Waste Oil Heater Forum - Your definitive source for burning waste oil for heat.
Waste Oil Heater => Waste Motor Oil => Topic started by: u1100l on March 23, 2019, 05:55:20 pm
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None of this is for a hobby or should be taken lightly. To see a big flame shoot out of a tube powered by WO or even WVO and say I can heat my... whatever, is reckless to say the least. The WO salamander heater I'm speechless.
It takes alot to get these to run properly. Please be careful. They will run away when you least expect it.
Waste oil holding/heating tanks,sketchy at best and should not be sold.
Don't cheap-out on Safety controls, limits, aquastats, heat exchangers.
The "burn what ever you want" is wrong. They do not self adjust to different oils.
Because making a flame in a drum dosen't mean you can put it in a heating appliance.
To do that is another set of rules.
A good 80% of these burners will burn down your house is second. The false information that goes along with them and the false sense of security is of great concern.
No new mouse traps have been made. Be careful and pay attention.