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RaD Projects
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Hello and welcome! I use this channel to post videos of my current projects and interests.
I have been doing metal fabrication and machining for the better part of the past 20 years. On previous projects I would typically document with photos but I hope these videos bring some life to the construction process.
The content of my videos is to highlight the key parts of the design and build. I intend to keep the videos focused so I can keep viewers engaged, hence my use of time lapse throughout most posts.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have, if there is something I didn't thoroughly cover, please let me know and I will gladly make a follow up to that topic.
You can contact me with the following email.
rob at dolinski.ca
I have been doing metal fabrication and machining for the better part of the past 20 years. On previous projects I would typically document with photos but I hope these videos bring some life to the construction process.
The content of my videos is to highlight the key parts of the design and build. I intend to keep the videos focused so I can keep viewers engaged, hence my use of time lapse throughout most posts.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have, if there is something I didn't thoroughly cover, please let me know and I will gladly make a follow up to that topic.
You can contact me with the following email.
rob at dolinski.ca
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, ID. Augu2024
Our tour through the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho.
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DIY zero-turn mower dethatcher blades.
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Fabricating a set of dethatcher blades for a 56” Kubota zero-turn mower.
Quick Project Update
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Just taking a minute to provide an update on the waste oil burning water heater build.
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater version 2. Build part-two!
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Waste oil burning water heater fabrication part 2.
Building the second version Waste Oil Burning Water Heater.
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Finally starting the build for me second waste oil burning water heater.
Snowcat Maintenance!
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Taking care of some long awaited maintenance items on the mini snowcat. Oil change. Installing a new winch. Belly pan repair.
Machining Hinge Finials for an Antique Safe.
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Machining Hinge Finials for an Antique Safe.
DIY inline water heater for stock tank hot tub.
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Building a 2kw inline water heater for my 300Gal stock tank soaking tub.
DIY Stock Tank Hot Tub build in 27 minutes!
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Taking a 300 Gallon Stock and building it into an insulated hot tub!
Intro to 2024 Projects
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This is a quick introduction to the new channel name and overview of upcoming profit 2024.
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH Finale.
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This is my last video for the first design of my Waste Oil Burning Water Heater. Finally putting the heater to work and enjoying the fruits of my labour. Version 2 will be coming soon! Be sure to not miss it! It’s going to be hot!
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH pt5
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The final part of the waste oil burning water heater build series.
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH Pt4
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Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH Pt4
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH build pt3
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Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH build pt3
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH Build Pt2
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Waste Oil Burning Water Heater - WOBWH Build Pt2
Waste Oil Burning Water Heater-WOBWH pt1
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Waste Oil Burning Water Heater-WOBWH pt1
Propagating poplars from cuttings UPDATE
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Propagating poplars from cuttings UPDATE
Tell us about your heating unit please.
This video should explain that part of the build. ruclips.net/video/4L223veC2bk/видео.htmlsi=hSIvDzPvY3ni2ZWt
Hey...Great Design. How much would it cost for you to build me one of these?
Good question. Off the top of my head, without pricing out everything in detail I’d say somewhere in the $500 range. It’s the little things such as the oil pump and control that quickly add up. If you were to go with a drip feed, maybe a bit less. Other expensive part is shipping, the heavy & bulky unit will be expensive to ship.
@@rad1876 Thanks for your fast response. I'm thinking about hooking something like this to my Central Outdoor Boiler wood burning stove to reduce the amount of wood i burn every year. I live in northern Minnesota and go through 8 to 12 cords per year. I thought I could supplement that by burning waste oil from farm equipment. Do you think its possible with this unit?
The idea to supplement your wood usage is sound but as usual execution is everything. I would say this design is light duty, not meant for many hundred hours of continuous use. Operation is still somewhat crude and requires supervision, with enhancements it could be more autonomous. Aside from a bit of tweaking it could work great at using your used oil and you can get some extra BTUs from it.
@@rad1876 Thanks for your input. Im thinking of installing the waste oil burner ahead of my wood boiler on the cold water return line. This would dump the preheated water into my hot water storage tank on the wood boiler which is regulated to 180 degrees. I would then use the controls on the wood boiler stove to circulate the hot water through my infloor heat.Any thoughts on this? Thanks.
