Hey Jerry, It's been a while since I've dropped in for a look, great to see you're still building burners! It's coming into winter here in New Zealand so time for me to get into making burners again. I love your work!
Thank you so much for Sharing this, i live in Skandinavia and it gets very cold here during the vintertime and it is very expensive to heat up the workshop it’s around 80 squarefod but now i can heat it up for free and i can work even when it’s minus 20˚celsius and saving a lot of money.
Thanks so much Gerry from the 🇺🇲. You have inspired me and I am gathering materials now. I have a 3500 square foot house and a huge pole barn. My dream is to heat all with waste oil. Better than electric heat. I did find someone who has done the same as you but has a different way of getting the heat in the building. If you are interested I can send you the video. You may have already seen. Again thank you so much.
Hi ME. I have made a burner a few years ago and I had it running in a boiler stove. Made lots of steam 😜 I will be making another boiler stove in a few weeks. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍👍
I found air control is the most important part. My wood stove is actually a little too big, but with some extra sheet metal to concentrate the heat it worked really well.
Hi Rudy. That's been my experience too. I have another mod for this stove but I might leave it a while as I have posted lots of stove videos lately but this thing is running really well and making lots of heat reliably. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
I really like this idea. I am going to modify and old wood stove I have in my garage shop space. I plan to use a stainless large dig bowl for the Tin and stainless 6" flue pipe for the Stack. Disc rotor and Im all set.
Thanks for sharing your design, it's brilliant. I'll be utilizing a rather deep stainless steel lid, turned upside down & one of those small propane canisters, that lanterns screw to the top of, as the updraft tube. I've run into a few difficulties living aboard an antique sailboat, but think this may solve at least a couple of them. I've got 2 small propane tanks stacked on top of one another, with a heavy truck rim on the bottom & a spark arrestor on the top. The bottom tank is meant to dispose of non biodegrade household waste. The top tank will have an oil burner like this one and the draft tube from the oil burner will go into the bottom tank. Since a properly functioning oil burner reaches such high temperatures, it should be capable of eliminating pollutants released by burning plastic to it's most basic element... carbon. This is the same idea used by "environmentally friendly" municipal incinerators in the U.S. Aside from no longer having to pack all of my garbage to a dumpster (which isn't very near), I can use the heat produced to flash distill water. I'll add a square tank made from plumbing parts at the top of the upper tank, with two T fittings. One of those fittings leading to a valve to let non potable water in & the other going to a copper condenser, situated inside of a bucket of cold water. In the center of the square tank for flash distillation, will go another coil of copper tubing to be used to heat water. I live in Florida, where a hot shower is hardly missed, but I'd like to have the option to do so.
Great Post Kaiser Sose. Have been to Florida a few times and surprisingly had frost on the car in the mornings while I was there. Of course it was Tee shirts by 10 am but when it gets hot it means business 🤣 Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
Love watching your stove builds. Just got one up and running myself and still tweaking. Mine is a forced air unit as it wasn't practical to do an updraft setup like you tend to use. My issue is I'm getting soot buildup on my glass doors within a few hours of running (faster if I crank it up). I typically run it at a fast drip (any faster of a drip and it would be a steady thin stream). I'm using forced air with the air pipe coming down into the center of the bowl. Air slots in the tube were cut on angles. I use a cut rotor to cover the bowl. The bowl and rotor tend to glow and the fire isn't lazy but still getting soot build up on the inside of the stove walls and glass. Any thoughts on which direction I need to go to help correct this issue or is it just something I'll have to live with? Thanks!
@@GerrysDiy -28 and -30 F here in Northeast Nebraska the last two nights. No wind. I went out this morning at -15 to get firewood up to the house, (give the natural gas a break). Take care and nice to see you!
Hi Blake. The flue is 6 inch diameter and 14 feet long. The flue opening in the stove is also 6 inches Here's the stove build th-cam.com/video/6cHR8FJ5ViY/w-d-xo.html Cheers Gerry 👍
Guess why its free, because they otherwise had to pay for removing the oil. I love the concept, and i store used vegetable oil & engine oil myself, but i dont really plan to burn it, its more of a emergency backup thing, for fuel/heat also if you store it you dont have to pay to remove it haha. I would bet its illegal all over Europe.
