Good video. Gerry, can you talk us through what's happening? I'm guessing the air flows up from underneath and comes out the drilled holes and passes over the oil which is burning and being dripped into the biscuit chin area and somehow this cool air coming at the bottom of the flame mixing with the fresh oil starting to burn help to create the rising bright yellow flame. Is that what's happening? Fresh cold air coming out of those holes, feeding the hot burning oil, like a fan as you said?
@@Google_Does_Evil_Now probably better to control the heat output by varying the oil drip rate. Ideally only enough air to burn the volume of oil vapor would enter the furnace. Any extra is just lost btu’s to the outdoors.
I used to weld workshop heaters that used the waste engine oil from cars/ trucks etc. I made the firebox from 3mm mild steel, but they were banned in EU because of the emissions. Watching this makes me wonder if the company that i used to make them for, couldn't have just switched fuels, because the principle looks similar.
Hi Vaulting Gamer. The great thing with this one is that you can try a few designs without spending much time or money. 😜 Thanks for commenting and good luck with your project Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Sitting here in deep freeze country, soaking callused sore foot in a bucket of used french fry grease, watching Gerry cut cookie tins. So much for my life.
Yep Gerry, you have come a long way, been watching your videos for a few years, very professional set up now, - I just love how it roars, simply from the air intake drawn in from the bottom, no fans necessary - Excellent work Gerry.
I used a bunt cake pan made from steel that has a cone already stamped into the center and capped the center with another can with the air holes. The natural draft makes a real hot fire. Thanks for the video! Cheers.
Nice job. I heated my cabin with a version of this burner back in the freezing winters of the 1970s. It would burn any kind of oil, from red diesel to cooking oil.
Years ago I used to heat my large workshop with a wonderful device called a salamander oil burning stove. They have been illegal in the UK for a long time now. I had some great times with "sally" in that workshop.
Love, love, love that you speed through "actions". Too many fill up a video time with things that are un-necessary for us to watch plus the volume is turned way up and we have to listen to several minutes of a loud tool doing the same thing over and over.(totally unnecessary) THANK YOU!!!
The pan can also be made from an old brake drum, they last almost forever and radiate well. I built a fan forced one many years ago to heat water and run under floor hydronic heating, and as I built the whole thing into a detached shed it also serves as a great clothes dryer in winter. I recently upgraded to a pulse pump system rather than babbit style, and fuel consumption is now under 1l/hour. I get free oil from a heavy machinery company as used hydraulic oil, it looks pristine and has no contaminates visible. There is no smoke or smell once started and it heats a 200L repurposed and modified (ex electric) stainless hot water cylinder in just a few hours. I control that temp to 50C using a thermostatic valve to divert excess heat to our 22kL water storage tank, keeping it above painfully cold and reducing freeze risk. I feed that HWC water into the house to the inlet side of two Bosch instant gas water heaters. The gas heaters only add the differential heat from input to output, so gas consumption through winter when the waste oil heater runs is almost zero, but if either system runs out of fuel, there is still always hot water available. I made the hydronic system with pex pipe and old aluminium printing plates used to clamp the pex to the underside of the floor, then I applied closed cell foamboard to seal and insulate it. This does require access under the house floor to install. It is one of the best, and cheapest sources of clean heat available. It does make a bit of rumbling noise at night, but not loud enough to disturb anybody. I also designed a more efficient burner that now gives complete combustion, lowering a polished piece of stainless steel into the exhaust flu comes out shiny after hours of use. Apologies for the rant... just build one.
Beats the hell right out of those silly little tea light and ceramic pot things that people have been calling heaters. We had one when I lived in Maine and it was my favorite possession!
For your next prototype, you might try this to keep your fuel from leaking out from around the bottom of the can. Use the can as your template, make your mark, but cut the hole smaller than the diameter of the can. Then make slices radially out to your mark. Put the can on top, then bend the tabs up and in to the bottom. That gives you a little bent up lip to trap the fuel in the bowl. Secure it with a couple sheet metal screws if you want. One on either side will do fine.
Hi Gerry, while doing some repairs to my oil system last July, inspired by your videos, I took a close look at the tank itself and was horrified to discover some cracks on a corner of the tank where the plastic had gone a whitish colour. I marked their length and put a ratchet strap around the tank as it was full. A few days later the cracks had grown slightly so a new tank was delivered by a Clontarf-based company who drained the tank, installed the new one, refilled the oil (filtered) and disposed of the old tank - all for a very good price! A tank failure is a catastrophe - someone I know had one and it has cost about €20K with clean-ups, legal actions by neighbours and EPA inspections. Three years later the work is still going on. Might be worth a video to remind people to examine their tanks periodically, especially after ten years.
like he said,it puts out a shit ton of heat,i have a lot of used oil,this is best suited for a shop where you can keep your eyes on it constantly,i like it,open flames are nutty ,this is not open flame,its enclosed in the wood burner for more heat tranfer to the heavy metal of the burner,i'm building one,thank you,when you closed the door it started breathing,drawing
Thanks for showing us the concept, completely understand it’s a prototype. I like the thought of using canola or vegetable oils, because I will never I see ingest them, lol. My used motor oil would be cool too. Again, thanks for the lesson!
