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Homemade Babington Ball Waste Oil Burner Boiler Furnace - Part 1

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Uploaded by on Jun 24, 2010

First run of my Babington Ball Burner. My plans are to incorporate the controls from a Becket oil gun and the boiler it was installed in to make this turn on and off automatically.

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  • i have made a similar burner it uses its own heat as a secondary preheat and does not leak leaks tend to cach fire

  • @ABtofreedom Yeah, leaks are bad. I am sometimes tempted to make another one. Did you watch the "part 2" video? I made 2 mistakes which doomed the whole project. First- I should have made my own boiler, or found a much larger boiler. The burn chamber was far FAR to small for the amount of heat I was trying to push thru it. I needed something that could handle about 300K BTU. Second- The whole works would freeze up due to moisture in the air line, needs to be in heated area.

  • I have decided to abandon the idea. It worked well in the fall, but once the real cold weather set in a couple flaws became evident. The burner was running steadily because the boiler was far too small to capture the amount of heat the gun put out which also caused me to have to clean it about every 2 weeks. I also kept having trouble with moisture freezing in the air line and shutting down the whole works. It just became too much of a hassle. A bigger boiler inside a heated shop would work

  • How did it work last winter?How Did it affect the inside of the furnace? Where did you get the babington ball from?

  • @RasputinSir I bought the ball from an online metals fabricator who makes decorative railings & such. I think they are called king metals. The wall thickness of the ball made it impossible to drill with such a small bit until i drilled through from the back side using the hole for the air inlet with a bigger bit to remove most of the material.

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  • Good work

    I work on the same burner for high temperature near 1500° 1600°

    You can saw it

    Sorry for my english

  • Gheesh very nice , looks like some kind of mini gun of some sort =-]

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