It’s funny how all the developed countries say, ‘you citizens are too big for your britches, too hard to control’-so they make everything illegal that would help lift their poorer classes up and make the other classes even more prosperous. On the other hand, the undeveloped countries don’t make such things illegal. So in some regards their leaders love their own countries more than the developed countries’ leaders.
Could you do a similar video using the "conventional" barrel stove kit? I'd be interested to see how you'd set up the underneath air draw type vs your side draw type and which works best
Hi Peter. I know it looks like it would but air is actually being pulled through the pipe into the stove as the flames require oxygen to burn which cools the pipe. On top of that the oil itself cools the pipe as it travels down the pipe to be burned. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
Hi Eugene. These sweet tins are quite hard to get. Most Christmas sweets are in plastic containers and they dont make very good waste oil burners. REally appreciate the support and looking forward to flying paragliders and paramotors with you and Agnes in the Spring Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi. This design works great and at the moment is my preferred option but made from steel works really well and is not too big. The flue length and diameter are important to making this work without a fan. Mys setup is 14 feet flue lengtha ans 6 inhes in diameter. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
Great video Gerry, thanks for filming it. Would it make sense to instead of dripping, try atomizing fuel like car injectors do, in order to even further increase efficiency and prevent soot buildup in the chimney?
do you need the brake rotor? and if not why put it on.?? I would love to see it without it. I'm thinking the negative air pressure is the main cause of the 'fan' sound and major flame increase when the door is shut... the flame has to draw more air in from the bottom... as a suction which super charges the flame. I want to make that on a mico scale... hmmm...
Man u wanna make your room warm or all the earth? If u don't put any iron or metal around or on the flame, it just go up and went out with all energy and heat so u will not get most of heat, that is why there is a metal around all burner, I think it's basics everyone should learnt from school physic lesson.
Hi Gerry, Great idea. It looked like you used the cookie tin and dog food can to prove that the concept worked and switched to thicker metals so the burner would hold up better over time. No smoke would indicate that you have complete combustion. Does that sound right? Thanks for the video! -mike
Hi Mike. That's correct. The Sweet tin burner is just to prove that the burner design is sound but due to the output would not last long. The thicker welded version is the same design but will last a year or more and is also easy to make but needs welding. It does burn clean but with a couple more mods can be made more efficient. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
Hmm, I wonder if that could be adapted to have an integrated 1 gallon tank at the bottom, Like a huge camping stove burner? Im sure there are others like me that have old wood burning furnaces that would like to burn waste vegetable oil. I have tried mixing it with wood pellets and with saw dust but when it gets hot the pellets/saw dust starts to "sweat" oil tha dribbles down to the ash pan. I've been experimenting with a pan with a grate for bottom that sits above a pan that sits above another pan that catches ash and oil where the oil that "sweats" down is burned off . It works but needs refining. Its probably easier to a get burner of the camping stove type working.
Great videos gerry ! I have an old oil control valve from an old oil furnace that has float valves sort of like a carburetor, they contol gravity flow of the furnace oil automatically in the burn chamber, perhaps a video of one of these control valves running waste oil ? Would be interesting if they run a stove efficiently. Or if it would be safe (if filtered) to run these float valves on waste oil ? -thanks
Gerry make a donut out of a carbon felt welding blanket and don’t have drip feed soak a 1 or 2 ltr cooking oil it could burn longer and just top up the wick when opening the door easier
Hi Dave. It's just a chunk of metal that gets red hot and helps convert the veggie oil into a combustable gas. Its a strategic placement though as the heat wants to rise with the flames but are restricted by the brake disk which in turn gets red hot and makes the burn even more agressive. Thanks for commenting Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
It concentrates the flame and heat by deflecting the original flame downwards a bit. Remember he said it was “to deflect the flame a little bit?” That was why.
The oil will only burn once it's vaporized. The oil in the pipe is still in liquid state so there's no threat of retrograde fire. The open fitting outside the drum that the oil runs through also allows air to be sucked in with the oil preventing vacuum which would be needed for the fire to burn retrograde.
