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

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i tried something similar to list a long time ago, i think you need the pipe for the oil feed to be longer down your chimney that way  the oil would get hotter before dropping into your dish , maybe coiling it around a pipe first (fill with sand before bending it works well) extra heat for the oil and would need a quick blast of compressed air once a week/day to clear any debris, also the chimney i would put closer to your dish, get some flat sheet roll it up and put it inside your chimney letting go it should expand to be a snug fit and then lower it closer to the dish to create more of a draw that should heat things up, but not too close to the dish as this would cool things by having cold air pass the dish, hope this helps and if you dont understand and need pics i can knock some up for you , cheers nik

looks all very quiet on here now the weathr is beginning to pick up.........  :

 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

hi there ive been playing with babbingtons for a while, what you need is a car power steering pump, rigged upto a 240/110v motor, they are plenty powerful and can handle some debris in the oil, you only want it turning slow as they will pump quite a bit of oil, i had one off a ford escort and it works a treat, you cant slow the output or it will kill your motor so i did this in the pic below, as you can see the pump runs all day long with the same output, its happiest like this ( i know ive sprayed oil everywhere and cooked motors) and by adjusting the ball valve i can get the oil to either travel straight back to the sump via 15mm copper plumbing pipe or i can close it by a fraction and make the oil run down a length of car brake pipe to the babbington ball, i think a needle valve would be more precise with the flow control, but this works fine and like i said ive run this for 12 hrs straight and no problems at all, hope this helps

Had it running the other night, and the pipe with all the holes in it glows after about half an hour, and still no smoke but then all of a sudden, we had flames shooting from everywhere  , the oil around the domeheaded nut had caught fire due to the heat and it cocked up the atomisation i had going so i reckon a large washer over the oil, with the hole above the domeheaded nut should cure it. does anyone else play with babingtons? as its kinda lonely talking to myself i here