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Waste Oil Heater => Waste Oil Filtering => Topic started by: woodjointer on December 23, 2009, 12:14:10 pm

Title: Sooty smoke?
Post by: woodjointer on December 23, 2009, 12:14:10 pm

  Will filtering oil help reduce the dirty smoke from my drip system? I climbed up on the roof to install a chimney cap  and there is a ridiculous amount of soot in my chimney, I could have grabbed a handfull of it! It is light and fluffy kind of like the soot from when you start an acetylene torch with no oxygen. hopefully someone else encountered this, i realize drip systems arent popular around here but I am on a quest to pefect this one, lol!

Title: Re: Sooty smoke?
Post by: Russ on December 24, 2009, 09:11:52 pm

Hello,

Sounds like the soot may be the result of the fuel to air ratio not correct.  I suppose you might always get some soot, but it sounds like you are getting a little too much.  I cant say that I have any kind of soot buildup with my pressure system.  It is probably a little harder to perfect the air mixture with a drip system.  Maybe someone with experience with drip systems can suggest something to try.

Title: Re: Sooty smoke?
Post by: geo.smc on December 17, 2012, 06:52:33 pm

mine is exactly the same  :o :o

Title: Re: Sooty smoke?
Post by: geck0 on January 25, 2013, 08:38:30 pm

I just came to find this site for help for the EXACT same reason. I have a drip style i'd been using for a couple years and I can't seem to get away from the soot issues even exceeding 1000 degrees and double filtering. HELP this guy and me!