil, I'm not sure.  Thats probably not the permanent mounting place for the filter either, it was just a good place to hang it.  I am building a garage heater that will just be used when I am out there, so I dont need a large holding tank.  5 gallons should keep it going while I am working out there.  My next step will be to get the block made for pre-heating the WMO.  I have been running #1 diesel in it and it warms things up in a hurry. 

Yea, I have kind of had mine on the back burner too since I got the pump fixed.  I probably wont do a loop system, just take it straight out of the bucket.  The garage is heated with electric and stays at least 40 degrees.  If the pump seems to be working too hard, I might try to warm it up a bit before it gets to the pump, will have to see how it goes.   I rigged up my 5 gallon bucket and have been running it on #1 diesel just to make sure it is going to keep working.  I still have to get my controller and cartridge heater ordered, then I will see if I can get the block built.  I will take some pics of the furnace in my garage and hopefully post them tonight.  Man, that furnace throws off some heat.  Cant wait to start burning free fuel!

Oh yea, Kyles system looks pretty good, glad he got you motivated again!

Getting ready to order my pre heater block temp controller.  I have been looking at the ones here:
http://auberins.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

From the looks of your pictures Kyle, it looks like you use these?  How do you like them?

I see some have a built in relay, and some with relay control.  I was thinking of the one with the built in relay would work and I wouldn't have to buy a separate relay.  Is there an advantage or disadvantage to either one?  I see that the built in relay is 10A which should be enough to power the cartridge heater.

Hmm... heater performance option.  Yes!  Everyone needs their heater to perform at its best!

Yes, a photo editor would be one option.  Or talk to the crazy guy that runs this forum and have him up the limit 
Is 500k enough?  If so, try it again.

The parts have been sold on ebay to a guy who seems to have quite a bit of experience with the drip system.  Thanks for looking.

Yea, I think I will just run one filter.  Screen it down to 100 micron before it gets into the holding tank.  My mount uses a PH8A filter.  Hopefully it will do the job.  I wonder if there is a longer filter that would fit on that mount?