Waste oil burner construction and operation for free heating and cooking. . No power needed
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- This vid shows how a waste oil burner can be made that is good for heating and cooking. This Burner is an adaptation of the draft or Drip burner design. It can be filled and left to burn without the need for any drip feeding or it can use a dosing pump for sustained and unattended operation.
It will run for around an hour once filled but can be much longer depending how fast and how much heat it is putting out. It will burn ANY waste oil or melted animal fat and does not need any power to operate.
The primary air controls the burn rate and therefore heat output. The design has NO critical dimensions, just use whatever scrap you have and Build it. If you follow the principals of operation it will work and you can get an understanding of how these things really operate and the principals behind them.
Thank you to everyone for all the kid comments and support on my last video. It means a great deal and was very humbling. I will try to keep the vids coming more regularly.
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The burner is back!
Definitely going to build one for winter. Looks so simple and easy to use. Gonna go well with the endless supply of used engine oil I can get from the garage I work at. Thanks for sharing this with us!
style points attitude points, and for the win, honesty points. fantastic lesson:(a) heat, (b) small budget, (c) gaff on us Americans!!!!! thank you, sir.
Best self propelled burner and simplest in all of Saint YOutube. I like the way you put it, some questions are unnecessary.
This reminds me of a rocket stove, just liquid oil powered (instead of small pieces of wood). I like it! Plasma cutters look really fun! My wife got me one, but I haven't tried it out yet. It needs a pretty hefty compressor as well as power source. I need to do some wiring first.
Plasma's are Brilliant. I am surprised more people don't have them and are still using grinders. You may find that running the plasma and the compressor at the same time Blows fuses with the power draw. If that happens, pump the compressor up first then switch it off and use what is in the tank.
I have an old LPG tank from a car which is about 100L that I connect to the compressor as extra reserve. This Cutter has the compressor built in which is handy. I run a solar inverter through the same circuit so I have all the power the Circuit can take and no voltage drop which is handy.
OB, happy to see you're still at it. Times /priorities change and interests vary, but a group of my friends would like to watch you more often... Keep those eye lashes and nose hairs singed!
I've heard a gas mantle lamp described as a bunsen burner that wears a shirt made of incandescent metal oxide, so i guess that's a type of clothing for a flame
The best oil burner I've seen so far
I have watched all your videos and have enjoyed learning so much about heating. Like my campsite and my cabin. Also I now melt aluminum engines instead of wasting time taking them apart. So thank you very much.
Glad to hear my stupidity has been put to practical and helpful application!
@@glumpy10 that's the thing I like about your videos you make things simple and make stuff out of scrap that just laying around. I damn sure not a smart guy when it comes to building stuff out of scrap but I'm getting better at it lol.
Thank you Sir for an excellent video, I have only seen the drip type. You are being watched from across the pond in Wales Blighty.
Just made one from an old exhaust and a mini propane tank, thanks for the video.
I like the triangles for secondary air, they heat up and induce turbulence. I'd wrap some exhaust tape around the bottom foot of the flue to increase the burn chamber temperature. I'd look at how I could preheat the secondary air, perhaps with a sleeve. You'd get a better combustion which translates to better kw/l. I have thought a lot and I'm about to build a version 3 rocket stove based workshop heater that should be able to run multi-fuel. I have abundance of pallets, oil and logs, and pellets are cheap. Ideally all in one with minor adaptations,all builtof scrap and cheap local materials. My firebox is lined with 25mm fire brick to add heat to better combustion. I have pre -heated secondary and tertiary air.
I'd like to see a Vid on your design. Perhaps you could consider one to show others what you have come up with. Sounds well thought out and would be efficent.
You could use an insulated IBC full of water with a heat exchange coil as a thermal bank, use the excess heat to bring the IBC up to temp and draw off that through the coil.
Just like to say as an American, right now the metric system is the least of out worries .If ya know what i mean.
Love the humor.
love the haphazard way and the sly comments you do keeps me from falling asleep with my eyes open
Glad to hear it. Lot of talking in this Vis so was trying to keep it interesting.
