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User Projects & Pictures / Re: Drip system with hot air plenum
« on: January 18, 2010, 03:35:13 pm »
I compared last Decembers electric bill to this years, I save $201!! Thats just one month!!
I start the heater around 6 am and let it go during the day I check it when I come for lunch and several times during the evening. Before I go to sleep I try to estimate how much oil to pump into the tank so i can time when it goes out (around 4 am is perfect), that way it is cool enough to build a new fire by 6am. I added a transparent 5 gallon tank and a pump with plumbing to a 55 gallon drum on the otherside of the basement, no more filling jugs and filling that bucket!!

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Waste Motor Oil / Re: collecting oil
« on: January 12, 2010, 01:53:20 pm »
I have access to a few old home heating oil tanks that are still good plus a few 55 gallon drums. the 500 gallons is from 4 different people ranging from a few gallons to 300 gallons. now i just need to pick it up! I like the tanks in your pic are they expensive?

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Waste Motor Oil / Re: collecting oil
« on: January 11, 2010, 04:16:57 pm »
I bought a 12 volt pump designed for motor oil and gear oil it was$180 and burned up in 10 min. so I just won an old cessna hydraulic pump on e-bay for $13. I'm gonna try to build somthing with that if anyone has any ideas or experiance in this field let me know. I placed an add on craigslist for free waste oil and was offered almost 500 gallons in 3 days! now i need to work on some tanks but its to cold out and too much snow on the ground to be doing that kind of stuff now.

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Waste Oil Filtering / Sooty smoke?
« 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!

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Waste Motor Oil / Re: Burning different types of oil
« on: December 22, 2009, 11:43:41 am »
Thanks for the input guys!

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User Projects & Pictures / Re: Drip system with hot air plenum
« on: December 13, 2009, 06:02:26 pm »
I installed a new valve to control oil flow, just a simple 1/4 " ball valve. works much better, I made a sort of indicator gauge for it since very litle movement is needed for adjustment. Here is a few pics, I also added a pid which for the time being is just for temp but i would like to use it to control a pump I am planning on wrapping the heater with about 50 feet of 3/4 soft copper and splicing it in on the return side of my hot water sytem to heat my radiators.

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Waste Motor Oil / Burning different types of oil
« on: December 11, 2009, 03:41:38 pm »
I just got 30 gallons of used deisel motor oil, rotella. It doesnt burn nearly as hot as the stuff i've been getting from my mechanic buddy. which would be a combination of everything that comes out of a car, I'm going to add a little kero to help it out. Has anyone else had this problem when using one typ of oil? and is there any typ that works best?

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Waste Motor Oil / Black deisel
« on: December 10, 2009, 09:55:45 am »
  Does anyone have any experience with making and using black deisel? it looks promising. I'm thinking of getting a desiel truck and trying it out. They say you filter the crap out of the oil and then cut it with desiel or kerosene, and it is ready to run.

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User Projects & Pictures / Re: Drip system with hot air plenum
« on: December 08, 2009, 09:39:11 pm »
I think a chimney cap would help., to much snow on the roof might have to wait till spring!

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User Projects & Pictures / Re: Drip system with hot air plenum
« on: December 08, 2009, 08:06:20 pm »
when it burns good there is very little smoke, looks like a normal oil burner. do you mean a fan on the intake ?
thanks

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User Projects & Pictures / Re: Drip system with hot air plenum
« on: December 08, 2009, 06:38:26 pm »
I have noticed it runs best very hot, like 300 degrees.  sometimes if its windy out and the draft is not consistant it runs cooler and some oil pools up. And I have noticed one bad side effect when it runs cool, black soot falling like snow in my yard and on my cars, hopefully it doesnt make it to the neighbors house!

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User Projects & Pictures / Drip system with hot air plenum
« on: December 01, 2009, 11:30:20 am »
here are a few pics of my system

since I took these pics I added a bigger fan for circulation, and i just ordered a pid so i can monitor the temp with out running down the basement every half hour.

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Welcome Center / adding pics
« on: November 28, 2009, 11:56:21 am »
  could someone help out on how to insert pics? I would like to post a few of my contraption!
thanks

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Welcome Center / Hello!
« on: November 04, 2009, 07:30:30 pm »
  Hi, i just stumbled upon this forum and it seems very helpfull! I just built a simple drip system with a plenum around it and an intake in one room and vent in another room and it seems to be pretty darn good at heating my house. I will take some pics and post them in the next few days.

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