Waste Oil Heater Forum - Your definitive source for burning waste oil for heat.

with some sucess and some failures, ive purchased a chinese waste oil burner (bairan manufacture), it was £500ukp spent and came with everything i needed to retrofit this to any boiler, well ive built a hot air blower using all waste materials from my local junk/scrapyard, by using a propane gas cylinder on its side as the main furnace then an arrangement of pipes to make a heat exchanger/chimney, got a decent blower to get that air shfting 90 degree c air is lovely in my workshop, maybe a bit hot at times

Ive now dismantled the chinese burner down to nothing (my inquisitive mind), to see how it all works, ive tried to copy it without success, it would light but only if i heated to nozzle up, so tried to use nozzle heaters. But still though if our chinese friends can do it so can i. the part i needed was the nozzle, whilst any siphon nozzle works to an extent, the right nozzle makes it so easy, this nozzle isnt any standard nozzle, apart from having no markings or numbers, it also has 2 "o" rings, which no-one could identify, so i bought 1. £20 later it seems to flow far better,

got a couple of PID controllers, one as a spare the other to keep the oil at 85 degrees c in the header tank

Just bought a decent TIG welder (expensive toy), 1st job is a heated header tank  from 1mm stainless, went well, all done, 1 weld was dodgy  rest went well (first go at tig welding)

Sump tank with grid so i can do oil changes and leave filters to drain made, a couple of tiny leaks easily blocked up, now  to mount the header tank and get it working

im looking for a 6" barometric damper/draft regulator, you guys in america have these in abundance, here in UK we dont have any.... anyone willing to help me out cheers Nik

right im bloody cold in my workshop/shed, and so im going to be making a simple heater burning waste oil, so lets get the pictures going

this is the start


cut a hole in the top, which will be the bottom


Got me a brake drum welded up the holes, and amazingly it fits snugly onto the gas bottle,


More pics to come as i proceed

Now the cold weather is coming im sure this site will get going again, ive bought a needle valve to make a drip feed oil burner, ive a couple of beckett style burners, which if i ever get sorted which will be turned into a free heating source, anyways hello again

 obtained a washing machine motor, and a couple of brake drums (rear brake hubs??) and thinking of direct drive, hubs/drums are heavy though and bit worried by spinning them at 6000rpm, maybe cast an aluminium one and then get it turned down to get it balanced.......... we'l see pics to follow

 id like a topic/ heading on centrifuges,as i and im sure other will agree if we can clean the bits out of our waste oil(be it veg or motor) our fires will run smoother  cheers nik

Been in touch with Danfoss UK and they dont do them, even though they are made by hago/danfoss, so ringing Delavan in USA, not much help  , rang THERMOBILE (people who make a commercial equivalent of what we are doing on this site) explained my plight, was told nicely to go away they were NOT going to help,
so once i find someone who can supply me i will propbably buy a few and help out others on this site