I know that this video is 3+ years old, but if you see this. Those used oil containers look like 2 liters. How long would each container last for when using it as fuel. I’ve just subscribed to your channel, and I live in New Orleans, Louisiana USA and it’s very rare that I would need it, but I believe in being prepared at my home for everything. A few years ago southern Texas was hit by the 100 year ice storm that took a few peoples lives, and I won’t allow that to happen to my family. I work outside up in North Dakota so I have clothes that’ll keep me warm at -40° Fahrenheit but my family doesn’t have that kind of cold weather gear. I’ve been looking for a good way to heat up a room in the house that I can close off by hanging quilts at the doorway and windows too keep warm trapped in it we always have a 5 gallon container of Peanut Oil that’s used to fry turkeys and chickens, and I’m having trouble finding anyone saying how long the oil would last as a fuel
I've seen you have burners with holes from the middle and some with holes from the outside. Is one option better then the other? Have you tried one with holes from both the inside and the outside??? I have made a burner from a stainless steel beer keg, with holes on the inside, wondering if I drill a few extra holes on the outside will make it better or worse, cheers for the inspiration
Hi Rod. There is no smell in the shed at all because even with the door of the stove open all the smoke and air for combustion gets drawn into the stove. Outside I dont have any problems with down drafts so it all goes up. When I am on the roof next I'll check but it has not been a problem so far 😜 Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry. 👍
Hi Gerry. I've watched your heating vids with great interest and want to put something together myself to heat my workshop. So I had a thought. Would it be possible to convert an old gas cooker to burn wood and waste oil in the oven? Idea for a video perhaps?
Gas cooktops/ovens aren't really built of robust enough materials to last more than a few uses, unless you have one from the 1950s. They're nothing but bent sheet steel, held together with sheet metal screws. The force exerted from heat warping the sheet steel will sheer the screws in half. The difference between the heat produced by a vaporous gas burner and an oil burner is immense. The way to tell the energy density of a petroleum product is to look at how many hydrogen and carbon atoms need to be strung together to create a molecule of that substance. The more hydrocarbons, the more energy. I have a suspicion that the top of the oven would get hot enough to melt. It would make for a cool video though
Hi Peter. Probably not because you need control over the air intake ( no leaks) and the oven would be too thin to last long. But like the biscuit tin it might last long enough to experiment with it. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
Hi Faithful Tribe. As you may have guessed I am from Dublin Ireland and I'm happy you can at least understand me 🤣 . Great to have you here. Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍👍👍
Well build a duct that collects the chimney exhaust and sends it thru a collection of sprinklers water walls to scrub it cleans, then pour the water down the drain and let the city deal with cleaning it, since your already paying them to. Or What I intend on doing, once I figure it all out, it's mixed the two fuel sources like use wood but supplement it with occasional oil to heat things up a little bit here and there. Or do what your car does and route your primary exhaust back around to mix with clean air and get a second burning before being exhausted at the main exhaust. Or Deny everything, and blame it on the neighbors, and Hufflepuff a lot so people think you're serious and about to go do something.
An addition to my previous comment, making it out of tin cans or aluminium is a bad idea, its a fire hasard because it has a low melting point,as Gerry said at the end of the video that is correct, use Steel instead, if you dont you should not attempt making these.
Another good video. However, although burning waste oil in sweet tins is an economic way of providing heat. One huge drawback is the increased risk of diabetes.
Hi Bob. I have to stop eating sweets to make these videos. It's hard enough to get the tins as well as most of them are plastic now. Thanks for commenting Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍
hi gerry. ....do you have an email address? imagine running a cable over a bunch of houses in order to use a flight sim together!! do you remember who I am?
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mpowr Had a look at your recent diy gaming mod video. Looks easy Well Done 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy Thanks for checking out my video, it really is a very easy and quick mod, great for anyone with that particular shifter.
I missed Ireland and their people . Good on you Gerry, really awesome
Hey Jerry, It's been a while since I've dropped in for a look, great to see you're still building burners! It's coming into winter here in New Zealand so time for me to get into making burners again. I love your work!
Thank you so much for Sharing this, i live in Skandinavia and it gets very cold here during the vintertime and it is very expensive to heat up the workshop it’s around 80 squarefod but now i can heat it up for free and i can work even when it’s minus 20˚celsius and saving a lot of money.
You are so welcome! Good luck with the project and staying warm. Cheers Gerry 👍
Awesome. Love how clean it burns.