Can I put a shield around the up pipe with holes if there is enough flow... I want to reduce the back-feed smoke and put an expansion chamber on the top and use it in a shed or ice shanty
The legend is here!
got a water heating system for it,,,,, might use to heat my hot tub, but still working out hot to turn the water off once hot
Você publicou um vídeo sobre isso? Quero fazer um apoio para o meu aquecedor solar.
I like this concept. I have made a few draft oil burners and whilst they work it's hard to get the air flow right the first one I had to many holes and lacked velocity after blocking some it got cracking but needed baby sitting as the drip feed is hard to get right. I did get some pumps and timers but yet to try them.. I have also made some your other designs and work extremely well and are good for melting the shed they are hard to tame and are noisy. .
Glad you are back thanks for shareing Regards Sleepy
yes, the forced air type are a bit sledge hammer in output and are certainly noisy. This one makes a calming and pleasant noise I find. Certainly no shouting over this one. Pretty much like a good camp fire. I found this design is quitre insensitive to the secondary air holes and only really effect how clean the burn is. That said, I have run it smoking pretty well and the thing turned red hot. I am thinking to do another vid with this when I get a longer flue for it as increasing the draw should also increase the burn rate and heat output.
@@glumpy10 that would be great I like this design and I will make one also I might revamp the draft one that type of pan the longer flue. Thanks regards Sleepy
Great & so simple! I would just drill holes with a combi drill with 20mm holesaw. I'd also make the fuselage from heavy gauge 100mm cable trunking; for which you can buy a ready made right angle. Added advantage is that one complete side is a lid that removes for cleaning 😄
A JeorgeSprave reference in the wild! Today is a good day! For the holes- could you use expanded steel mesh for lots of air to mix, and use some sort of cover over that for a baffle? or is the wedges actually doing a lot of work mixing? As an American, yes- we are indeed confused. Often.
Nice little thing that has a lot of power
i wonder what porcelain would do for the smoke ..in the chimney .....anyway thanks for posting this is one of my favorite ideas for an oil burner i've seen ...and i come from Canada ...where we have 11 months of winter and a month of bad sledding
Tbh you're kind of the GradeAUnderA of oil burners.
How long is the flute or chimney, not sure what you call it? Does the length matter?
The flue length or Diamater is not critical but the longer it is the more draw you have which will make the fire burn faster so you can use more fuel and create more heat.
I'm going to borrow you're idea here. James (Tcme) pointed me in you're direction, great channel
Very very well done sir...Thanks so lot.
Over here in the states we call this a smudge pot
Yep works in the same way there's also this military water heater m67 it's a tube that goes into the water tank and ya light a fire in it. Super effective way to heat water
U should do a new deseign a 3 way oil burner
Cheers from the land of propane torched and no matches. 😂😂
What type of waist oil are u burning? Food oils or automotive? Do they need need to he filterd first or can we just burn them. EDIT Just got further down the video and seen it was cooking oil 👌
Any type of oil unfiltered.
shit glad to see your still kickin
Welcome back
27:25 "About 3 meters..... In American terms, that's about 3 meters."
Ha ha 🤣😀🤣
notice your a little tamer than of old , lmao , must be nice to have good neighbors for a change , keep em coming
No, just a little older and more tired. Yeah, it's great having good neighbours. Bit different though. Now I have to think what I'm doing so as not to annoy them where before I was thinking what could I do TO annoy them. The latter is far more fun but it's nice not to have idiots pissing me off in the first place.
As an American, I love your Australian humor.
When the oil has completely burned is there any ash or deposit in the burn pot? And if so does it crud up or crust up and stick inside this burner rendering it useless?
Not if the air flow is right. This is achieved in an "L" rocket stove by a proper sized ratio of the riser to the burn chamber. 4+:2 respectively. In a "J tube" configuration it's 4+:2:1 4+ riser to 2 burn chamber to 1 feed chamber (wood/pellets/acorns/corn.
This ratio allows draft to provide airflow for good combustion.
