My waste oil Burner

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My waste oil Burner

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We'll the wheels of progress sometimes move rather slow here but I've finely completed my waste oil burner and tank storage. Hasn't been test fired yet as I'm looking after our two granddaughter and its not the thing that I want to be playing with while they're around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_COc7hFK8Q8
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Looks good Mike, pressurized tank? Nice filter setup.

One thing you might want to look for is some fine control valves. Oil burners go from intense to crazy with the slightest crack of a ball valve.
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Harry wrote:Looks good Mike, pressurized tank? Nice filter setup.

One thing you might want to look for is some fine control valves. Oil burners go from intense to crazy with the slightest crack of a ball valve.
Yes Harry a pressurised tank I'm using a delavan nozzle and apparently they need about 80 psi to vaporise the oil so I though pressuring the tank would be the easiest way to do it. what type of fine control valves do you mean Harry

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And that filter system will be changed, when I ordered it I though the oil would flow through one filter then the other, it flows through both at the same time, not what I wanted. I will end up with a system were I'll have oil going through one filter then the other to hopefully remove any crap that gets through the first

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Re: My wasre oil Burner

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Mike click on the quote button after reading what I typed below on the first sentence



Mike sorry for jacking your video but if you will click quote you will be able to see what part of the youtube url that you need to get the video to show up in your post like I did. Nice looking burner that a Nudge style nozzle setup hiding in the pipe.

I gotta get back on tweaking mine around the last little bit, get it so its heating cast iron up to abour 2500 degrees so it will pour nice and hot, really sucks when the stuff turns to porridge in the pot and won't hardly dump out. Who knows maybe play with it today, too cold to work on the outside of the house.

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I bought a couple of these valves recently Mike. Have yet to use them but they seem to provide very fine adjustment.

Not sure what you will be able to do about adjustment with the standard pressurized nozzle setup as they need a certain amount of pressure to atomize properly. You might be able to get all of the adjustment available using air pressure. From what I understand that type of nozzle is either full on or off but then that is when using them in the beckett style home heating units where the oil pressure is not easily adjustable like your air setup will be. With the siphon nozzle like I use you can feed any amount of oil and it is atomized by the air stream so it always atomizes regardless of flow volume.

Also since I now realize what kind of setup this is, how much pressure are those oil filters/seals good for?
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Re: My wasre oil Burner

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Thanks Dave I'll give that a try next time

Harry I'll see how I go with the system that I have, if I have any issues I'll post them and I'm sure there will be heaps of constructive help, with regards to the filter seals taking the pressure I hope to find out on Thursday :roll: , wife sure will be pissed if I spray oil everywhere :shock:
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Re: My wasre oil Burner

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Mike I don't know what type nozzle you have but the regular fuel nozzles that I used to work with in small oil heaters will turn down but your going to need a constant supply of oil to them to make it work. normally the lowest we would turn them down was around 70 to 90 pounds but we were also putting a lot of air into the system with large blower cages on the motors.

Give it a try if possible video it so if you have problems we can see those also, lots easier to help if the problem can be seen, also the hard data, IE fuel type, fuel pressure, air pressure, or air source. all these are important to knowing what is happening.

Oh yea find a barrel to spray it into so the wife don't get PO'ed
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Re: My wasre oil Burner

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Welll I had a bit of a trial on my burner today and it was not much of a success, I'm having some problems with getting enough pressure to atomise the oil, all I can get in the storage tank is about 70 psi, I'm on night shift to night so its going to have to wait till I come off shift

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Re: My wasre oil Burner

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Maybe I should use one of these instead of using the compressor http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/WEBSTER-M34D ... 1c1d9fa45a

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