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no, day one trying it out i just had the pump sucking from the old bucket and then pumping back to where the old bucket/ball valve use to drip oil to my feed tube. 

eventually ill clean up the setup and just have the pump pull from a tote.  i didnt have enough of the hose i needed and really just wanted to test it out for a few weeks before changing my existing setup thats been working for 4 years. 

added an electronic pump to my setup today.  hoping for 60$ it lasts and doesnt fall apart. 

was really nice to have nice steady oil flow all day today in the shop. 

back at it for 4th season.  installed new flew pipes and cleaned out my furnace / heat exchanger last week.  Nice to have a bucket truck now and not killing my self on a 40' ladder.    no changes this year in burn pot or blower.  probably will need to fab up a new burn pot mid season as it has a few pin holes in it.  have about 400gals of oil processed and ready so far for the season. 



id really love to build a waste oil boiler system that lives in a spare 2 car garage i havr (block building / metal roof) that i dont use to feed hot water to my house and my barn.  let that baby rip from OCT to MARCH and just make heat.  def plans in the works for next year. 

next mission is to make quieter.  tried a 50CFM blower for forced air.  too small.  Air matress blower pumps are too loud and im on my 4th one. 
 
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Back at it.  fired up the furnace after some upgrades and flew seemed plugged / restricted. 

inspected / replaced flew today after getting materials, found completely blocked with huge birds nest.

all good now and put about 5 gallons through it tonight with no issues. 

burned through second wine chiller bucket from amazon. 

finally welded up my own out of 1/16 stainless.

made it as big as i could to get it to wedge into the barrel stove door. thicker and 10"x10" 


thing rips.   first burn inspection tomorrow.  it glows orange nicely.  and cooled down way faster once oil was shut off.  not sure what that means.  im thinking it was a much cleaner burn. 

im still holding 30 degrees above outside temp in my 36x60 shop area with only the roof insulated in 3" foam.  couple more weeks and should be past the worst of the winter her in good old NY. 

just had another 100 gallons dropped off for free from buddies wednesday.  loving it. 

i have found its super hard to take a good video.  as soon as i open the door, the flame goes super rich from extra secondary air.  cant get phone to focus on good burn though the small drum hole.   when its going good it really does have a nice vortex swirl flame with nice even bright yellow/ white fire.   

i have played with cranking air and cranking oil, it seems to be the best with about a gallon per hour and my air pump at 1/2 speed (whatever that means with a router controller)    i had a larger bounce play house blower but it fried in 2hrs from too low speed from the router controller.  i read of warnings on the internet some AC motors over heat from the cheap speed controllers not being frequency based.   the 10$ amazon air pump is still running like a champ at any speed for a few weeks now, and i have a new spare one on the shelf. 

my main problem with increasing the air, is it starts to over pressure my system faster than it can run though the flew, then smoke or fumes comes out through the barrel stove secondary air ports below the main door- no good. 

air tube and oil tube into the side with slightly down ward angle was really my first attempt and experiment.  i know there is much room for improvement.  i guess if the next change i get less soot with same heat i am improving.  looking for a larger stainless steel bucket while Christmas shopping for sure this year.

i have about 200$ into the stove and a 2-3 nights of fabrication.  not really a big deal for the metal work on hotrods / races cars / offroad trucks i usually get into.  i am way past expectations so if i had to start over completely tomorrow i would not be devastated. 

about what gallon/hr are you running at?