@@jeremiahshine So your saying there is absolutely NO ash or crud from burning oil! I doubt that very much. Maybe you only had it on for a few minutes and there was still oil there!
@@TheDemoexpert Almost complete combustion can be attained. Temps can be achieved that burn the "smoke" before it gets a chance to poof away. Of coarse there will be particulates, but not like soot forming cooler burns. If there's an efficient burn. Very attainable and simple to achieve.
@@TheDemoexpert
We get 95+% combustion with a variety of rocket stove cores with wood. Using the soft insulation brick is the way to go if a really REALLY clean burn is to be achieved... or mineral wool. The Temps we get melt steel. No smoke...No soot...no creosote.
One stove I built replaced a big metal wood stove. He heated his house with 5 cords of wood per year. Now he does it with one cord. No smoke, no soot, no creosote. Very little co2 and CO.
@@TheDemoexpert When I'm done with commercial fireplace builders they're usually left in a state of cognitive dissonance. 🤣
Very nice one man!
Just wondering, Is there any burned oil smell aroud this engine?
Only if you spill some Filling it. when using the pump, none at all.
He's back!
Hi, Thanks for the funny and informative video. For your water heat exchanger project, it sounds as though this burner with its soot problems might not be as good as a clean-burning fan-forced equivalent. In either case, I think the best solution would be to complete the combustion at the highest possible temperatures before there is any attempt to extract heat. Could a voluminous insulated cavity with mixing baffles do this?
I have encountered the soot condensation problem in very tiny wood-fired backpacking tent stoves that stay soot free when burning sticks. However, when fired with supplementary vegetable oil fuel the soot accumulation is very slow, but when burning for hours, this slow accumulation of soot is terrible. In my case, I think the soot problem stems from my tiny compact burn chamber that is also acting as my heat exchanger. Hope this makes sense. Tim
Gonna try this on the weekend
I’m pretty shit at it but hey we aren’t all naturally talented lol .
Love watching your stuff mate. Please keep it up and even some more solar stuff if u can fit it in 😁
Cheers
Troy
Best way to do this is to do this! Not hard and even a fail is learning so the next one will be better. It's very straightforward so give it a go, nothing to loose.
As well as the vent holes could you perhaps put an air pipe with a venturi type nose cone through either front and back. The other thing i was thinking was a steel type of fan suspended from in side the flue but my thoughts being crude could be noisy 😒
Hey gentleman! Will it run on the waste engine oil the same way??? Thank you from Pakistan!
Chisel with a mushroomed head ? - bigger target area for when your eyesight is going :-p
try peening down around the air feed and bending down to make a built in funnel
That's a good idea that makes sense . Might smooth the burn out a bit. I know what you are talking about, like air horns on carburettors. The air should have a smooth, curved inlet. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@glumpy10 I did wonder about putting a "levee bank" around the hole so that if it overfilled with oil, the flame would go out - but then you'd need some way to tell the pump to shut off. All to hard. :)
Yea!!!haven't seen your videos in a year. .I had heard that you were in the hospital w 3rd degree burns...I didn't believe them though!...keep on burning mmman!!..
Liked & subscribed..
Good shit haven't seen one of these in years... Not so popular in the tropics..
A bit of coarse mesh across the flue & small door about 6 inches up the flue make's lighting a little easier , throw in a ball of paper or similar... Watch out for embers .
I had one in my bathroom but it never got used & rusted to bits.
Is it work with friying oil ? Amazing project
No naked flame... Is the kind of sign the wife would put if you present a former girlfriend as "just an old flame"
Hes back!
Joke's on you lad! We americans know all about liters because them's the sizes what our liquid diabetes comes in.
I think maybe you'd get a cleaner burn if you put a restrictor plate inside the pipe. Just a metal plate with staggered, small-ish holes drilled around the outer edge to allow the hot gas to flow, just welded right in there.
If the gasses only come through around the sides of the casing, you can place the air inlets there to ensure a thorough and even mixing of fuel and air.