So I need two tins, a step drill bit, Copper tubing with fitting, container to hold oil, wood burning stove, exhaust piping. So it went from 3 dollars to 1,000.
I really love your videos that cover all sort of things. What I am wondering if you could make batch box rocket stove ??? Something with ultra efficiency and a short rocket stove cylinder. This way you can use regular size wood and load the stove for 12 to 18 hours of burn. Thanks and keep up the great work too.
Hi Heyyou Buddy. That sounds great and this burner is well able to produce lots of heat. Obviously a welded setup will last longer and just needs to be cleaned out after a few burns. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
@@GerrysDiy I only need to make about 750 to 800f so I will have scale it down a little. I really enjoy and look forward to your videos. I love the idea of making what I need out of scrap, give things new life and save money. I like being independent and living free. I just moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to mountains, I retired and now I build the things I need. This spring I will buy a Lucas saw mill so I can build from my own trees, and saw for hire when I can. Again thank you so much for sharing.
These things have been used almost as long as forever . They were called smudge pots used in orchards to protect plants from freezing. This is a small version and yes they do work .
very good, also so also add some drup of water doing very strong flame i heard, i never tried it, they do is in sugar shack for maple syrup evaporation at spring.
A globe valve would be a much better choice for the drip mechanism than a gate valve. Globe valves are designed for throttling flow whereas gate valves are for either wide open or shut. Other than that, good video. Stay warm.
We go behind restraunts and get recycle Cotton Seed Oil mostly, here in Nashvillle and use a hand crank turned pump all Nashville Tennessee Restraunts, a grease 55 barrel is a must, as we have, three home made cooking Oil, recysled, by straining it, thru screen wire, burn the crud too, let it dry, on stacked shelves 2" apart, a dried chicken skin dried in cooking oil burns hot. Free restraunte Grease, you need a pump.
That’s really cool. For a more permanent, what about 4” caste iron sewer pipe instead of the coffee can and and a caste iron Dutch oven instead of the cookie tin?
The little diesel parking heaters use a "pulse" pump that delivers a known volume of fuel every time the 12V power is cycled. This could be a good replacement for your drip feed because it is easy to accurately control the fuel flow rate, and you don't need to rig up a gravity feed. It would be simple to build a circuit to supply adjustable pulses, turn off after an hour, behave like a thermostat.
@@campervancreations7656 Hi Jamie. Jesse was suggesting using the pump off one of these units as a feed and control it with a r-Pi as a speed controller. I'm not sure it would like engine oil but might be happier with veggie oil if it was heated a little. Have a couple of raspberry pi's here and some android D1 mini's Not sure at the moment what the pump is capable of but might be worth a look. Have another pump in mind at the minute too. We will have to do another Collab soon Jamie, what do you think Cheers Gerry 👍
That sounds like a great idea, a collab sounds like a fantastic opportunity. I've a great idea in involving fire and safety. I have a gear pump that can be variable speed, might be a Good way of controlling the speed and thus the veggie oil feed speed. Here all weekend. Jamie
Its an old barrel wod burner kit and is under $100 last time I looked. So if you can use old cooking grease it would just cost you under $100 to heat garageor whatever all winterand years to come if built right. It was a great video explaininghow it works.
It can still be found and noone cares but some places consider it theft now to. I think McDonald's is using it for fueling their trucks. We just built the local one a steel secure encloser to lock it up. 🤷♂️
How are ye Jason? 😜 The shed is fairly big but these burners keep me toasty even when it snows. Not that it snows that much here in Ireland. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍👍
"Будет лучше, чем в Европе? Школы Башкирии стали активно закупаться дровами на предстоящую зиму Также этот вид топлива оказался необходим и для больниц"
I wonder if i could make a portable one for camping ect using a calor camping gas 907 bottle as the main stove body with miniature burner inside.. carry it all in a bag with the flue and a bottle of oil... will a tiny one work as well?
Hi Robert. Here's one I made with a calor bottle a few years ago but it needs a flue and is messy with the oil etc. Great for a shed or building but not a great design for camping I think th-cam.com/video/bRaVPMt3QQ0/w-d-xo.html Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy I was thinking about fitting the air tube with the holes drilled in into the bottom end of the gas bottle and fitting the fuel on the top then dripping the oil into the bottle it's self. So the bottle is the burner and heat radiator. ..rather than placing a burner inside a stove...
Gerry, I mentioned to a mate that it's not good to use petrol for burning brush piles. One could make a fuel of himself He said he prefers diesel fuel.😆
Hi Gerry, love your vids, made a waste oil burner myself for in my workshop. Made it from a 50cm diameter pipe, 80cm's long and capped it at both ends, made a door in the bottom and an exhaust to the outside. Running across a bit of a problem right now, it's burning very sooty, I'm using a stainless cooking pan on the bottom, raised it about 1/1.5 cm of the floor and made a 10cm hole in the bottom underneath for fresh air. Any suggestions on how I could solve it burning more efficiently? I've tried using a fan in the bottom hole, but that only creates more smoke. Thanks in advance!
