Updated Waste Oil Heater Drip Feed Ver.2.2 Detailed January 19, 2018

this is our waste old motor oil vegetable oil heater shot Peter try to go through some details how we built this and start with a drip feed it's a five gallon bucket when we connect it to 3/8 ball valve this is just a heat shield that we can slide up and down the pecks line we use pecks plastic lines and it goes down to a gate valve that we modified kind of groove in it to allow the drip to work better that goes to a 3/8 black iron fitting and then to a bushing to bring it up to 3/4 inside the tee we drilled a hole in the back of the tee and we actually tapped a barbed fitting into the 3/8 black iron pipe so we have a drip you can see it there just hanging them below the window through the tee that way we can see our stream of all going through the tee down from there and right into your burn chamber so we open our brain our door inside the burn Brenner door is our burner and several other components you can see the drip feed right here I'm going to remove this is a you can use a break this this is actually a harmonic balancer off of a diesel truck it's just a heavy piece of steel to buffer the the flame and this is our burner this is how easy it is to remove our burger okay this is our cap that we made for a burner so there's two pieces this is our burn chamber an old old pan if you will and the way we built this is a eighth of an inch piece of steel plate and then we wrapped around the steel plate 1/16 of an inch steel plate three inches tall the diameter of this really doesn't matter you build it to fit your tank the diameter of this one is 13 inches the inside diameter pipe is a four inch pipe welded to the plate it's all sealed so the oil can't leak out now this is this pipe is four and a half inches tall the way this works is the air has to come through this door up through the center hole which is this hole and then enters into this pot which is larger diameter and taller so it comes up hits the top of this pipe goes back down the sides and then comes out of each one of these 90-degree fittings which creates a vortex of air entering the burning chamber or the burn pot another thing that just does by by designing it to where the air has to come up to a certain height and then go back down to here if this part were to ever fill up with all for whatever reason it would smother the fire out due to the air not being able to pass into the whole chamber the oil would plug the holes the fire would go out it's kind of a safety mechanism I haven't tested that I mean in theory it should work now cleaning is simple you just take this burner remove the pot it's very I'm going to take this pot and we're gonna dump it into the trash and you can see we have a nice clean pot to light our new fire you place the air hair hat on top of the burner I've welded up some some nuts into the bottom plate of this to Center their hat so we don't have to worry about see I've left a lip and that lip is gonna set down inside this plate so it will also sooner itself now this is a 40 gallon water heater tank and I just had this plate - 14 inch plate and it sets down inside the tank and I put some angle iron below it to stabilize it so we're gonna put our burner in all it takes now we want to drip tube to drip between there our air so we kind of line that up we're gonna put our flame top of the hair hat and that's all it is to it we're ready to light this thing now to light the heater first thing we're gonna do is turn on the ball valve to allow the oil to flow on by down the pecks line down the Picts line to this gate valve all right right now we don't have anything going any all dripping into the tank it's empty so to start it start this thing up I actually have some diesel fuel with a little bit of gasoline mixed in with it be very careful very little gasoline goes a long way just to make the diesel ignite a little better so we're going to pour about a half of a cup that liquid propellant into the burn chamber and put our flammables away and we're going to hit it with hit it with a torch and light it up no next hit be very careful with using gasoline you don't have to use gasoline it just helps us make it start up a little faster so here we go we're gonna like this thing my burn plate is like I said it's okay it takes that metal quite a while to get hot enough to vaporize you're coming into the bone chamber so I usually put my torch in for tip that order you can see we got a pretty good fire going now we don't even have them oil introduced yet so let's introduce some oil into the burn chamber so I'm going to turn my gate valve get a good flow going you can see that oil going right through there that's about the size of a that stream is about the size of a regular pencil lid at that point you can see it down here you see the stream coming out of that half-inch pipe so now that we've established plane we're gonna close our door a burner door not are here door your door has to stay open and listen to the sound you hear to hear change yeah so we're we're now burning on waste order and let's take some temperatures to see how this thing comes up and heat these are three inch pipes welded straight through the tank using those as heat exchangers we'll add a couple more ran out of pipe they hopefully will do a good job getting the heat through the tank you know capturing the heat in the tank and I got a blower set behind that to blow through those three pipes so let's see what we're doing it still hasn't got the vaporizing the oil good yet so the door is at 120 degrees the tank in between the heat exchangers 126 130 and it's going up from there and we'll we'll just let it go for a little while now got my oil also going a little too strong so let's back that down that's a little better a little better all oil flow there back down to about the size of a pencil lid now I was telling you about the heat sleeve earlier the reason I did that is when Full Tilt this thing I'll get up to between 800 and 1,000 degrees in tank