It could also slow down the burn and keep the fuel hotter, since all that gas is coming in contact with the plate at some point rather than going straight up the chimney. Might be worth trying!
Yes, I think that would very much be worth trying and is a great Idea. I'll write that down but I can see it could be very effective. Thanks.
Note on safety, that chisel with the mushroom is super sketchy the edges can fire off like shrapnel, grind them off once and a while friend
Also why not try a wick of say a scrunched paper towel to ignite, instead of blow torch
hE HAS TO HEAT UP THE OIL TO ABOUT 200 DEGREES F before it will run. I Heat our 10 car garage with old engine oil and have to heat with a blow torch for about 4 minutes then let it burn for about 10 minutes, then I blow air with an old furnace blower into the pot. we melt our pots made of 3/8 (10mm) steel away in a month or so. I put a brake rotor over the top with a 2 inch air gap between the pot and rotor and drip and blow straight down into the pot from directly above. The brake rotors boil away in a week. the flame is so bright you can only look at it with welding helmet. but it is inside and old wood furnace for heating an entire house. It has an 8 inch stove pipe and will not run with a 6 inch pipe with out back puffing. the unit only smokes out the stack on start up, once running for 20 minutes you can only see heat waves coming out of the stack. It runs 10 hours a day every day but Sunday all winter. our engine oil is unfiltered we burn about 50 gallons in 4 1/2 days. I have to clean the dirt out of the pot every morning before starting it, but it is much easier than filtering your oil and then having toxic wast filters to deal with. I start with a cup of diesel then drip the engine oil once it hot. The carbon and dirt from the pot can go right in the trash. Ive been running ours In this final configuration for 7 years. I tried 27 other configurations before settling on this one. You could run it cooler and the rotors would last three months, the pot could go, 4 months. But we have a very old garage when the wind blows we feel it on us inside LOL. So I run it really hot. Good luck ... Nick IN New Hampshire USA winters coldest days 10 below 0 F (-10F) typical is 10 to 25 F.
Sk wish you would do a stove pipe heater on one of your builds. It's a heater mate but the heat is escaping.... ;)
Are you talking about something to capture the heat going up the Flue Pipe?
@@glumpy10 Back in the late Fifties, I remember Dad putting a copper coil inside the bathwater (kero) heater. Heat in the flue gases in the chimney pre-heated the water going into the water heater.
perhaps add a few of your triangle air inlets on the top surface of the reservoir give it more air.
I'm beginning to think I need a plasma cutter. I wonder if I can sneak it past my wife.
I believe doing that would make it burn faster but not as clean. Really depends on what one is after though.
That said, Might be worth putting an extra hole towards the back of the upriser and see how that went.
@@p38arover22 The trick is to either make them think it was their suggestion OR, show them there is a Benefit in it for them. Like you can make something THEY wanted. Or course then there is always good old fashioned lying and saying you borrowed it from a friend. Time they work out you didn't it's too late to say much other than the disapproving look which is not a bad price to pay.
@@glumpy10 You might be right. :) The trouble is I need to start divesting myself of tools before I die. :(
@@p38arover22 Remember: He whom dies with the most Toys/ Tools, WIN'S!! :0)
I have tried replicate one of your project to smelt aluminum. But i was thinking something like this project to melt aluminum. I am from Palau mate so i dont need heater but ive been looking at all your videos to try to make fastest way to melt aluminum. The project that i replicated was your project when you melted subaru engine head cover.
I don't think this would be much good for melting. The forced air burners have far more heat and a better type of output for that job. Even a 12V blower from a car will produce a lot of heat that could be used for melting even in a brick or Dirt Furnace.
@Cory Gill Had access to a whole Subaru wrecking yard. That's closed down now so I'll have to see what else I can source.
Lucky you for having a wreck yard budd. I have blower for kids playground but im trying to do something like this design to burn oil sufficiently and melt metal. I've seen youtubers melting aluminum using firewood with similar design but, but now that im thinking about it, wood does produce whatever americans call it to increase the intense of the fire. Bummer. I guess i need to stick to the blower then. Stick with ECO BFF mode. 😁😁
hit the thumbs up for an cool errr hot channel
cool just seen it
I must apologize in advance.. I'm an ignorant American, but- He said at 8m:09s
"...and I'm five foot, fifteen."
