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QUESTION:I am wanting to build a waste oil furnace for my personal shop , I am
looking for a simple setup and possibly a conversion to convert my current
woodburner into a oil furnace.
Can anyone help me out ?
ANSWER: Back in the Days Before TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms like EPA etc) a waste
oil burner was a common sight in auto repair shops. They consisted of
1 - a tank to dump it in, mounted high, with tap valve near the bottom
2 - copper tube leading from tap to firebox
3 - flat rock with end of tube position over it
4 - Chimney consisting of a series of stove-pipes. The first elbow's opening
is positioned over the rock where the oil drips. then you have a length of
4-ft straight pipe, a u-bend, another straight, so you have 3-6 "layers" of
piping before the smoke and heat exits through the roof or side of the
building.
In operation, the oil is set to drip on the rock, then is ignited,
probably with the help of a propane torch.
Once started, the oil will continue to burn. Heat is regulated by adjusting
the flow of oil. Once it's going good, the stovepipes will be cherry-red for
as much as 5-10 feet.
I have a wood-burning stove in my shop which was made from a 55-gallon
drum. I have been known to burn oil in it by adding a can or a hubcap full
of oil to the paper and wood that normally fuels it. I have considered
adding a drip oil supply through a hole drilled in the top of the drum, but
so far have not gotten around to it.
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