I loved your demonstration of great heat from a biscuit tin and a dog food can. But I am from Texas and we often talk and listen slower than other folks. No problem. I will gladly play that video multiple times.
Gerry, I just started my research on building my own waist oil burner. However I have yet to run across the/ a video of all the copper pipes and connections needed to make the drip line. Almost every video i have watched says they put something inside the copper pipe, just above the oil flow site hole. Can you share what's inside the pipe? I have searched your comments but haven't located it. I am interested in the whole gravity feed pipe construction. From the hole in the bucket to the all the way to the burn pot. Thanks for reading. Have a blessed day!
Sir I see your list and have watched a couple of vidios. Im 63 retired with a ton of fabrication and build ideas from steel. I started at 7 and had alot of good teachers. I have sold off almost all my tools and equipment now but have a predicament. Hospital trips and all with the wifes passing has put me in a nice travel trailer. Not bitchig but im comming up on another expensive winter to keep warm. I say all this because i was able to build almost anything i needed but needed plans when i was in new teritory. Might you have a small waste oil burner heater on here? Prototype or not. I live in a parking lot behind a auto repair shop and they would love for me to burn up some old oil. I hope this finds you well and does find you. Thanks in advance Bob H
That's hilarious! I fricking hate metric. It's the dumbest thing ever. All the arguments for it being better are exactly backwards. I blame it on government run education.
@@PneumaticFrog Idiot. What's half of .55? I dunno. What's half of 7/16? Easy. 7/32. And that's just one example. They didn't just randomly make this stuff upà
I knew a marine mechanic who saved all the used engine oil from jobs. He would collect it, filter it, and feed it to a modified forced air furnace in his house. (I think he just changed out the Oil Burner Nozzle). Free heat. Probably not that enviro friendly though.
What is environmentally safe..? Yes some fuels burn cleaner. But you have to capture the whole carbon footprint to get the answer. Planet of the humans is an eye opening documentary.
@@zayferdevelopment313 have you ever seen the gas cans that explode when pouring on the fire? I understand that the oil has a higher Flashpoint than gas, I was just asking what kind of preventative measures was there to prevent it from flowing back up. On a propane tank/grill you have a regulator to regulate the amount of gas, but also prevent the flame from traveling back to the tank.
@@lunam08ify Nope, but i have seen flame flash up to spout opening but no further. They do NOT 'explode'. Combustion cannot travel further up into spout or can due to lack of oxygen...😳
Hi Jon The flue in my shed is 14 feet and 6 inch internal diameter. The dog food tin is 4 inch in diameter and 7 inches long. The holes in the tin are 1/2 inch and I have 30 holes in total. All holes are inside the tin and so that they spray against the walls of the sweet tin. Hope this helps Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi Dan. This one has a 6 inch flue and it's 14 feet long. That makes enough draw / pull on the stove to make the burner work without the need for a fan. Good luck with your experiments Cheers Gerry 👍
I had some rocket stoves ready finally got to use them 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱 I seen people busting open fire hydrants for water 💦 it’s getting real stay strapped boomsticks and condoms people!!
Thanks Gerry, I live in north west Australia and need a heater for about 2 weeks of the year, this is perfect and you explain it like old mate in the shed. Questions, what stops the burnback in the oil feeder line, for inside use do I need to make a hot box with a smoke exhaust? No glass on front?
Good demonstration. And essential remark that it’s a prototype. Meanwhile the color of the flame shows that combustion is not complete enough. Did you try to reach blue flame in such construction? I mean constructions without air pump, with only natural air flow?
No have not tried to make the flame blue yet. I have welded this design in heavier metal and can get it to burn clean as in bright white. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi miniglasi. If I were to brush the chimney it would be very little soot or ash from when I use the stove for burning wood etc. The flue is not oily or wet at all. Been running these stoves for years now but the trick is to have them running hot and not to have them smoky or restricted. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
Hi Jamie Really enjoy your youtube channel by the way. Glad you liked the build Jamie. These little burners won't last long but once tried to see how they perform it's very easy to make changes and get it right before committing the design to steel. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi Charles. There is more metal in the brake disk and once it gets red hot it helps with combustion the lid of the tin would just curl up with the heat I think. It's a great little design of a burner and works really well. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍
Hi Tel twosheds. Thanks I have made a couple of hundred videos now and spent a bit on gear since that attempt but the stoves and burners work great for heating the shed. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@PL-fc6hm might be to stabilise it voz I just thought. With the ferocity of the flames it would probably knock it over. And I doubt there's and glue that would withstand it too.