Referring to his height... is that.... a metric........... foot?? Please send help. 🤣😂
How much oil it use per hour
Don’t think much of us Americans huh? lol that’s alright I guess, can’t say I talk of Australians that way, but to each their own. Good content anyway, thanks.
Thanks, I enjoyed this vid! 👍😊
Are there any EPA issues with running an oil burner in Australia? Don't get me wrong - I'm not a tree hugging extreme greenie, but am curious as to whether there are any laws against the practice as there are with burning insulated copper wire, for example?
Keep up the great content! 👏
I don't know and don't really care. :0) There are a lot of contradictory laws but the reality is unless someone dobs you in, which they encourage these days now Oz has gone completely down the tubes, no way for them to find out.
I believe you are supposed to have a burner licenced if it's over 600 or 1000 KW, forget which now but I don't really pay attention to any other nanny state laws. If you are reasonable and don't have plumes of smoke or ignore fire bans, never known anyone to have any trouble here.
@@glumpy10 Thanks! Maybe I'll just experiment with it when the "nannies" aren't watching! 🤣
I do the same thing with the wife, top her off on the fly. Ya gotta use your dipstick to check them out.
Holy crap. I thought he was dead.
Well many were hoping but just not their lucky day!
@@glumpy10 not me mate. Good to see your back. I watched all your videos back in the day.
Second video of 2021!!
Was hoping it would have been about the 4th by now but weather and health was not favourable but I'll keep plugging away.
Change it to "no naked dames"
The heater is on it's side. It's not supposed to be on it's side eh. 🛀
Gas is short for gasoline.
lot of people have reach some profit by inject water in oil to utilize more ash in pure fire.
My Uncle told me about a stove his family had a s a kid that did that. something I should look into.
@@glumpy10 this man is one who make water in burning motor oil. th-cam.com/video/kotTE2qt7eI/w-d-xo.html
perhabs that sample is not best becouse his stand more complex. I suggest in simple stand possible install pressurized volume with water at cooking pod and connect by tin tube under oil puddle. By this way vaporized water mixed with heated oil and should'nt lot of sprayed but enough to utilize ash.
Your 5 foot 15 inches....WTF really? is that 6 foot 3 inches?....or your just very confused and should never be give the reading end of a tape measure...
Probably both mate! An in joke where I say my wife is 4 ft 12 To make her sound taller.
I hope youre as excited about the metric foot as I am! I cant figure out if its a 'comedic' way to say 6'3", or if they actually blend Imperial/Metric units..
A little forced air would help the burn
As an Australian I say stop bagging yanks. They're OK. I've learnt so much from a lot of them here on youtube, and honestly it just makes you sound petty and arrogant and not really funny.
The great majority of my Viewers are from the US, the majority of my YT friends are from the US and the majority of the comments saying my ribbing Americans is funny are from Americans as well. Maybe you ought to lighten up a bit and realise this is all in good fun and not vindictive at all.
I'm pretty sure that we can take the abuse, but there are folks here that are could use some attitude adjustment! I feel that anything is ok , especially if anyone can get a laugh out of it! Especially if panties get wadded!
As an American, (generation X) I think OB goes too easy on us. Probably for the best, though, as the younger generations were programmed by elitist social engineering to believe they are special and entitled to be 'protected' from any disagreeable speech or event.
The whole country has been subverted , divided and conquered by the rich and powerful and their minions.
They need to have their feelings hurt, else they won't be able to face reality.
