Anyone ever make a Used Motor Oil Heater?
I converted the woodstove that is in my shop to burn used motor oil.
There s an air tube that runs from the top of the stove down into a coffee can where the oil is also dripped into.
I have been running it for the last 2 days and can't believe the heat it puts out from just the air/oil mixture eing burned. The tube draws air down into the coffee can and creats a torch effect. The more oil, the more heat the more the air flow it creats and the hotter it gets. It sounds like a rocket engine.
There s an air tube that runs from the top of the stove down into a coffee can where the oil is also dripped into.
I have been running it for the last 2 days and can't believe the heat it puts out from just the air/oil mixture eing burned. The tube draws air down into the coffee can and creats a torch effect. The more oil, the more heat the more the air flow it creats and the hotter it gets. It sounds like a rocket engine.
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lol... as neat as that is the EPA is probably having a subpoena issued as I write this 0 -
Why?
They sell used motor oil furnaces.
and if you go outside and look at the chimniny you only see heat coming out and no smoke.0 -
mvp, can u take a pic of the valve at the bucket? thats so cool, i gotta make one[:D] 0 -
I played with that idea once, making a tank heater for my pond. I just used a 55 gallon barrel with a pan of sand in the bottom and a coil of copper tubing. By the time the oil worked it's way through the coil of tubing, it was generated to a gas and burned very well. I had some problems with the draft control. When I got it burning well it would just about be bouncing and would blow itself out. When it was generating and burning well it seemed to burn pretty clean with minimal smoke. It looks like you're having better luck with yours than I did. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by tomahawk
mvp, can u take a pic of the valve at the bucket? thats so cool, i gotta make one[:D]0 -
got it thanks, how long does a bucket of oil last 0 -
looks like a great idea, but how is it that the drip tube doesn't get melted? is it only connected to the top of the stove, and oil drips 2' into the can? why doesn't the oil in the tube catch fire and torch the whole can of oil?
(cuz I'd like to make one some day, that's a great idea)0 -
quote:Originally posted by tomahawk
got it thanks, how long does a bucket of oil last
I'm not sure.
I have burned about 2 gallons in the last 2 days at a total of about 5 hours.
I have a 55 gallon drum full to the top with used motor oil that will give me a lot of heat this winter.0 -
quote:Anyone ever make a Used Motor Oil Heater?
No, the one I made was new...0 -
that'll work. i can get all the used oil i want at work[:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
looks like a great idea, but how is it that the drip tube doesn't get melted? is it only connected to the top of the stove, and oil drips 2' into the can? why doesn't the oil in the tube catch fire and torch the whole can of oil?
(cuz I'd like to make one some day, that's a great idea)
It is just a big crude carberator. The fuel in your car travels down a tube from the fuel tank and mixes with air and enters the combustion chamber where it ignites.
This is just te simplest form of an air/fuel carberator.
you can put a match out in a bucket of gasoline if you could get past the vaporous fumes. The fumes are what will ignite.
OK Thats all the rocket science I know I am running out of answers.0 -
They are very common up here for garages and hunting camps. Saves alot of money, too, because alot of people are willing to give you their used oil just to get rid of it. 0 -
I know of a large garge here that heats with a similar setup, and another mechanic that heats with a production furnace made to heat with UMO.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIA,HPIA:2007-40,HPIA:en&q=heating+with+used+motor+oil0 -
Actually...I can think of a couple of FORD branded vehicles that could described as such...."motor oil heater".
Actually....just drip the oil on a log/timber....log lasts for several days.0 -
We have a factory built waste oil heater at the wrecking yard where I work.We save waste oil/tranny fluid all year so we can heat our shop during the winter.We can also burn diesel fuel out of cars and trucks in it.We have about 1100 gallons of misc.fuel at this time,but we are adding daily to our supply.If things got real bad,I have over a 1000 engines stored in our warehouse that I can drain.We also have two generators if we lose our power and our own above ground gas tank.We also have about 400 cars and trucks with gas in them still.
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I hope you have your homeowners insurance policy paid up to date. You might as well put an extra rider on the policy for EXTREME fire damage ! 0 -
Yeah, have done a version of that...only caveat is that you need to be sure that the exhaust is carried away well, because UMO has Cadmium/vanadium and other heavy metals in it, and it is pretty toxic (beyond the CO and so on....)
I made ours with a tall stack, and it was in a rural setting.
Your coffee can will not last very long, if I understand how your heater works. I used a small box made of firebrick, with a "Drip plate" at the bottom. I used 1/4 inch thick. Had to replace it about every year.0 -
I had one in my old shop....it was one of those stoves that was square, but stepped up on top. we had a turbo 400 tranny pan at the front, and we did a lot of tranny's. Like yours, when we'd get it rockin the thing would glow orange and sound like a jet engine! with a box and squrrel cage on top, a 50x 70 shop was like 80 a;; the time! the door had screw in air bleeds. another thing was if we had an oil spill, we'd toss the kitty litter in the back, kinda like a ramp, and it would fry.
About 100% efficient, as barely any smoke came from the chimney. we started it with fuel oil, and had a 55 gallon drum upstairs. that would last about 10 days.0 -
A friend of mine who had a car repair shop used one back in the '50's
and it was called a "Salemander". Really roared but really put out heat. Kinda reminded me of the old gasoline heaters in cars back in the '40's called South Wind Heaters. Heat in 90 seconds was their trade moto. But the Southwind Heaters in cars burned gasoline piped in from the carboratour.0
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