Nah - other things could be used as a substitute oil collector and central pipe/flue - instead of the Biscuit/ cooky tin as those might one day become collector's items - you never know what people value these days that once upon a time were commonplace items - that for some odd reason become collectibles down the track.😉 A car or brake drum could be used as the oil collector for example and it would be more permanent wouldn't burn away with extreme heat - which Gerry's prototype model seems to produce in abundance.😉 I'd love to know the oil consumption rate though at maximum oil flow through - but his innovative flow rate adjuster is pretty cool too as all the parts he used can be gotten from a local hardware or plumbing supplier. 🙃
One thing you should note, one of the by-products of combusting hydrocarbons is water vapor. Unless you are venting the exhaust outside of the house, you are dumping water vapor in to your interior, which will over time migrate in to the walls, condense, and cause mold. Run a dehumidifier (which throws off a little heat) to keep the air dried out.
Where o you get waste oil? In the USA, used engine oil is recycled and refined into new engine oil, or we use it (if you change your own oil) to lubricate the chain on the chainsaw. Restaurants have waste oil 'dumpsters' but they will not give you any, and will prosecute if you steal any.
Burns Great. Sawdust and Veggie oil mixed as fuel. th-cam.com/video/8TNueNfDJTg/w-d-xo.html Cheers Gerry
Good video. Gerry, can you talk us through what's happening? I'm guessing the air flows up from underneath and comes out the drilled holes and passes over the oil which is burning and being dripped into the biscuit chin area and somehow this cool air coming at the bottom of the flame mixing with the fresh oil starting to burn help to create the rising bright yellow flame.
Is that what's happening?
Fresh cold air coming out of those holes, feeding the hot burning oil, like a fan as you said?
Liquid oil doesn’t burn. Heating it or burning kerosene causes oil vapors. The oil vapor and fresh air from the drilled holes are what is combusting.
@@undertow2142 oh thanks. I'm guessing controlling the airflow could be a bit like a throttle?
@@Google_Does_Evil_Now probably better to control the heat output by varying the oil drip rate. Ideally only enough air to burn the volume of oil vapor would enter the furnace. Any extra is just lost btu’s to the outdoors.
I used to weld workshop heaters that used the waste engine oil from cars/ trucks etc. I made the firebox from 3mm mild steel, but they were banned in EU because of the emissions. Watching this makes me wonder if the company that i used to make them for, couldn't have just switched fuels, because the principle looks similar.
Awesome Video.. People FEAR what they Do Not Understand.
Lots of skeptics making comments, they probably work for the utility companies. Good work Gerry.
Wise up
Finally, someone who speaks English. Thumbs up. Subscribed.
Tweaker vs survivalist is a fine line......and we walk it
Keep headlight handy
I thought a tweaker was a meth head 🤔
Well Said Doc! 🤣🤣 Always methin around with new survival methods!
@@cellington416 🤣
There is a difference in tweaking and tinkering
I was actually researching everything I needed to make something like this yesterday and this popped up. Thank you for the help
Hi Vaulting Gamer. The great thing with this one is that you can try a few designs without spending much time or money. 😜 Thanks for commenting and good luck with your project Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Weird how our phones know what we want
Big brother for ya 😂🤣😂
That was a great example of the simple principles of burning used oil, thank you Gerry.
Sitting here in deep freeze country, soaking callused sore foot in a bucket of used french fry grease, watching Gerry cut cookie tins. So much for my life.
Hi U OL Hope your feet get well. Thanks for commenting Made me smilie Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Yep Gerry, you have come a long way, been watching your videos for a few years, very professional set up now, - I just love how it roars, simply from the air intake drawn in from the bottom, no fans necessary - Excellent work Gerry.
My uncle who was a farmer and drove race cars. Had this exact same setup in his Race car shop on the farm. It worked great.
I used a bunt cake pan made from steel that has a cone already stamped into the center and capped the center with another can with the air holes. The natural draft makes a real hot fire. Thanks for the video! Cheers.
Nice job. I heated my cabin with a version of this burner back in the freezing winters of the 1970s. It would burn any kind of oil, from red diesel to cooking oil.
Years ago I used to heat my large workshop with a wonderful device called a salamander oil burning stove. They have been illegal in the UK for a long time now. I had some great times with "sally" in that workshop.
Remember them well,back in the 1960: L,M Autos,Basingstoke,happy days,🤠🍺🍺
Love, love, love that you speed through "actions". Too many fill up a video time with things that are un-necessary for us to watch plus the volume is turned way up and we have to listen to several minutes of a loud tool doing the same thing over and over.(totally unnecessary) THANK YOU!!!
The pan can also be made from an old brake drum, they last almost forever and radiate well.
I built a fan forced one many years ago to heat water and run under floor hydronic heating, and as I built the whole thing into a detached shed
it also serves as a great clothes dryer in winter. I recently upgraded to a pulse pump system rather than babbit style, and fuel consumption is now under 1l/hour.