Great video mate, did you look into having a double or triple pass design? Or making the exhaust come out of the bottom, to keep the heat in, as the exhaust would need to cool down first to get out of the heater
I didn’t change this design radically from my first attempt so I could reuse several components. The air inlet is at the bottom on both versions so that prevents me from exhausting downward. The combustion gasses do make their way through a lengthy route before making their way up the chimney.
Great project! Wouldn't a blower help with the smoke? If you want the little amount of electricity used, probably even a danfoss nozzle with or without a blower should work with a bigger oil pump
@@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 I did end up adding a blower later on. It works great after that addition
What about vinyl thick tablecloth material wrapped around the cover and stapled underneath?
Yes, I have been thinking of some kind of vinyl but securing it is a challenge. Staples wouldn’t get a good bite into the foam. The wet environment is a challenge to work with. I’ve been having a hard time getting the two layers of 2” foam to permanently bond. Best I get was 6 months using 3M 78 contact adhesive.
Thanks so much. Wow that's maybe more work than I want to do. Maybe if I did rectangles instead of curves....
Round was a bit challenging, square should be easy to tackle. Next time I would consider a thin layer of foam insulation, then some Roxul to increase the insulation R-value.
Love it How much cost?
$100 for the crate. Probably another $150-200 for the other materials so $300ish.
im not criticising your work i love your setup i just want to share my burner with you so that you dont have cleaning issues im sure with your metering setup and a bit more airtight pressured setup meaning your burn bowl should become a sealed rocket shaped chamber that seals against the waterheater and by pressured setup i dont mean like compressor style No compressor needed olny 2fans should do the trick if you going for more power more cfm can add more fuel "oil" only enough cfm to keep the cobustion in the camber and flowing through the top more cfm and fuel will use different back pressures you just need to get the happy medium for your heater size but pressure is the key to clean burning and enough back pressure to keep the heat retained in the heater thus improves efficiency in the heater and giving you the clean burn that you want
my chimney looks like a proper running diesel
no bad flakey soot flying everywhere and blocking the chimney, only smooth exhaust like powder like out of a cars exhaust pipe i promise you wont get a better burn. i can send you a drawing of my setup just pvt mail me and ill gladly give it
and my setup is a closed setup with 2 welding machine fans all flames are contained in the first combustion camber sealed of against the water heater then in the heater goes the homemade catalytic converter causing just the right amount of back pressure finally getting to the 3rd combustion chamber super heating the smaler mesh making cleaner burning the mesh trick only works with a closed setup because a open setup cannot create the pressure needed to increase the temp thus creating the soot buildup regardless of little smoke that you are getting it just means the smoke is getting stucks to the edges of the cold places like the inside of the heater caused by the water cooling that part andin the chimney specially when it has bends alot of cleaning every day cleaning. i get close to 2000f i clean only the 1st burn chamer once a week to prevent oil overflow hence the charcoal like carbon bricket forming on the botom of the chamber i haven't cleaned the heater and chimney for an entire year
your heater is faster than mine because your chimney is running through the geyser mine has a has a smaller setup thats feeding my std geyser because i didn't have the materials to fabricate one like yours making the chimney go through the whole of the geyser is the best way but hey we must make do with what we have but like i said i have a hell of a burner you should try hanging a rolled up stainless steel diamond wire mesh in the chimney that goes in the water heater part make sure to roll it up so that there is some gaps dont make it to dens or it will choke up or to little then it will just enough so that the gasses and flames gas pass through easy that will catch most of the soot and the mesh will get so hot it burns the soot away there is a smaller mesh on top of that big one with a 3rd cobustion chamber going over the smaller mesh sealing the big mesh and small mesh almost still leaving some gap for the exhaust to exit its kind of catalytic converter same principle just cheaper if you want to use a normal catalytic converter like for car it cant work soot blocks it quick so i came up with this stainless steel setup
the only thing im struggling with is the metering of the oil constant steady supply i dont have a metering pump plus there is a trick with the chimney pipe it doesnt need to be long
I seem to prefer the long pipe. I tried switching back to the short one and I appreciate how the exhaust is higher up rather than at head level.
