Waste oil heater

My waste oil vaporising heater that I built out of junk a few years ago to Spikes (youtube name "ozzirt") design. I use it to heat my home and have replaced the old log burner with it. It will burn any oil you can throw at it and has a firing rate of 600ml to 1200ml per hour. It's easy to light, burns cleanly, is easy to maintain and does not require any electricity to run.

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• waste oil heater
• drip feed oil burner
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• vaporizing burner
• free heat
• brake drum heater
• pot burner

[luckydave2207]

Continued: Sorry about the rant! Simon I just wanted to know how you have attached the lid of the camp oven to the cylinder sleeve. Is it just welded and if so what type of rods did you use?

That sure is one classy looking heater.

[uopminvest]

Hi, thanks for your comments. The lid is bolted to the sleeve from the under side with 4mm machine screws. There's plenty of meat (about 7mm) in the wall of the sleeve to drill and tap it. Thanks

[bessy164]

so how are you getting the oil to ignight ? is there a gas burner under the bowl?

[uopminvest]

I put screwed up news paper and a fire starter in the pot, light it and then turn on the oil. After a few minutes the pot gets hot enough to keep it going once the news paper and fire stater have burnt out.

[bessy164]

hi how have you got the oil lit? is the bowl burning or is it like on a wick?

[uopminvest]

Hi, the oil drips into the pot and burns on its own without a wick. Thanks

[ozzirt]

@madscientist4energy It won't choke because there is a 12mm gap under the lower edge of the enclosure and the outer edge of the enclosed drip tray.

The square tubing forming the lower framework has horizontal angle grinder slots in the inside and it's plumbed into a 2.5lb CO2 extinguisher with 1/2" copper tube, in case of a fire.

[madscientist4energy]

This is true craftmanship,

In england you can get the needle valves online from bes.co.uk.

Is there an air vent form outside supplying the air or is it just sucking out of the room.

I notice Ozzirt put his in a case with a door on but there is no mention why it doesnt choke.

From a few experiments I noticed it takes a lot of air to keep engine oil burning clean.

[TheOllifant]

wow nice greatings from germany .

[luckydave2207]

Hi Simon,

I know Spike by email, I had built a fan forced heater. Very different to the model he built. It runs a white hot flame. The old guy that lives next door to me was a blacksmith and says the color of flame I had would be about 1500 degrees celsius. It heats my shed way to hot at an idle. The problem I had was the complexity in design and it takes about 30 minutes to disasemble to clean. After seeing your heater I am sold. Simple and effective.