Fire! The Garage Heater!

This is my garage heater. It served us for 10 years already and it is still working great. It runs on old oil used in cars, so its like free heat for the winter XD.
Here is a link with a picture that will help you to made it XD:
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m194/ASTER_PHOENIX_2006/PRIVATNO/oilburner...
Ah I forgot to add to the picture, the metal that is used is 3mm thickly (I think its thickly XD, sorry about my english), and it is sheet metal.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• fire
• heater
• winter
• garage

[2550osiosterdalen]

Ok. I got the picture. But the diameters seems to be giant dimensions to me. Isn't it the pre cut sheet you can weld together, you have drawed? 84 cm Ø is much bigger then the one on the movie? Or did I get it wrong? And aren't the holes at the center/middle of the heater bigger then 6mm, Or does they just seem to be bigger then the other holes?

[Aster82Phoenix]

Mmm well, the 84cm are OK. If you are familiar with the sign Ø then I dont have to explain. Otherwise see it like this: you have a circle, in that circle set a point and make one whole round, beginning from that point and till you reach the point again it is exactly 84cm. I hope I explained it good :P xd.

And about the wholes, they are 6mm, they just look probably bigger in the movie cause of the fire :)

[2550osiosterdalen]

I cannot get that picture. Please help :-)

[Aster82Phoenix]

The picture opens up fine for me... 

[moto9ll]

is there a tube on the top of your hearter that goes out through the roof like a wood burning stove heater has? or does the smoke just fill the garage up? if so that doesnt seem real healthy on the lungs...never seen oil burn with out any smoke...how does this work?

[Aster82Phoenix]

Mmmm.....XD. Ya of course there is a "tube" on top of the heater and it leads the smoke out through the roof. It cant be seen in that video, maybe I should make another one. :)

And there is NO smoke in the garage at all :)

[mattmgmhs]

@landykid60 you never made the video you liar =p

[chosen1atWork]

@coachgeo I take on no airs.. I had to search the net to find out what Ø stood for. It has been many years since college and calculas classes. I don't care what his native tongue is... IMHO he was rude to the person who asked him what Ø ment and for them to go look it up for themselves... THAT, IMHO is rude. I found no math page that had the symbol for anything but an empty set, and an empty set does not make sense for what he is talking about.

[coachgeo]

@landykid60 so the trowl limited air flow? Look forward to the video

[coachgeo]

@chosen1atWork - Sir it is you who has chose to take on airs to show thier superiority. A few button clicks and you would discover that English is not this man's native laungage. He is from bosnia herzegovinais. It is not uncommon for someone to write in a forien laungage to them very matter of factly. This can come across brash.. but that is not the intent often.

[chosen1atWork]

@Aster82Phoenix --- it always amazes me when eggheads take on airs to show thier superiority. You can go and look at any math symbol list and find Ø but what does an empty set have to do with this? you wasted alot of space trying to show how smart you are instead of just explaining what YOU mean by Ø . if you mean radius, diameter or circumference, just say so.

[landykid60]

found a way to make my heater burn twice as hot,,, today i was messing arround with my builders trowle ,, and spilled some oil ,,, and scrope it up with the trowle,, and to clean it ,,i put into the air intake,, and it started to burn very hot, and when i took it away it cooled a lot,, so i put it back again ,,and left it there all day,,great heat all day long ,, and very little oil,,, i will post a vid when i find my camra,,,,,

[landykid60]

cheers bud,, made one of these heaters today,, it works great,, thank,s,,,,,,

[2550osiosterdalen]

@Aster82Phoenix

Ok. I just have learned that Ø is the diameter of a circle, but then I completely understand you now :-) Thanks. I have stored your picture on my PC now, just in case.