Stumbled across this site and thought it might be right up my alley although it does look a little quiet here?
Seems I passed the entrance exam to be allowed in, never been through that to get in to a forum before. You guys must have some real good secrets locked away in here!!! :0)
I'm in Sydney Australia which means when most of you are freezing your butts of in god forsaken snow, I'm sweating like a pig and getting sunburnt. It also means I don't understand your out of date temperatures in o F, Whatever the heck that is nor do I have any comprehension of your standard units of length measurements, Football fields. We, like the rest of the civilized world work in units of 10 called the metric system. :0)
A thong here is a rubber sandal you wear on your feet, equally for blokes and sheilas, of any age from birth to death. It's NOT something that goes up the crack of your Klakka.
I make all sorts weird and wonderful burners most of which are ridiculously and impractically over-powerful. I like fire and being in control of it, what can I say?
If it's not doing 100Kw or 10L an hour, I can build one that will to relieve the painful boredom. So far the most powerful Burner I have built burnt goes through 38L an hour of oil or outputs 380 Kw and would do more If I can finally get my hands on something like a jumping castle blower. Or 2.
I have a Youtube channel under the same name where I show my exploits and have tutorials on building and operating different home made burners.
https://www.youtube.com/user/glumpy10/videosThe channel is for men and women who are into DIY and getting their hands dirty. If you are a whining safely zealot Nazi, it's definitely not for you. :0(
My belief is PPE is all fine and well but basically useless if your brain isn't engaged in the first place. Uncommon sense is the most important piece of safety gear in my book. Don't whine about me welding without gloves, it hasn't killed me or anyone else yet and I have no time for whingers that have never done so much DIY as nail 2 bits of wood together but think they have a duty to play mother hen on the internet to everyone that can.
The burners I make are designed for melting scrap metal to putting under your BBQ. I have used them for powering a water heater so I could have a hot shower when the electric one died recently to heating oil for processing to Biodiesel and just make big flames for the hell of it.
For my upcoming personal projects, I want to make an oil burning heater for the house that is located outside and circulates hot water through a radiator inside. I also have the heat exchanger from a boiler that was used to heat a council Olympic size pool and want to finally get around to setting that up to heat my own swimming pool. The HE is only rated at 200 Kw so I'll have to tame things down a bit so I don't melt the thing. That should give me a 20oC temp rise on my 70K L pool in about 12 hours.
I have also been running my Vehicle on used Veg oil for over 10 years now and I'm pretty familiar with that as well although I go against the grain of about 90% of what is preached with that because it's basically rubbish that people parrot and follow blindly without ever testing. I have and base my opinions and practices on demonstrated fact not what the last guy said who followed what the guy before him did who followed the guy before him and.....
I have misspent a lot of my time following oily and often smokey pursuits and I hope to be able to contribute here and help some people avoid making the same mistakes I have and leverage their learning curve while being able to learn some things myself.
OK, now I have cured your insomnia, you can wake up now and go back to your regular Viewing.
Have Fun guys!
OB.