Hi MrDoeboy256 It runs great and makes a ton of heat with no fans or power required. Thanks for commenting Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍
Thanks so much Gerry from the 🇺🇲. You have inspired me and I am gathering materials now. I have a 3500 square foot house and a huge pole barn. My dream is to heat all with waste oil. Better than electric heat. I did find someone who has done the same as you but has a different way of getting the heat in the building. If you are interested I can send you the video. You may have already seen. Again thank you so much.
Hi ME. I have made a burner a few years ago and I had it running in a boiler stove. Made lots of steam 😜 I will be making another boiler stove in a few weeks. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍👍
I found air control is the most important part. My wood stove is actually a little too big, but with some extra sheet metal to concentrate the heat it worked really well.
Hi Rudy. That's been my experience too. I have another mod for this stove but I might leave it a while as I have posted lots of stove videos lately but this thing is running really well and making lots of heat reliably. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍👍
You're channel has helped me out so much! Fantastic
Brilliant Gerry absolutely brilliant again great video and the dog is lovely looking forward to the next one 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks JMAIN SNIPES for commenting Really appreciated Cheers Gerry
Great Job and easy to make!! Thank you very match 😃👍👍👍
I'll never look at my tin of Quality Street the same way again... I just get a burning desire to eat - you get a burning desire for heat!!
thx for your experience i would like you to show us how you connected the stove to the chimney going outside thx again
I really like this idea. I am going to modify and old wood stove I have in my garage shop space. I plan to use a stainless large dig bowl for the Tin and stainless 6" flue pipe for the Stack. Disc rotor and Im all set.
I did this with waste oil few years ago, minimal smoke and just smelt a little bit of car exhaust😊❤️
I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Andrew. It's hard to know when making them if they are worth uploading but the comments are very insightful. Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍👍
top vid gerry , great for the winter months , brings a nice warm glow watching this
Hi Dave. I know its just a heater but it makes working in the shed more enjoyable when it's warm. Thanks for commenting Stay warm! Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi Gerry , I've just made a stove but if I run it at 2 lts per hr it get hot an draws well but smokes a lot , any advice please
Thanks Gerry. I look forward to your next video.
Thanks for watching! Dan Cheers Gerry 👍
Thanks for sharing your design, it's brilliant.
I'll be utilizing a rather deep stainless steel lid, turned upside down & one of those small propane canisters, that lanterns screw to the top of, as the updraft tube.
I've run into a few difficulties living aboard an antique sailboat, but think this may solve at least a couple of them.
I've got 2 small propane tanks stacked on top of one another, with a heavy truck rim on the bottom & a spark arrestor on the top.
The bottom tank is meant to dispose of non biodegrade household waste.
The top tank will have an oil burner like this one and the draft tube from the oil burner will go into the bottom tank.
Since a properly functioning oil burner reaches such high temperatures, it should be capable of eliminating pollutants released by burning plastic to it's most basic element... carbon.
This is the same idea used by "environmentally friendly" municipal incinerators in the U.S.
Aside from no longer having to pack all of my garbage to a dumpster (which isn't very near), I can use the heat produced to flash distill water.
I'll add a square tank made from plumbing parts at the top of the upper tank, with two T fittings.
One of those fittings leading to a valve to let non potable water in & the other going to a copper condenser, situated inside of a bucket of cold water.
In the center of the square tank for flash distillation, will go another coil of copper tubing to be used to heat water.
I live in Florida, where a hot shower is hardly missed, but I'd like to have the option to do so.
Great Post Kaiser Sose. Have been to Florida a few times and surprisingly had frost on the car in the mornings while I was there. Of course it was Tee shirts by 10 am but when it gets hot it means business 🤣 Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
Free I love that word. Good job buddy. Looking forward to seeing the next video keep up the good work. Paddy from Belfast Ireland.
once again great job.
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi gerry .. could i stick 8 mil coper coil insde my stove pipe riser to heat water for a jacuzzi ?
Hi Gerry, your older design had the oil drip tube inside a second pipe. The newer one looks like a single line. What was the reason for the change?
Did u coat the inside of that drum with fire brick or a fire resistant film ?