@@rad1876 yes i also put a longer pipe to blow the little noxfumes over the house so that we dont breathe them in but mine can run without a pipe with no smoke to check the exhaust smoke like i said i have a metering issue causing mine to over fuel causing excessive unwanted smoke that causes the soot and under fueling issues there but as soon as i have the gravity feed supply is the right amount and stability is runs like a jet .there is a trick in the chimney pipe without it mine starts smoking not a lot but enough to make soot to build up but as soon as i put that setup back runs perfect im still upgrading some things, but boil my house geyser 100L 45min to an hour convection style depends on outide temp if its cold then takes a bit longer to give you an idea with electricity takes 3 hours to get the geyser to 50dgre Cel with my setup 45 to 1hour with 1.5 - 2L oil boil it up tp 70dgre cel at the bottom like 90 at the top i get crazy results plus mine is still in upgrading process to get it to optimal performance ill share my design if you are interested i would like to see how yours works i have been at this waiste oil burning for 3years and a year ago i finally found a good clean burn now ill be looking at gasification kind of pyrolysis of the oil to get same performance with even less soot and charcoal like carbon buildup in the burn chamber hopefully
i get minimum soot buildup and my setup is much smaller
Smoke was due to being fuel rich. Adding a blower did the trick.
But I don't understand how you get getting rid of heat?
Generators have a built in fan that draws cool air in from one end, and exhausts it out the other to cool the engine. I am using the engine fan, just extending the path that cool air takes coming in and extending the path the hot air takes to leave.
How old does the tree have to be before you can take a cutting off to root? How many gallons of water per week do you recommend for newly planted hybrid poplars?
Around 2 years old and they start to make nice offshoot branches. You want a single “whip” with no additional branches so it’s usually new growth from the previous year. Watering really depends on soil type. Some years if the ground is saturated watering isn’t necessary. If the surrounding soil is dry, I have set up drip irrigation to put 1 gallon every other day. In general the poplar trees can tolerate a large swing from saturated to completely dry.
Thank you so much! That is so helpful 🌳🌳🌳🌳
There are so many different stem rooting hormones. What kind should I get? Is there a difference? I live in Alaska, zone 2 and 3 if that makes a difference?
I have used Wilson Roots and Stim-Root #2 with great results. Both have 0.4% IBA which is the active ingredient.
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If you push them in like that .do you lose root hormone on the way. i have been using round bar 3/8 dia creating hole so root compound stays on better. great video thanks.
Thanks for the comment! I’d say the loss is negligible with no perceived detrimental effects. I have used both powder and gel rooting hormone. To get good adhesion I wet the cutting end for the powder, for the gel I dry the cutting end. By doing this I probably get 500% more hormone than required so I can stand to lose some. I don’t think your method is wrong, if it works keep it up!
Oh the cringe factor of putting an endmill into a drill chuck.
100% laziness 😂, good thing you didn’t notice that is running wasaaay to slow.
Can you build me a small Remote control Harley Rake Please? Ill wait
I built a 60” Harley rake for my tractor 3pt about 8 years ago. Since then the frame has been repurposed into a lawn roller/aerator.
Great video! Thank you. Just the info I needed.
Glad it was helpful!
Gathering ideas for my waste oil burning project! Digging the content. Thanks!
Awesome, glad I can help!
Coolness, good 👍
Good job
What should be distance between the stem cutting when grown on naked soil
thanks for planting trees
I like seeing I am not the only one able (and evidently obligated :D) to admit my own short comings in obtaining success every first try. It raises the question really, of those ...seeming... capable; how much video was cut off..? ...Btw, personal discovery; 4 cheap crate style, fixed direction wheels on a wooden plate makes a great hand manual horizontal rotor welding table for pipes and cylinder objects. So will also a "Lazy Susan" dining turn table thing for verticals. Ought to give you some nice, fully continous mig seams for these kind of creations.
Thanks! It certainly is! I hadn’t thought much about the flow direction but seems like I have been going that direction all along.
Its coming along nicely man 👍. Glad you found some compression fittings that'll work. Id recommend when you hook up your inlet and oulet pipes have them in counter flow. So the inlet is in the cooler flue gasses and the outlet is in the hotter part near the burn chamber. It helps to add system efficiency.
Just a wonderful job very well explained. I will build one just like it for next winter. Thanks so much.
Thank you for checking out the video and for your comment!
Yeah bending stainless tube is a nightmare. I found out that if you put a clamp on the tube directly in front of the benders shoe to keep the tube from getting pulled into the bender it can make a usuable bend. It will still probably wrinkle the tube but not kink it. I know next time i have to make up a heat exchanger im skipping stainless and just use copper. Its a lot more forgiving.
