Love your videos my friend. I have a home shop that looks about the size of your. I,m building a wast oil heater, but a little different. But I love watching what others as you do things a little different. I wish I lived closer, cause I would love to meet you. But I live in East Okla. I,m a machinist so the two of us would have much in common.
Do you think bigger pipe running through the top barrel would give more air flow and therefore more heat our from the fan on the back? I want someone else to do all the work first so when I build one all the troubles are already worked out! lol
A) there is fan forced air blowing through the outer tube, fan forcing a clean burn and feeding the fire along with cooling the copper tube carrying the oil to prevent coaking up of oil in the tube. B) for the fire to travel back to my oil container it would have to burn up 4’ of copper tubing to get to the funnel then jump up 4” to the needle valve then travel another 5’ up the plastic tubing to the oil container. C) fire needs 3 things to burn-heat, fuel and oxygen. In that small tube it wouldn’t have much of a source for oxygen to burn, there wouldn’t be much of a heat source to continue the burn and the fire would have to be able to burn in a completely filled tube of oil after the needle valve on the wall. Drop a match in a bucket of oil, it will immediately go out. Oil has a high flash point it doesn’t have fumes like gas, diesel or kerosene to ignite. Not to mention the fan forced air alone going through the outer pipe alone prevents this from happening at all and in itself will put the fire out if you don’t feed it enough oil.
Stainless steel dog bowl starting out then found a stainless steel sauce pan that worked even better. Hair dryer started sounding sick by the end of winter but still ran, it was one of my wife’s old ones so it had been used hard a year before that. I had the button zip tied on cool so it wasn’t getting burnt up.
I see alot of ideas how to make heaters using waste oil fo rheat, but it always comes down to what will the insurance company think of the idea and if it's covered or not. Kinda late to think about it after a fire and find out you're not covered.
That’s why I built this, I like the idea of putting in the work, saying it’s mine and that I built it and saving money. Not to mention I have a ton of oil with the shop to get rid of, what better way than heating my shop.
Love your videos my friend. I have a home shop that looks about the size of your. I,m building a wast oil heater, but a little different. But I love watching what others as you do
things a little different. I wish I lived closer, cause I would love to meet you. But I live in East
Okla. I,m a machinist so the two of us would have much in common.
Thats awesome, can't beat free heating fuel either.
Sure can’t, not with todays prices.
Do you think bigger pipe running through the top barrel would give more air flow and therefore more heat our from the fan on the back? I want someone else to do all the work first so when I build one all the troubles are already worked out! lol
@@117BMF man that thing gets hot enough, 900-1000 degrees is plenty hot for me.
Have ever got barrel cherry red to hot?
@@timhills4808 no, it has air moving across it constantly. If it didn’t I’m sure it would.
What keeps the fire from traveling back through the copper supply pipe and reaching your used oil vessel??
A) there is fan forced air blowing through the outer tube, fan forcing a clean burn and feeding the fire along with cooling the copper tube carrying the oil to prevent coaking up of oil in the tube. B) for the fire to travel back to my oil container it would have to burn up 4’ of copper tubing to get to the funnel then jump up 4” to the needle valve then travel another 5’ up the plastic tubing to the oil container. C) fire needs 3 things to burn-heat, fuel and oxygen. In that small tube it wouldn’t have much of a source for oxygen to burn, there wouldn’t be much of a heat source to continue the burn and the fire would have to be able to burn in a completely filled tube of oil after the needle valve on the wall. Drop a match in a bucket of oil, it will immediately go out. Oil has a high flash point it doesn’t have fumes like gas, diesel or kerosene to ignite. Not to mention the fan forced air alone going through the outer pipe alone prevents this from happening at all and in itself will put the fire out if you don’t feed it enough oil.
what did you use for the bowl, a dog dish?
In this video it was a dog dish, I have now switched to a 8”x4” stainless steel sauce pan and it makes a better more intense flame.
What kind of bowl did you use for inside firebox? And did you have any issues with running hair dryer nonstop?
Stainless steel dog bowl starting out then found a stainless steel sauce pan that worked even better. Hair dryer started sounding sick by the end of winter but still ran, it was one of my wife’s old ones so it had been used hard a year before that. I had the button zip tied on cool so it wasn’t getting burnt up.
How well does this heat your shop?
Shop is 36x42 14ft side walls. Only thing insulated is the roof. I can work in short sleeves in 20-30 degree outside temps
I see alot of ideas how to make heaters using waste oil fo rheat, but it always comes down to what will the insurance company think of the idea and if it's covered or not. Kinda late to think about it after a fire and find out you're not covered.
It’s just a double barrel stove
Hell ya neighbor!
I didn’t know you had a channel. Thanks for watching neighbor.
Wish i watched this before i spent 2500 on a wood furnace
That’s why I built this, I like the idea of putting in the work, saying it’s mine and that I built it and saving money. Not to mention I have a ton of oil with the shop to get rid of, what better way than heating my shop.
@@AutomedicGarage I got about 60 gallons or so sitting around as well. This would be great
@@AutomedicGarage hopefully the EPA nerds don't get after us for our redneck creations 😂😂😂😂