Brilliant video Gerry!! ☺️
Thanks Cloe. Appreciate the comment Cheers Gerry 👍
Love watching your stove builds. Just got one up and running myself and still tweaking. Mine is a forced air unit as it wasn't practical to do an updraft setup like you tend to use. My issue is I'm getting soot buildup on my glass doors within a few hours of running (faster if I crank it up). I typically run it at a fast drip (any faster of a drip and it would be a steady thin stream). I'm using forced air with the air pipe coming down into the center of the bowl. Air slots in the tube were cut on angles. I use a cut rotor to cover the bowl. The bowl and rotor tend to glow and the fire isn't lazy but still getting soot build up on the inside of the stove walls and glass. Any thoughts on which direction I need to go to help correct this issue or is it just something I'll have to live with? Thanks!
would you please show us how to make one of these in a .50 Caliber Ammo Can? Could it even be made that small? Awesome burner you made, I love it!!
Clever good job make use of variety materials that are scrap brilliant cheers.
Have you tried it with used motor oil before?
Hi FERRONIA Metalkunst. It does work just as well with motor oil. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
Ma con 1 litro di olio in quante ore si consuma ?
Fantastic idea great job.
Hi Brian. Thanks for taking the time to comment Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Another great video gerry.
Thanks Squarea Cheers Gerry 👍
Great video. I want to make one of those burners now.
All'uscita del camino si sente puzza di olio bruciato?
Another great video Gerry!
Cheers!
Doc
Thanks Doc. Cold weather over there and a bit freaky seeing snow in Texas Appreciate teh comment my friend Cheers Gerry 👍👍
@@GerrysDiy -28 and -30 F here in Northeast Nebraska the last two nights. No wind. I went out this morning at -15 to get firewood up to the house, (give the natural gas a break). Take care and nice to see you!
Jerry is their any way we can speak? I have a question about my burner I cant seem to get sorted out.
Vc usa somente oleo ou tem o ventilador tambem ?
very clever idea, would you be able to make an oil burner to replace a propane gas burner for a ceramic kiln? I would love to run my kiln like this.
Do you sell those stoves ,I'd love one for a new patio I'm doing... I'm in Celbridge...lol... I love all the things you do, I wish I had a welder!!!
Love ur channels
How big is the bottom inlet hole and the flue pipe exhaust hole?
Hi Blake. The flue is 6 inch diameter and 14 feet long. The flue opening in the stove is also 6 inches Here's the stove build th-cam.com/video/6cHR8FJ5ViY/w-d-xo.html Cheers Gerry 👍
Is burning waste veg and motor oil legal where you are? I'm pretty sure its illegal in the UK.
Guess why its free, because they otherwise had to pay for removing the oil. I love the concept, and i store used vegetable oil & engine oil myself, but i dont really plan to burn it, its more of a emergency backup thing, for fuel/heat also if you store it you dont have to pay to remove it haha.
I would bet its illegal all over Europe.
It’s funny how all the developed countries say, ‘you citizens are too big for your britches, too hard to control’-so they make everything illegal that would help lift their poorer classes up and make the other classes even more prosperous.
On the other hand, the undeveloped countries don’t make such things illegal. So in some regards their leaders love their own countries more than the developed countries’ leaders.
Could you do a similar video using the "conventional" barrel stove kit? I'd be interested to see how you'd set up the underneath air draw type vs your side draw type and which works best
Now I can manage that. Thanks!
Great video. Is there any chance the flame travels up the pipe to the oil feed tank.
Hi Peter. I know it looks like it would but air is actually being pulled through the pipe into the stove as the flames require oxygen to burn which cools the pipe. On top of that the oil itself cools the pipe as it travels down the pipe to be burned. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
is it waste vegetable oil?
You must gobble the world of quality street over Christmas Gerry lol
Hi Eugene. These sweet tins are quite hard to get. Most Christmas sweets are in plastic containers and they dont make very good waste oil burners. REally appreciate the support and looking forward to flying paragliders and paramotors with you and Agnes in the Spring Cheers Gerry 👍👍
Hi, what is the best design for the burner? I can see that you did a few different ones!
Hi. This design works great and at the moment is my preferred option but made from steel works really well and is not too big. The flue length and diameter are important to making this work without a fan. Mys setup is 14 feet flue lengtha ans 6 inhes in diameter. Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
@@GerrysDiy It helps a lot, thanks.
Great video Gerry, thanks for filming it. Would it make sense to instead of dripping, try atomizing fuel like car injectors do, in order to even further increase efficiency and prevent soot buildup in the chimney?
