Prototype Burner

This is my first prototype of my waste, strait, vegetable oil burner. It is designed to bolt onto an existing oil boiler. the electrical and oil line hookups would be exactly the same, but you could fill your oil tank with vegetable oil instead of petroleum oil.
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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Waste
• Vegetable
• Oil
• Burner

[brokentroy]

Very clever arrangement, if only you could avoid the need to recover the un-atomized fuel with a pump. Un-atomized fuel makes a mess, and causes secondary fires to break out in your furnace, sooting up everything. The excessive heat might crack your furnace core and leak CO into the house.... preheater and a siphon nozzle seems the way to go for the cost of a crock pot and 100 dollars in parts.

[greasybrothers]

Your idea with the siphon nozzle sounds cool. Do you have a video showing it in operation, and a site I can check out to make it the way you describe?

[SPINPOSI]

What do you use to heat the oil?

I heat mine to 160F

Is this a Babington ball setup?

[greasybrothers]

Yes, this uses the principles of a babington ball, in that there is a curved surface inside for the oil to run over. I do no pre-heating. the basement temperature, and the oil temperature was 55 degrees F at the time of shooting the film.

[greasybrothers]

Do you have any videos of your setup? I would love to see it.

[NOBOX7]

nice work bro i love the device

you should consider bying waste oil

or perhaps getting it for free from

salvage yards and lube centers they

would probobly give it to you cheeper

than heating oil,just ad a carbon filter

and micro filters set up maybe ?

[NOBOX7]

i like how you retro fitted working devices

rather then attemp to biuld the components

[wyavp]

I would like to do this on my Beckett. Do you have any plans avail?

[meatline1]

top stuff, where can inget plans from

regards

steve

[SPINPOSI]

No videos yet, I'm in the process of making a complete boiler system with it. I'll post up some pics when I get a chance.