Waste Oil Heater Forum - Your definitive source for burning waste oil for heat.
Waste Oil Heater => Links => Topic started by: Russ on December 06, 2008, 02:36:53 am
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I believe this was published in The Mother Earth News back in 1980:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me4.html
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I have tried this version with many others, with only bad results, Heats like hell but will NOT clean up, I've done @ least 12 different versions of the burner plate and @ least 3 diff changes on the draft tube....always black!!!!!!
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I was in search of an old hot water heater to do this project, actually the sanders modification, but I'm thinking the pressure or siphon system is a better way to go. Do you get a clean burn out of the exhaust but lots of black ash in the heater? Is the drip method even worth trying?
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there's so much Black out the pipe that it tassels together and floats down like little black feathers, it is not a pratical way to burn oil (and the neighbors won't like ya either).
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Wow. I guess I will probably scrap the idea of the drip system. I had a friend make me a nice conical burner out of aluminum a while back. I will post pics of it and if anyone else wants to experiment with it, I would sell it for less than I have in it.
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don't let me discourage you, please try, all minds think differently and maybe you'll find that "sweet spot"