I went with stainless in case the burner gets out of hand, or insufficient water flow. Based on previous experience it would melt copper, the stainless should be fine even if I run it dry. I have had more, but still limited experience bending copper tube. Still not much easier, but definitely softer. I tried freezing water in it to prevent kinking but also heard filling with sand is an option. The SS304 compression fittings I got should be perfect, if not better for tighter/sharper bends that I think will work in my favour.
Nice
Looks awesome 👌
Thanks!
Be sure to put a pressure relief valve in the event of steam production, i almost blew myself up building mine .
I’m not planning on using this in a closed system, but if I were I definitely would!
Great job. Can't wait for your next video.
Thank you.
Very cool design. Where did you get the wart chiller from?
The Shop is called Grain to Glass.
How did you program the unit? I would like to build a control panel like you did.
The controller is a FX1N 20mr (bought off Amazon) and uses GXworks2. Gx works 2 is the Mitsubishi PLC programming app. You can make a Functional Block Diagram or regular ladder logic.
Bad idea, smoking bad.
Can you root poplar cuttings in august/september?
Yes you could, although depending on your location they may not get well established before freeze up. I believe the freeze/that cycle they get when rooting them in Jan/feb may help kick start growth. You could wait a bit longer and plant them in October, they should start up the following spring.
@@rad1876 or can you take them in august and store them until next spring?
I think you could although I haven’t done it myself. You would need to keep them frozen so they don’t break dormancy and wrapped so they don’t loose moisture through freezer burn.
Nice work !
Get her ready!!!!!
Just add snow!
This is great. I’m planning stages of building a cat, but bigger. But contemplating hydrostatic vs gear drive…
Having done the hydro I would seriously consider a gear drive using a small truck drivetrain with a 4cyl engine.
@@rad1876 my experience and confidence is in gear drive and I appreciate your insight and it basically supports the way I was leaning. I owned a big ten passenger hydrostatic cat years ago and ultimately got rid of it due to intimidation of cost maintenance. Nice build you did though, very impressive.
Hi Shane, Thanks for another informative and well-paced video. As a fellow pyromaniac, I have followed your combustion posts for some time and have been particularly interested in your effort to miniaturise your waste oil burners. My passion is for ultralight backpacking winter tent heating. I have had a long-awaited and significant breakthrough with a very simple miniature waste oil heater that quickly gets up to about 1,000C. It can be batch-fed or drip-fed and I will be interested in your electronic oil feeding, although I do like the robustness of fuel feeding that does not depend upon an electrical input. My heater may interest you. Here is a link to one of many little videos of it: ruclips.net/video/vd66Eb9U6vw/видео.html Also, this is the link to my website post about its development: timtinker.com/micro-oil-heater-for-a-small-tent/. I hope they may inspire you. keep up your good work, Tim
Thanks to you for posting! Now why didn't you have the filter housing vert so it could come off without dumping? Love your work RaD!
Good question, Not enough vertical space between the inlet & outlet on the tub. Going vertical would have added more fittings and complexity and I wanted to keep the setup as compact as possible.
I wouldve just welded a small nut right in the middle for that pilot hole bro
Can you root poplar cuttings in august/september?
It should work, it takes 3-4 weeks for roots to begin to develop and the cutting to produce leaves. Depending on your geographic location that might be enough time to establish before winter although I’m not sure how well they may survive.
Wow
Love it!! That’s awesome!
It has definitely escalated from a hillbilly hot tub.
Can’t wait for more!!! Nice work on the water heater!!
Thanks 👍
So now its sucking in the air from the hole's in the car rim?,i live in a van in England and this looks just what I'm looking for.
Yes, the rim has a large central hole that the tank sits over. Plus, the way I mounted it there is plenty of air gaps to allow air to circulate under the tank. On a similar thought, In hindsight I would use a larger diameter pipe for the combustion chamber intake.
Thanks this is the simplest one I've seen that makes sense to me
If there was a hole in the steel table to suck the air into it?
No, I had to elevate with some 1/2” steel scraps. Ultimately I mounted it to a steel truck rim in the next video.
@@rad1876 looks cool
@@steveffuksake thanks, I appreciate that!