Workbench Creations

I have built a burner like this to fire my glass furnace. I am using waste motor oil because I can not get enough of the vegetable oil here. The burner is finished but still tweaking the oil filtering system that feeds the filtered oil to the "day tank" My set up is based on a Kagi waste oil syphon nozzle and retention head and a heater block I made myself. If anyone is interested in this I would recommend they go to:

altfuelfurnace@yahoogroups.com before they start, there is a ton of info to be gained there.

pipewelder

I hear waste motor oil is a bit easier to run because its thinner, however you have to worry about the hazards of the heavy metals that you are burning. As used vegetable oil is plentiful where I live I will stick with it.

Glad to hear your system is finished, as it sounds very similar to mine. The link you give does provide some very good information as I have been there and gained a lot of good ides, as you will see I have a few of my own as well.

What I have never seen there is a good summary of what is required for a working burner. I often see requests there for how to get started get replied that they should read the msgs. It takes quite a lot of digging and reading to get a feel for how to get started.

Thanks for commenting, perhaps you will register with CR4 and post some pictures and details about your burner, so we can have a nice summary here of two working systems.

Are you using it as a hot air furnace or to heat water or make steam? What are its dimensions? Please. more close-up photos and different angles.

I am using it to heat water in a boiler which goes to my radiators. Their are two more entries to this post, that I will be posting soon. They will each include more pictures and details. If you would like a particular angle or photo of a detail, let me know and I will do my best to include it in one of the posts.

have you ever seen the plastic disc candles that float on top of a layer of vegatable oil itself floating on a volume of water in various types of decorative vessels ? remember them ? Well to make one of those discs out of beer can aluminum is pretty easy and multiple wicks can be inserted into each disc. to make an aluminum disc you need two blocks of hardwood at least 1" .5 in thickness and about three inches long make that 3.5 4 something like . and a releif cut is carved into both blocks to make the reverse displacement discs . if youve sized your design right you should get two discs out of each beer can .In any case as ive indicated multiple wicks can be placed on each disc and if one has a large enough vessel , an iron cauldron would be best i reckon ?, something like a huge continuosly burning aquatic birthday cake is the result . and a bucks worth of vegatable oil so utilized will burn for a day or more with no attention paid to the apparatus of course one must ventilate it and a small chimney perhaps also constructed of beer cans and stainless steel tape might suffice ?interestingly a by product of this method of burning veg oil is a resultant soot black or carbon black that would be very useful for the making of solar paint for solar hot water heaters ?