Thats climate change... now snowflakes are falling upward down under :D
Mr. burner you and I are related I worked in the oil burner business for 35 years! Here in the United States we call our temperature scale
🇺🇸FREEDOMHEIT🇺🇸
Although I will grant you our government is trying to convert our measurement system to
PEASANTHEIT😡
I promise you they will
N😡T. SUCCEED❤️🔥🇺🇸
I understand that you folks Downunder are having that same difficulty with your politicians but so is Canada and maybe even Great Britain it’s time for all of us to stand up and we best do it PDQ❤️🔥
God bless you cousin burner
Welcome back
Gas is short for gasoline.
Bro i made fortunes because of you, now i can burn everything like no tomorow, for nearly free, really cleanly ! love u !
Be interested to see what you have done and how you have applied things.
Nice to see you're still around, i can't wait to build me one of these!
They are very easy to build and could be done any size tube you have.
Nice!!!
Your humor and sweet personality are absolutely top notch! So glad you are still going strong, and guiding the world toward recycling and energy independence! As the youngsters would say, You Rock! Hope to travel down under and visit your unique country!
Good to have you back oil burner
Thanks. I appreciate all the kind comments. Means a lot.
I Love the "oil feeded inferno" and the way you present it !!
Bingewatched your complete vid-list in 3 days... Enjoyed it very much !
I just noticed that after a long break you have uploaded something again and now I am anxiously awaiting more enlightening videos!
Subscribed and liked em all 😉
P.S.:
I believe the fume wasnt even fume... was looking very much like steam/vapor from the "wet" vegoil !?
Could it be ?
I had not thought of that. It's possible. The vapor has to go somewhere and being the coolest atmosphere thats where it would condense. I think there was some unburnt fuel but it may have been a part rather than the total of what was seen. Thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoyed the vids.
Make the square portion of the riser a bit taller. You could maybe restrict it a bit...like a 1" inch flat on edge tacked inside the riser above the air holes to get a roll back to re-combust.
(For posterity's sake:
The three T's of combustion:
Time
Turbulence
Temperature)
OMG, you used a carpenters hammer on steel work... The unions wont like this.. ;-)
Can you burn old carpet without any smoke? Most carpets are petroleum based.
Challenge accepted! Maybe not on this burner but I can build one that does.
great too see u back bro
12 People lost their finger prints.
Revisiting as I'm about to make myself one up for the shed but where have you gone? Are you okay? We miss you😢
no lo hagas es totalmente contaminador y sucio .....busca los quemadores q usan un soplador q gasifican el aceite y luego la queman...tienes q lograr una llama azul q es perfecta , cusndo la logres no estaras contaminando ni corriendo riesgos con tu salud
Thats way to simple ...gotta build one
Cutting edge scrapyard tech!
Really nice video! I have been playing with these things and have made 13 different iterations so far trying to get the burn right and I can't get it. The flue fills with soot after a couple weeks and it has to be swept or the draft goes away.
I'm doing my best, and your videos are funny and descriptive. Thank you!
All the best from Chile
Eli
My suggestion would be to burn them hot as you can n every few days. The soot is a problem on this design even if they do burn clean. The other thing you could try is to give the thing a hard burn on kerosene or Diesel which should be cleaner and might remove some of the soot. You need to hit around 600C for the soot to burn out.
The other thing I have just found is flue length makes a big difference. I added to mine and the fire burns much more intensely. When I can get some materials I'm going to do a 12V low power forced air design for heating as they self clean and avoid the soot problems.
@@glumpy10 cool can't wait to see that! My burner designs are pretty different from what you have done here, but i think all that matters is getting a good secondary burn going. I'm trying to get it to vortex a bit. Also I'm going to up the flue size from 4.5 to 6 inches and insulate it to see if that helps get more draw or what
Thanks for replying! Your chanel has inspired me to upload and share my projects
Oh i forgot to say that i actually have found that burning kerosene for some reason makes more soot in the pipe. In fact, i think the majority of the soot that builds up in the pipe comes from the cold kerosene startups, because when i run it on kerosene is when it really belches black smoke out the of the stack. Wheras on oil alone, once it is warmed up, it just has a light haze of brownish grey smoke
I’m from Texas and I love the shi talking. Little long winded but I like it haha especially
ideas for scrap laying around.
new subscriber here i think it’s pretty amazing how hot the burn chamber gets causing the steel to become transparent being able to see the flames. i like how you speak the truth, for instance if you don’t burn something you don’t get any heat. i can’t wait to make one of these, thank you so much for sharing. cheers 👍
Another awesome video Oil burner, if you were to build another one of these maybe you could try some RHS in the sides on a 45 degree angle to help induce more air flow, however nothing will beat forced air, by the way, do you have an email address at all. Cheers
I thought there was a contact on my YT account but I don't see it now. I'll look into that. Was thinking of setting up an insta account and an email on that. I'll get back to you.