temperature so the Picts line was getting a little too hot just temporarily I made took an old hot-water heater chimney exhaust tubing and placed over that pax near the tank so it so it don't don't get too hot we're using a six inch chimney this is actually a this is actually a fire extinguisher that I cut to weld into the tank attach the chimney a six-inch chimney pipe I've got about 15 feet chimney so it's got a pretty good the flues creates pretty good suction let's see actually have this bolt hole so where the water used to go into the water here and I'm gonna see if we can look down and see into the flame you can see what the flame looks like possibly maybe yeah can't see it real well sorry about that but the pipes kind of in the way but you can see that there's a good flame happening inside the tank and let's check some temperatures it's been a couple of minutes now the door is up to 130 tank where the heat exchangers are mm really much glare on the lens there 122 123 123 we're still getting hotter inside 28 so we're still still looking at a stream about the size of a pencil ahead and you can hear you can hear the tank the roar of the tank I haven't got my hand on the door yet so we're gonna use a screw grab here yeah I can tell you that you're gonna hear it slow down close this beat that back it's going in so we're gonna set back and see what happens here [Music] yeah so far best we can tell it's going to burn about if we keep the tank around 600 to 700 degrees it'll burn about a liter of oil per hour we are burning currently burning diesel burnt diesel motor oil maybe a little transmission fluid mixed in with it it seems to do pretty good leaves a little bit of smut Nash and burn the burn pot as you've seen and cleaned it earlier the valve there if anybody has any questions about how we modified that there's some videos on YouTube that explain it and if you want me to I probably had to take it apart in a different video and show how that was doing I haven't welded under the I just noticed I haven't welded underneath the pipes you can see the flame right there under that top heat exchanger tube we just finished those heat exchangers a few minutes ago let's check our temperatures now we're up to two hundred and eighty one degrees where heat exchangers are 233 like I said once it once it takes off and really gets that plate hot on the bottom starts vaporizing at all you know get hot pretty quick just take some time to get to that point with that thick plate just give it a little more oil maybe we can help it get get there a little faster all right that's probably double the size of a pencil lid we'll get it powder ammo faster from the videos for video sake yeah we're getting there 347 350 353 you can see it's climbing let's see between our heat exchangers 26262 you're 62 top of the tank and we're still at 150 no chimney chimney temperatures are pretty good we only had it 170 right now let's see what the inside of the heat exchanger is not sure if this things are eating properly I would think it would be hotter than their 310 degrees surrounding the burn chamber 380 man 413 pause the video okay we've had time for the heater to come up to temperature it's probably been maybe 10 minutes I will recommend against water heaters for doing this they're simply too thin they're about 1/16 of an inch thick and as you can tell my door it's already warped about enough you see quite a bit of the fire shining through there earlier I think I had my temperature going on Celsius this reason my temperatures were lower than expected I do have my fan turned on apparently so it is blowing a lot lots and lots of heat through this heat exchanger so we're cooling down the tank somewhat with the with the squirrel cage fan back there we're still running at a pretty pretty thick stream a little bigger than the Pennsylvania and show some temperatures now the door the fire door is up to nine hundred and forty eight degrees burn chamber in between is so hot let's back up it's Bernie Williams the air between the heat exchangers this is eight hundred and fifty sixty degrees the top of the tank is five hundred degrees for seventy or fifty and the chimney is 430 their chimney height is 460 to 440 times you can see it's pretty hot and the heat exchanger tubes it's no life for me to tell you how they work but it's amazing that the amount of heat is coming through those tubes this shop is 40 by 60 shop and it's about 30 30 to 35 degrees outside currently and inside the shop shoot to be out of this truck inside the shop is 80 degrees 79 degrees so I really really should turn them will flow down a little bit cuz we're a little too hot it's back then oil z there got a pencil they had sass again should keep the shop just fine we need heat in here my son and I have built this together our first this is our generation 2 here it works really well June 1 heater know where all the trash over here but this was a generation 1 heater it's the brake rotor had a burn pot underneath the brake rotor and had some a fire extinguisher that have drilled holes in it went to a small propane tank and into another fact thing or 16 facts fingers refer to me adapter it worked pretty well but it was significantly too small to heat this large of a shop so this is our second generation it works awesome it's pretty easy to build however as I said I would not recommend using a water heater for your tank it is thin it gets hot quick but it's at the same time it's also it's also very flexible in the door like I said the door has already worked I'll have to make a door I'll reinforce this one to make a thicker door roll out of door that put it on thank you for watching the video and if you don't mind if you like the video if you enjoyed it if you want any tips or any questions about how we built it please like share and comment and I appreciate the time you took watching my video you

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Length: 21min 25sec (1285 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 19 2018