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Waste Oil Heater => User Projects & Pictures => Topic started by: Mattpar on October 16, 2014, 08:53:56 pm
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While I'm building The Little One, I started on My Big One. MENS style out of a 40gallon gas water heater.
Here is where I am at. Tank skinned( saving the outer shell for a heat shield), 8x8in door opening, middle intake tube cut.
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door cut. Used a Cutting disc to start the cut, then used a Saws All to continue the cut. The Harbor Freight metal bit lasted longer than expected but I still had to go out and get a Lenox? blade to finish it up.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Pstrkd4brthcntrll/photo21_zpsaeebfbb2.jpg)
pipe cut for iron pan. I wanna make the height between the air inlet and iron pan adjustable, I think I will make a platform out of a piece of steel with a threaded rod and have a nut welded so i can just spin the platform and it will adjust the height of the pan.
I got the hinges and latch for the door, gotta get time to put them on. Picked up hardware for the drip feed. Then get the stack figured out.
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Progress! Got the door put on, alittle more hack job than i wanted, but eh, well see how it works. I'll get pics later. Ran out of rivets. Had to use some screws. I'll replace them later when I snag more rivets
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So far so good. Keep up the good work!