Im sorry. But what is the red liquid that he used ? I could not hear it clearly
do you need the brake rotor? and if not why put it on.?? I would love to see it without it. I'm thinking the negative air pressure is the main cause of the 'fan' sound and major flame increase when the door is shut... the flame has to draw more air in from the bottom... as a suction which super charges the flame. I want to make that on a mico scale... hmmm...
Man u wanna make your room warm or all the earth? If u don't put any iron or metal around or on the flame, it just go up and went out with all energy and heat so u will not get most of heat, that is why there is a metal around all burner, I think it's basics everyone should learnt from school physic lesson.
The top plate holds the heat lower in thr stove and reflects the heat down to the oil to help it vaporize and burn more consistently.
Hi Gerry,
Great idea. It looked like you used the cookie tin and dog food can to prove that the concept worked and switched to thicker metals so the burner would hold up better over time. No smoke would indicate that you have complete combustion. Does that sound right? Thanks for the video!
-mike
Hi Mike. That's correct. The Sweet tin burner is just to prove that the burner design is sound but due to the output would not last long. The thicker welded version is the same design but will last a year or more and is also easy to make but needs welding. It does burn clean but with a couple more mods can be made more efficient. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
Hmm, I wonder if that could be adapted to have an integrated 1 gallon tank at the bottom, Like a huge camping stove burner? Im sure there are others like me that have old wood burning furnaces that would like to burn waste vegetable oil. I have tried mixing it with wood pellets and with saw dust but when it gets hot the pellets/saw dust starts to "sweat" oil tha dribbles down to the ash pan.
I've been experimenting with a pan with a grate for bottom that sits above a pan that sits above another pan that catches ash and oil where the oil that "sweats" down is burned off . It works but needs refining. Its probably easier to a get burner of the camping stove type working.
Hi enjoy the videos a lot would this work converting an old multi fuel stove ? Sorry do the fumes smell much as I have neighbours? Regards Wayne .
Great videos gerry ! I have an old oil control valve from an old oil furnace that has float valves sort of like a carburetor, they contol gravity flow of the furnace oil automatically in the burn chamber, perhaps a video of one of these control valves running waste oil ? Would be interesting if they run a stove efficiently. Or if it would be safe (if filtered) to run these float valves on waste oil ? -thanks
Gerry make a donut out of a carbon felt welding blanket and don’t have drip feed soak a 1 or 2 ltr cooking oil it could burn longer and just top up the wick when opening the door easier
What is the purpose of the brake disc on the top?
Hi Dave. It's just a chunk of metal that gets red hot and helps convert the veggie oil into a combustable gas. Its a strategic placement though as the heat wants to rise with the flames but are restricted by the brake disk which in turn gets red hot and makes the burn even more agressive. Thanks for commenting Hope this helps Cheers Gerry 👍
Hey Jerry thank you for the Video. I have a question, what is the purpose of the “Top Hat”?
It concentrates the flame and heat by deflecting the original flame downwards a bit. Remember he said it was “to deflect the flame a little bit?” That was why.
Also, another commented about using a disk rotor (from a car) for that purpose
Nice one are you from Ireland?
Is it legal to burn waste oil now in the uk? I think you need a permit do you not which costs over a grand or something ridiculous??..
Gerrys Irish.
Wont the flame go up the oil feed pipe?
The oil will only burn once it's vaporized. The oil in the pipe is still in liquid state so there's no threat of retrograde fire. The open fitting outside the drum that the oil runs through also allows air to be sucked in with the oil preventing vacuum which would be needed for the fire to burn retrograde.
I know that this video is 3+ years old, but if you see this. Those used oil containers look like 2 liters. How long would each container last for when using it as fuel. I’ve just subscribed to your channel, and I live in New Orleans, Louisiana USA and it’s very rare that I would need it, but I believe in being prepared at my home for everything. A few years ago southern Texas was hit by the 100 year ice storm that took a few peoples lives, and I won’t allow that to happen to my family. I work outside up in North Dakota so I have clothes that’ll keep me warm at -40° Fahrenheit but my family doesn’t have that kind of cold weather gear. I’ve been looking for a good way to heat up a room in the house that I can close off by hanging quilts at the doorway and windows too keep warm trapped in it we always have a 5 gallon container of Peanut Oil that’s used to fry turkeys and chickens, and I’m having trouble finding anyone saying how long the oil would last as a fuel
I've seen you have burners with holes from the middle and some with holes from the outside. Is one option better then the other? Have you tried one with holes from both the inside and the outside???