I get free oil from a heavy machinery company as used hydraulic oil, it looks pristine and has no contaminates visible. There is no smoke or smell once started and
it heats a 200L repurposed and modified (ex electric) stainless hot water cylinder in just a few hours. I control that temp to 50C using a thermostatic valve to divert
excess heat to our 22kL water storage tank, keeping it above painfully cold and reducing freeze risk. I feed that HWC water into the house to the inlet side of two
Bosch instant gas water heaters. The gas heaters only add the differential heat from input to output, so gas consumption through winter when the waste oil heater runs
is almost zero, but if either system runs out of fuel, there is still always hot water available. I made the hydronic system with pex pipe and old aluminium printing plates
used to clamp the pex to the underside of the floor, then I applied closed cell foamboard to seal and insulate it. This does require access under the house floor to install.
It is one of the best, and cheapest sources of clean heat available. It does make a bit of rumbling noise at night, but not loud enough to disturb anybody.
I also designed a more efficient burner that now gives complete combustion, lowering a polished piece of stainless steel into the exhaust flu comes out shiny after hours of use.
Apologies for the rant... just build one.
wow, sounds interesting! you should show us a video of it, I'm sure many would want my to see it
God Bless all. Thank you for your great video.
Beats the hell right out of those silly little tea light and ceramic pot things that people have been calling heaters. We had one when I lived in Maine and it was my favorite possession!
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge
For your next prototype, you might try this to keep your fuel from leaking out from around the bottom of the can.
Use the can as your template, make your mark, but cut the hole smaller than the diameter of the can.
Then make slices radially out to your mark.
Put the can on top, then bend the tabs up and in to the bottom.
That gives you a little bent up lip to trap the fuel in the bowl.
Secure it with a couple sheet metal screws if you want.
One on either side will do fine.
That is genuinely genius
Hi Gerry, while doing some repairs to my oil system last July, inspired by your videos, I took a close look at the tank itself and was horrified to discover some cracks on a corner of the tank where the plastic had gone a whitish colour. I marked their length and put a ratchet strap around the tank as it was full. A few days later the cracks had grown slightly so a new tank was delivered by a Clontarf-based company who drained the tank, installed the new one, refilled the oil (filtered) and disposed of the old tank - all for a very good price! A tank failure is a catastrophe - someone I know had one and it has cost about €20K with clean-ups, legal actions by neighbours and EPA inspections. Three years later the work is still going on. Might be worth a video to remind people to examine their tanks periodically, especially after ten years.
like he said,it puts out a shit ton of heat,i have a lot of used oil,this is best suited for a shop where you can keep your eyes on it constantly,i like it,open flames are nutty ,this is not open flame,its enclosed in the wood burner for more heat tranfer to the heavy metal of the burner,i'm building one,thank you,when you closed the door it started breathing,drawing
Nice job. That looks like it is burning really well.
You are a natural . Hobo technician
Great to see you again Gerry, hope your well and healthy....
Cheers Joey Happy 2021 Best to yourself and your family. Hope your recovery is going well. 👍👍👍
If only Texas knew about this...
This burner does not need any power and will work in the snow but sad that Texas had such a hard time of it. Cheers Gerry 👍
Thanks for showing us the concept, completely understand it’s a prototype. I like the thought of using canola or vegetable oils, because I will never I see ingest them, lol. My used motor oil would be cool too. Again, thanks for the lesson!
So I need two tins, a step drill bit, Copper tubing with fitting, container to hold oil, wood burning stove, exhaust piping. So it went from 3 dollars to 1,000.
I did something similar with a stack of vented car rotors. Lots of slots for air flow and significant mass for a heat battery...
Okay then, . Very ingenious, just when I thought I've seen it all.
That design really is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
I really love your videos that cover all sort of things. What I am wondering if you could make batch box rocket stove ??? Something with ultra efficiency and a short rocket stove cylinder. This way you can use regular size wood and load the stove for 12 to 18 hours of burn. Thanks and keep up the great work too.
Great suggestion! Victory First. I have the steel in the shed at the moment for this project. More on this soon. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy I look forward to see more videos from you Sir. Peace, Vic
Hi Gerry thank you for showing us this. I will use this to run my waste oil Distillation system, to make first run diesel from waste motor oil.
Hi Heyyou Buddy. That sounds great and this burner is well able to produce lots of heat. Obviously a welded setup will last longer and just needs to be cleaned out after a few burns. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
@@GerrysDiy I only need to make about 750 to 800f so I will have scale it down a little. I really enjoy and look forward to your videos. I love the idea of making what I need out of scrap, give things new life and save money. I like being independent and living free. I just moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to mountains, I retired and now I build the things I need. This spring I will buy a Lucas saw mill so I can build from my own trees, and saw for hire when I can. Again thank you so much for sharing.
Brilliant concept , good way to use waste oil from restaurants
You must have had that quality street along time Gerry.
i love this simple effective survival tool
These things have been used almost as long as forever . They were called smudge pots used in orchards to protect plants from freezing. This is a small version and yes they do work .