Awsome just when i whas starting again with burning oil you post a new video.
Mr. Oil Burner, Great video, working on ours now; local park says " no ash producing fires" when fire ban is on. Soon to have that illusive alternative. Thank you from Texas! You have a well packed sense for humor!!
I had a neighbour call the council for me running my burner during a fire ban. Once the guys got over the "WTF??" moment, they said, noting in the regs about liquid fueled and as there was no smoke or sparks, all good.
Then I ran the thing sounding like a rocket engine right up till noise cut off time just to stick it to the bastards.
Welcome back! How the devil are you? Cool design. My wood stove used to have a flue that was about 30 feet tall (which for the rest of the world, is about 30 feet tall). It had an automatic dampener of sorts on the back that would let ambient air into the stack to actually lower the draft/suction on the stove when it really got going so the stove didn’t get too hot. Good problem to have. Your water heater idea sounds interesting. I’ve seen a simple design for a self contained charcoal maker with an oil drum filled with wood and a flue going up the center that heats up the wood and once it gets going, the wood vapors are fed into the bottom burner tubes and it sustains itself until all the volatiles are burnt off. Your burner is similar and could be used to start something like that- sort of an oil/wood hybrid (not sure how much wood you have around there). Anyway, keep up the great work.
I have seen those char Kiln designs and I wonder why why everyone does not do them like that instead of letting out Plumes of smoke. Smoke is just unburnt fuel so to waste it is inefficient to me. Also seem people making oil from plastic and cracking motor oil. The let vapours drift away which is un distilled product.
When things get back to some sort of normality ( if ever here) I'd like to do one of those Char Kilns. The auto flue Dampener sounds brilliant.
Having a variable secondary air intake with one of these would work well I think. Thanks for the idea!
That's a great frocking idea to use a similar design to this in a charcoal maker that utilizes the volatiles.
Last post would not let me edit.. It's called a Smudge Pot outdoor heater.. 😄
Yes, that is the basic principal.
It's not burning clean because it's not hot enough, in a rocket stove they isolate the burn chamber and extract the heat from the hot gasses. Your big draft introduces a lot of cool air and loses a lot of heat straight out of the chimney.
Insulate the burning area, and redirect air intake to flow across hot surfaces to preheat it.
That is something to think about. I would like it to burn hotter just for cleaning purposes but I'm not having a lot of luck with that. I haven't seen anyone use this principal of burner that has so I put it down to a limitation of the design. Thanks for the suggesting though, I'll have a think about putting that into practicality.
@@glumpy10 Take a look at the aprovecho guys, they got a niche YT channel and website with design principles, construction plans, all kinds of data. I am sure you could adapt these to improve your burner.
@@metagen77 my thoughts exactly 💯
very nice!
you mentioned the burner isn't as efficient as forced air, doesn't always burn all the oil.
Kerosene heaters usually have stainless screen to retain heat to help burn fuel better Catylitic burners use metals like platinum for exothurmic consumption of many kinds of fuel
I was wondering what kind of inexpensive metal would heat up faster and help combust the oil better, maybe🤷♂️
I'd imagine stainless baffle maybe with holes would hold head and provide turbulence to mix fuel and air not sure though just thinking out loud😂
Preheated combustion air will burn it hotter different subject is I Saw an old timey American product recently called a " smudge pot ". You should replicate the design aspects of the combustion process. Thoroughly enjoyed your for you American comments. Thanks from the States.