I have made a burner from a stainless steel beer keg, with holes on the inside, wondering if I drill a few extra holes on the outside will make it better or worse, cheers for the inspiration
Beast man 😘
An easier version can be made with "Closed Savarin Ring Mould" or upside down dog food plate (stainlesssteel)
very cool.
Does that smell like french fries , burning that vegtable oil? Thanks for sharing👍
Hi Rod. There is no smell in the shed at all because even with the door of the stove open all the smoke and air for combustion gets drawn into the stove. Outside I dont have any problems with down drafts so it all goes up. When I am on the roof next I'll check but it has not been a problem so far 😜 Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry. 👍
Where would you get an old stove?..is it a Parkway type?
Hi Gerry. I've watched your heating vids with great interest and want to put something together myself to heat my workshop. So I had a thought. Would it be possible to convert an old gas cooker to burn wood and waste oil in the oven? Idea for a video perhaps?
Gas cooktops/ovens aren't really built of robust enough materials to last more than a few uses, unless you have one from the 1950s.
They're nothing but bent sheet steel, held together with sheet metal screws.
The force exerted from heat warping the sheet steel will sheer the screws in half.
The difference between the heat produced by a vaporous gas burner and an oil burner is immense.
The way to tell the energy density of a petroleum product is to look at how many hydrogen and carbon atoms need to be strung together to create a molecule of that substance. The more hydrocarbons, the more energy.
I have a suspicion that the top of the oven would get hot enough to melt.
It would make for a cool video though
@@kaisersose5549 Thanks for that! It's probably why no one has done it yet. Ah well, it was just a thought.
Still, if Gerry DOES make a video.........
Hi Peter. Probably not because you need control over the air intake ( no leaks) and the oven would be too thin to last long. But like the biscuit tin it might last long enough to experiment with it. Thanks for commenting Cheers Gerry 👍
@@GerrysDiy I did wonder if it might be too fragile. It would have been really convenient if it was viable. Ah well...
Thanks Gerry.
I come for the accent and stay for the projects.
Hi Faithful Tribe. As you may have guessed I am from Dublin Ireland and I'm happy you can at least understand me 🤣 . Great to have you here. Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍👍👍
I always heard that ware there's smoke there's fire..... Turns out in Ireland..... Ware there's no smoke... There still could be fire..... Crafty.....
I made the stove based on your videos, no smoke when runing. but after several hours outside you can smell nasty fumes :(
Well build a duct that collects the chimney exhaust and sends it thru a collection of sprinklers water walls to scrub it cleans, then pour the water down the drain and let the city deal with cleaning it, since your already paying them to.
Or
What I intend on doing, once I figure it all out, it's mixed the two fuel sources like use wood but supplement it with occasional oil to heat things up a little bit here and there.
Or do what your car does and route your primary exhaust back around to mix with clean air and get a second burning before being exhausted at the main exhaust.
Or
Deny everything, and blame it on the neighbors, and Hufflepuff a lot so people think you're serious and about to go do something.
We want to see DIY projects that do not requre an array of tools like you have there.
great if you want tye room to smell like burnt oil
Hi X D there is no smell in the shed as even with the door open all the air for combustion is drawn into the stove. No fumes at all. Cheers Gerry
An addition to my previous comment, making it out of tin cans or aluminium is a bad idea, its a fire hasard because it has a low melting point,as Gerry said at the end of the video that is correct, use Steel instead, if you dont you should not attempt making these.
Another good video. However, although burning waste oil in sweet tins is an economic way of providing heat. One huge drawback is the increased risk of diabetes.
Hi Bob. I have to stop eating sweets to make these videos. It's hard enough to get the tins as well as most of them are plastic now. Thanks for commenting Much appreciated Cheers Gerry 👍
It’s not free if you have to buy the oil
hi gerry. ....do you have an email address? imagine running a cable over a bunch of houses in order to use a flight sim together!! do you remember who I am?
Hi Emmet. I was delighted to read your comment. My email address is in the about page here's a link
th-cam.com/users/GerrysDiyabout Cheers Gerry
@@GerrysDiy is it just me but I can't see a email address on that about page! lol.
@@GerrysDiy il mail ya tomorrow. ...good to see ya
@@thekoshplays2207 You need to press that one button