Hi Jim. This one is my own design but the idea is simple. Heat the burner red hot and drop in the fuel. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
very good, also so also add some drup of water doing very strong flame i heard, i never tried it, they do is in sugar shack for maple syrup evaporation at spring.
Very good idea. This way we do not need fan. Thanks.
A globe valve would be a much better choice for the drip mechanism than a gate valve. Globe valves are designed for throttling flow whereas gate valves are for either wide open or shut. Other than that, good video. Stay warm.
You can make a waste oil burner out of these two tins.
And this big steel box.
And a modified brake disc.
And...........
Give this guy likes and million views come on people ❤
Cool, I often use wasted oil as eco-friendly lubricant oil for my chainsaw.
You have a lovely personality !
We go behind restraunts and get recycle Cotton Seed Oil mostly, here in Nashvillle and use a hand crank turned pump all Nashville Tennessee Restraunts, a grease 55 barrel is a must, as we have, three home made cooking Oil, recysled, by straining it, thru screen wire, burn the crud too, let it dry, on stacked shelves 2" apart, a dried chicken skin dried in cooking oil burns hot. Free restraunte Grease, you need a pump.
Too many commas
Simplicity and brilliant thanks for your video
Yes, proper unit of measure "...an absolute shit-ton of heat...", love it!
Well done Gerry! If you made one once per week, I would still watch.
Cheers!
Doc
Wow, thanks! Doc. Just watched one of your videos. Well done Cheers Gerry 👍
That’s really cool. For a more permanent, what about 4” caste iron sewer pipe instead of the coffee can and and a caste iron Dutch oven instead of the cookie tin?
If you can drill through it don't see y not
The little diesel parking heaters use a "pulse" pump that delivers a known volume of fuel every time the 12V power is cycled. This could be a good replacement for your drip feed because it is easy to accurately control the fuel flow rate, and you don't need to rig up a gravity feed. It would be simple to build a circuit to supply adjustable pulses, turn off after an hour, behave like a thermostat.
Great point! Jesse Will have a look at that. Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hey Gerry, you actually did a video on the diesel heater, must be getting a bit forgetful.
@@campervancreations7656 Hi Jamie. Jesse was suggesting using the pump off one of these units as a feed and control it with a r-Pi as a speed controller. I'm not sure it would like engine oil but might be happier with veggie oil if it was heated a little. Have a couple of raspberry pi's here and some android D1 mini's Not sure at the moment what the pump is capable of but might be worth a look. Have another pump in mind at the minute too. We will have to do another Collab soon Jamie, what do you think Cheers Gerry 👍
That sounds like a great idea, a collab sounds like a fantastic opportunity. I've a great idea in involving fire and safety. I have a gear pump that can be variable speed, might be a Good way of controlling the speed and thus the veggie oil feed speed. Here all weekend. Jamie
Missleading. Was left with the impression that the cans were all I needed. Still need the stove
Its an old barrel wod burner kit and is under $100 last time I looked. So if you can use old cooking grease it would just cost you under $100 to heat garageor whatever all winterand years to come if built right. It was a great video explaininghow it works.
You don't need the stove. It's just a little carbon monoxide. You'll be fine.
There are always buckets of oil behind the takeaway shops good idea
It can still be found and noone cares but some places consider it theft now to.
I think McDonald's is using it for fueling their trucks.
We just built the local one a steel secure encloser to lock it up. 🤷♂️
Love your videos every days a learning day 👍🏼
Hi Clem. Thanks for commenting Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Now that is recycling!! Great vid Gerry! First time visiting your channel,but it won't be the last for sure. Have liked and scribed.
is there need to seal a high can with a "low" can?
Gerry you are a wizard
How are ye Jason? 😜 The shed is fairly big but these burners keep me toasty even when it snows. Not that it snows that much here in Ireland. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍👍
What about the copper tubing inside the stove? Wouldnt it get to hot and maybe melt or cause a fire? Btw this is a great video and plan on making one.
Many views from Europe.
"Будет лучше, чем в Европе? Школы Башкирии стали активно закупаться дровами на предстоящую зиму
Также этот вид топлива оказался необходим и для больниц"
Yes, another video of Gerry, can't wait
Thanks for the comment mr Goaterson . Cheers Gerry 😀
I wonder if i could make a portable one for camping ect using a calor camping gas 907 bottle as the main stove body with miniature burner inside.. carry it all in a bag with the flue and a bottle of oil... will a tiny one work as well?
Hi Robert. Here's one I made with a calor bottle a few years ago but it needs a flue and is messy with the oil etc. Great for a shed or building but not a great design for camping I think th-cam.com/video/bRaVPMt3QQ0/w-d-xo.html Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy I was thinking about fitting the air tube with the holes drilled in into the bottom end of the gas bottle and fitting the fuel on the top then dripping the oil into the bottle it's self. So the bottle is the burner and heat radiator. ..rather than placing a burner inside a stove...
Love that auld pioneer!
