Topic: waste oil burner

[faux fiddy]

This thing has been in the works for years now, and last years efforts to put it online fell short of being used before summer. I'll have to take a cover off to show the heat exchanger underneath the cover.

The door is going to be a flywheel off a 2002 bmw wallered out to hold a sight glass so we can see the flames inside.

We used to say it looks like a piece of  space junk.

[faux fiddy]

Here's the glass operation.

[seanbarney41]

built it yourself?...very cool  errr hot I hope

[faux fiddy]

That's my friend turning the door for it.    His brother  that does pressure vessels and heat exchangers for the gas industry welded it up a couple years ago, but I like to say it just fell out of the sky. I'll have to pull the cover off to show the heat exchanger. We're thinking about cutting a hole  in the cover and putting a small fan in to attach a dryer vent to so we can duct heat to a workspace under a car or wherever.  This is a prototype, and some day there may be one with forced air and foundry features.

We test fired it outside a while back when it was outside and it seems to heat up pretty well.

[faux fiddy]

He was going to cut off the outside but I suggested the ring gear has a  cool recycled look so I think it stays.  Besides that , cutting it off is extra work. What do you think?  The pressure plate studs will be perfect for attaching the hinge.

[Pecantree]

Brass plate it, put a steam whistle on it and sell it for big $ as steampunk!

Seriously though I'm impressed. Keep us updated!
Steve

[heffay]

One of our buddies that we ride with at the dunes builds and sells those for 75 bucks a pop.  He brings several out every dune trip and they are sold instantly, they are awesome.  They are a bit more refined looking than yours and probably a LOT lighter, but heat is what we're after here, right?  Nice ingenuity.

[faux fiddy]

One of our buddies that we ride with at the dunes builds and sells those for 75 bucks a pop.  He brings several out every dune trip and they are sold instantly, they are awesome.  They are a bit more refined looking than yours and probably a LOT lighter, but heat is what we're after here, right?  Nice ingenuity.

I bet they don't look like this under the cover for $75 bucks.  I  think his brother had the holes in the plates punched out at a laser cutting  place but the rest he did at his shop. He used to do massive bus sized heat exchangers before he went on his own.

[faux fiddy]

Progress. Tis the season to burn oil waste  in haste. The door is turned and the glass tacked in  Thanks  to the glowing headed man shaped life force. He's in it with the aliens.

[faux fiddy]

Flue is hung and the scaffold is out of the way. 

Cell phone ran out of juice before the hinges were done. Ended up with a piece of pipe on the side of the front and a couple of nuts welded to the  door.  After a bit of chamfering it fit nicely. Still brainstorming a latch but it might involve an old slag hammer.

[heffay]

Ya, they look pretty similar even on the inside, just not 1/4" steel and a wheel for a base.       yours needs to hold more heat though due to yours being an indoor setup, so the heavier steel is probably better in your situation... just not for portability like we need here. 

[ogsmakdade]

Just the kind of stuff I like, I've been an HVAC tech for 10 years.  Sounds like you have your tech guy, but if you have any questions I'd be happy to help. 

[faux fiddy]

Just the kind of stuff I like, I've been an HVAC tech for 10 years.  Sounds like you have your tech guy, but if you have any questions I'd be happy to help. 

Not sure what tech applies, but kind of using common sense and basic concepts to put out as much heat outside the combustion chamber as possible. This one is just a prototype, it has 18 heat exchanger tubes.


We do want to do one with foundry cement and forgery capability but that will be a different animal altogether.  We're hoping that this not only puts out the most heat but burns relatively clean.  The sheer mass of it adds safety because it's hard to tip over by accident. I hear most the cost of a factory oil stove today is devoted to epa and safety concerns.

I would imagine this will make a bit of a smell but toyo stoves do too. The stack will be almost thirty feet in the air  so it probably won't smell too bad right around the shop unless it is a really still night.

We should have it online by Friday. We are thinking gravity feed from an old r-22 bottle for a day tank and an inline petcock or two for redundant shutoffs and a drip tube to start. Any suggestions you have for an adjustable  delivery system are welcomed.

[faux fiddy]

Final push to finish this  included cleaning up a stopped up petcock and tubing too small exchanged for tubing a bit large, but it fired up and we adjusted it well enough to fire it up.

Shut it down after a half hour, and it may get some more fuel delivery tweaking. For now a DT 50 tank is what we are using for a day tank. We used a coffee can full of holes for a pot for the time being.

[faux fiddy]

Used a slag hammer for a door latch/handle.