Gerry, I mentioned to a mate that it's not good to use petrol for burning brush piles. One could make a fuel of himself
He said he prefers diesel fuel.😆
Oh wow, a cookie tin that _isn't_ full of sewing supplies!
lol, for real.
hi ,did one with cotton ball wet with baby oil last long time.
It only took 2 videos for me to subscribe to your channel. Well done sir
Great format ,straight up no bs kinda video. Thanks for sharing and owning it .🇦🇺
Hi madsnoop7 Thanks for taking the time to comment Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍
Hi Gerry, love your vids, made a waste oil burner myself for in my workshop. Made it from a 50cm diameter pipe, 80cm's long and capped it at both ends, made a door in the bottom and an exhaust to the outside. Running across a bit of a problem right now, it's burning very sooty, I'm using a stainless cooking pan on the bottom, raised it about 1/1.5 cm of the floor and made a 10cm hole in the bottom underneath for fresh air. Any suggestions on how I could solve it burning more efficiently? I've tried using a fan in the bottom hole, but that only creates more smoke. Thanks in advance!
I loved your demonstration of great heat from a biscuit tin and a dog food can. But I am from Texas and we often talk and listen slower than other folks. No problem. I will gladly play that video multiple times.
That works really nice. Nice Job!
Gerry,
I just started my research on building my own waist oil burner.
However I have yet to run across the/ a video of all the copper pipes and connections needed to make the drip line.
Almost every video i have watched says they put something inside the copper pipe, just above the oil flow site hole.
Can you share what's inside the pipe?
I have searched your comments but haven't located it.
I am interested in the whole gravity feed pipe construction. From the hole in the bucket to the all the way to the burn pot.
Thanks for reading. Have a blessed day!
Sir
I see your list and have watched a couple of vidios.
Im 63 retired with a ton of fabrication and build ideas from steel.
I started at 7 and had alot of good teachers.
I have sold off almost all my tools and equipment now but have a predicament.
Hospital trips and all with the wifes passing has put me in a nice travel trailer. Not bitchig but im comming up on another expensive winter to keep warm. I say all this because i was able to build almost anything i needed but needed plans when i was in new teritory.
Might you have a small waste oil burner heater on here?
Prototype or not.
I live in a parking lot behind a auto repair shop and they would love for me to burn up some old oil.
I hope this finds you well and does find you.
Thanks in advance
Bob H
Was that a metric shit tonne or an imperial shit ton of heat?
Hi Keith. Thaough that I had beeped it out but might go with metric 😜 Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
That's hilarious! I fricking hate metric. It's the dumbest thing ever. All the arguments for it being better are exactly backwards. I blame it on government run education.
@@jackasschicken5922 are you dumb? metric is counted in 10's. its so simple, imperial makes no damn sense.
@@PneumaticFrog Idiot. What's half of .55? I dunno. What's half of 7/16? Easy. 7/32. And that's just one example. They didn't just randomly make this stuff upà
I knew a marine mechanic who saved all the used engine oil from jobs. He would collect it, filter it, and feed it to a modified forced air furnace in his house. (I think he just changed out the Oil Burner Nozzle). Free heat. Probably not that enviro friendly though.
That oil is better burned than dumped in a river or landfill.
@@bladeoflucatiel I agree on that. But most motor oil is now recycled into new motor oil anyway.
What is environmentally safe..? Yes some fuels burn cleaner. But you have to capture the whole carbon footprint to get the answer. Planet of the humans is an eye opening documentary.
@@kimchristensen2175 Or burned in powerplants.
So you have a drip fueling the fire, what is preventing the fire from traveling up the oil into the pipe and into the storage tank?
Lack of oxygen genius
@@zayferdevelopment313 have you ever seen the gas cans that explode when pouring on the fire? I understand that the oil has a higher Flashpoint than gas, I was just asking what kind of preventative measures was there to prevent it from flowing back up. On a propane tank/grill you have a regulator to regulate the amount of gas, but also prevent the flame from traveling back to the tank.
@@lunam08ify Nope, but i have seen flame flash up to spout opening but no further. They do NOT 'explode'. Combustion cannot travel further up into spout or can due to lack of oxygen...😳
Seth Luman Cooking oils don't combust like that. They need considerable pre heating. Fire simply wouldn't travel back up a pipe of cold cooking oil.
Jon in KY U.S. of A. 6in pipe how many holes and what dia thank you.
Hi Jon The flue in my shed is 14 feet and 6 inch internal diameter. The dog food tin is 4 inch in diameter and 7 inches long. The holes in the tin are 1/2 inch and I have 30 holes in total. All holes are inside the tin and so that they spray against the walls of the sweet tin. Hope this helps Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy thank you sorry to bother
Thanks for the video Gerry 😁 I was experimenting with oil burners today and this should definitely help👍
Hi Dan. This one has a 6 inch flue and it's 14 feet long. That makes enough draw / pull on the stove to make the burner work without the need for a fan. Good luck with your experiments Cheers Gerry 👍
What are you feeding a Bullmastiff?
Great, Texas is saved....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are suffering at the moment. Hopefully the power is restored and we get a big swing in temperature. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍
I had some rocket stoves ready finally got to use them 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱 I seen people busting open fire hydrants for water 💦 it’s getting real stay strapped boomsticks and condoms people!!
Great stuff Gerry, could you use burnt engine oil.
Thanks Gerry, I live in north west Australia and need a heater for about 2 weeks of the year, this is perfect and you explain it like old mate in the shed. Questions, what stops the burnback in the oil feeder line, for inside use do I need to make a hot box with a smoke exhaust? No glass on front?
Good demonstration. And essential remark that it’s a prototype. Meanwhile the color of the flame shows that combustion is not complete enough. Did you try to reach blue flame in such construction? I mean constructions without air pump, with only natural air flow?
No have not tried to make the flame blue yet. I have welded this design in heavier metal and can get it to burn clean as in bright white. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy Have you got a video?
By burning waste oil, how bad is the soot in the flute? Any ?
Hi miniglasi. If I were to brush the chimney it would be very little soot or ash from when I use the stove for burning wood etc. The flue is not oily or wet at all. Been running these stoves for years now but the trick is to have them running hot and not to have them smoky or restricted. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
Can it be use in house, is it have hazardus vapor?
Wouldn’t be safe in a house
This would work indoors just like a wood stove. You need the exhaust going outside like a normal wood burning stove.
I was wondering how the flame doesn't go up the tube that's dripping the oil right inside the pan.
An excellent way of transferring the waste oil to the atmosphere isn't it? 🤣🤣
John~
American Net'Zen
Gerry you done me over, I don't have have the oven bejesus or the drip feed system me son, I thought you were building one room heater me son there
Really great video, I love the simplicity of it. It can be done with very basic tool. Thanks for making it. Jamie
Hi Jamie Really enjoy your youtube channel by the way. Glad you liked the build Jamie. These little burners won't last long but once tried to see how they perform it's very easy to make changes and get it right before committing the design to steel. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi Gerry, I just watched a vid about a biomass boiler. Show us how to make one please??
How do guys like this thrive with such a nice garage? I don't get it.
Money. Makes life easier
On safety side, does the waste oil have the potential of coating the chimney like creosote with potential of a chimney fire?
instead of rotor could you use the top of the tin?
Hi Charles. There is more metal in the brake disk and once it gets red hot it helps with combustion the lid of the tin would just curl up with the heat I think. It's a great little design of a burner and works really well. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍
Yeah. This video was much better than the first. But they were both very good information. Thanks for sharing
I appreciate that! Cheers Gerry 👍
Much better than the first vid😄😁
Hi Tel twosheds. Thanks I have made a couple of hundred videos now and spent a bit on gear since that attempt but the stoves and burners work great for heating the shed. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Is it really necessary to cut the hole in the sweet tin??????
that's what I was thinking as well
@@PL-fc6hm might be to stabilise it voz I just thought. With the ferocity of the flames it would probably knock it over. And I doubt there's and glue that would withstand it too.
@@sararockafella that makes sense. thanks for sharing your thoughts on the matter 👍
That's where the air enters in, up from underneath then out the holes in the side of the tin; the fire needs oxygen in this manner to burn hot.
Nah - other things could be used as a substitute oil collector and central pipe/flue - instead of the Biscuit/ cooky tin as those might one day become collector's items - you never know what people value these days that once upon a time were commonplace items - that for some odd reason become collectibles down the track.😉 A car or brake drum could be used as the oil collector for example and it would be more permanent wouldn't burn away with extreme heat - which Gerry's prototype model seems to produce in abundance.😉 I'd love to know the oil consumption rate though at maximum oil flow through - but his innovative flow rate adjuster is pretty cool too as all the parts he used can be gotten from a local hardware or plumbing supplier. 🙃
Very good. I built the one from a few years ago. It works well.
Hey Paul. I made one too but it smokes a lot. Does urs? And did u do anything different
@@marcelwilloughby1483 mine only smokes in the beginning, once the metal is hot it doesn't. I assume you need more input air. Good luck
Have you tested the rate if oil burned and the heat levels you achieve
One thing you should note, one of the by-products of combusting hydrocarbons is water vapor. Unless you are venting the exhaust outside of the house, you are dumping water vapor in to your interior, which will over time migrate in to the walls, condense, and cause mold. Run a dehumidifier (which throws off a little heat) to keep the air dried out.
Yes, that's why burning candles in your home or having a gas stove will create black mold everywhere. So much water in oils.
It will go great with my curtains in my lounge
Gerry,
Can you build a waste oil boiler to heat water for hydronic heating?
Check his older vids he did
My wood-burning fireplace insert makes the same roaring sound by adjusting the bottom air gate.
Where o you get waste oil? In the USA, used engine oil is recycled and refined into new engine oil, or we use it (if you change your own oil) to lubricate the chain on the chainsaw.
Restaurants have waste oil 'dumpsters' but they will not give you any, and will prosecute if you steal any.