DIY Waste Oil Burner
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2015
- Really simple waste oil heater made from a 20g electric water heater tank.
Nothing special. Just a drip fed "smudge pot" style heater.
Leave questions and comments below and I'll try to answer them the best I can. Thanks! 
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This is the best set up I’ve seen for home brew oil burners. More details on how to build one myself would be great.
I’ll dig it out from under the porch and do a litte review of it. It’s super basic
Great little package, going to build this and install in my garage this winter. Tx for the simple video, and to the point.
No problem! I am going to build another soon and post a video series on the building of it. Make sure your subscribed!
Excellent brother. Make more vids and keep on going. Man anything to knock the chill off is great. My shop isn't heated, sure needs to be, can't cut the cold. Hard to work when the bones are rattling. Dude, your design works great. Thank you for sharing.
I work in maintenance multi craft automation/mechanic love your heater. To help improve the improve the burn go to local electrical place an get you a dimmer switch to control the voltage to your hair drier you can then fine tune it with air fuel mixer. Possible add some strips around it so the act as vanes an air flow over them will help heat more efficient. Great heater!!
Like the way you experiment to get the optimum performance out of what you built. Good job. Anything that works can always be improved. 👍👉🇺🇸👈
This is pretty cool. Good design work
Very cool. Thanks for the video
Awesome. Nice work! 😁
Great bit of kit 👌🤙
Good setup. A fan blowing on your heater would help spread the warmth and make it more efficient as well.
You have made this nice and neat and practical.
Well done!
Hey thanks man! Some of your videos helped me in building it.
Hopefully my video will help others as yours helped me
Nice stove!
that's a hell of a nice little heater good sir, I would also love to see a build video if you find the time.
Tim R Thank you sir! I know it’s been 3 years but I did gather the stuff up to do another. I just have been busy building hot rods. Really should be posting videos of that too... but trying to record everything is more of a chore than you’d think!
Very useful unit!
This is awesome!!!!
Thank you!
Like the set up would like to build one my self.
This is Ari, awesome video
Hey thanks for stopping in Ari! Have your friends subscribe
I was thinking about building one this is a good one
This is a nice productive comments section! Enthusiasts asking questions, etc. I've got a waste oil burner vid, you'd swear I was being trolled by the EPA recently...
Right! I love the interaction. And you viewers have some neat ideas as well I might implement in the next burner video
Your views have skyrocketed!! Awesome!
Cool heater. I made mine out of an old water heater too. It caused some challenges as the inside was lined with ceramic. That meant I had to work at grinding it off in places we wanted to well. After I go it all built, I got a hold of an LP tank. Keeping it for the next one.
I'm a plumber and have yet to run into one that was ceramic lined. I imagine that does pose a few challenges
Hot water heaters claim to be "glass lined" which implies to me that there was a coating to be removed to facilitate welding.
thanks for the video.
Very nice! I've used waste oil burners and was a fire fighter. Hope you didn't burn down your shed. I'd give at least a 1ft. air space and metal heat shield on the wall.
Nope! Still working like a champ. I try to run it cooler than most would because of the small space its in.
looks like that is what the chair was for, lol
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Always got to be one person to make it all seem so incredibly unsafe for people like me trying to find an option to stay warm, that way I can stay way to paranoid and keep freezing instead of attempting to make it
@@oLMNOo I never had a issue. But clearance to combustibles is something that should be watched. This thing will get HOT and it will light nearby wood on fire. Just be mindful of placement
thanks for share.
Thanks. It would be nice to see details of what is going on inside.
That's a really nice little heater! You should do a build video on that. I'll bet that would get a ton of hits.
That's the plan! I'm going to put together another heater and record the build and make a video for it. Surprised how popular this one has turned out to be.... so more is in the works
hey thanks man! Just got my hands on a couple electric water heaters and plan on doing exactly that! Its been in the negatives outside for the last couple weeks though. Just waiting for a break in the weather to start recording the build!
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Thats awesome
have you put a heat shield to protect your wall behind the stove? i used rectangular furnace duct, flattened it. cut up pipe in 1" pieces. drilled holes in metal to line up with wall studs. screwed flat metal to wall using pipe as spacers between stud and metal plate. fire inspector happy with that in my city.
I have not yet but I really need to.
I Just run it fairly cool and its a non issue. Building a garage soon and going to do a bigger heater, I will use what I learned here to improve the heater and insall.
Nice video I want to build one.
Do it! If anything is a fun project. It certainly will keep you warm
Cool build 😎 I would get a better flue pipe to heat
Cool setup! I wonder if you could use a firematic valve on the supply side as a safety? Not too close though, I think they trip @ 165 F or so? Cool vid, thanks, Jim
Most certainly could get clever with snap disc safeties and solenoids. A fuel safety cutoff would be fairly simple to add. Seemed pretty robust, reliable, and predictable when I used it. The dirty oil burned definitely required maintenance to keep oil feed lines and such clean and flowing
Nice, would like to see a vid on how you built this.
It's pretty simple. Took a electric water heater and stripped it. I cut a door in the front and welded hinges to it. Cut a hole in the top and welded in a chunk of 4" exhaust pipe for the exhaust.
I place a stainless steel bowl inside and drip oil into it. It's super simple and works well.
My brother may build a larger one. If so I will try to make a video of us putting it together
ok, thanks
Nice Build. A cheap performance up grade is to weld 1/8, 3mm fins on the out side of the burner unit increasing the surface area like a 2 stroke motor cycle head.
Certainly could do that. When you set a fan behind the heater it heated the space really well.
I’ve since moved and installed a natural gas heater in my garage and this poor thing rots under the deck. But never know when it might come in handy with the direction the world has gone in!
Thanks for watching!
Effing genius
How long do you think the tank will last..
Great video do you get any smell from the waste oil well it's burning and what did you use to cut the hole for the door .Did the Brent hold up to the heat what did you use the first time just sinless wall pipe . Let me know thanks very much Dale
If you run it lean and hot, the burn is surprisingly clean without much of any smell. All I used was a grinder with a cut off wheel. Welded some hinges on that I bought from the local tractor supply.
The Bvent lasted a little while. Can’t remember for sure. But you should treat the venting on this like a wood burner. It’s hot. The way I measured the temperatures at the time were wildly inaccurate.
Have list of parts would like to try and build one
cool, thx
I hope this is in a shed or an outbuilding🙏 you could......
Add a normally closed spring loaded solenoid in the fuel line, connected in series with a firomatic safety or other type of high limit device.....
And a sheet metal heat shield 1 inch off the ENTIRE wall behind the tank.......
And keep THREE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS HANDY!
Being a plumber you should be able to scrounge up an old Miller warm air furnace from a mobile home?
And maybe convert that burner to a BABINGTON BURNER?
you need to weld a doubble burn plate 4 to 6 ins.below the stack it will give you more heat and keep the heat from melting your stack
Great idea. I only have a tig welder though so welding a plate up in the heater where I have no hatch would be tricky.
Joel Clark can you please enlighten me more on this double burn plate you speak of? Thanks
I think you also can call it a baffle. It's just a surface between the chimney and the fire to divert the flames. Google stove baffle and you will see the images.
Nice and Functional for sure. I got a curious question? Does it SMELL ??? I really HATE the Oil burning Smells :((( THANK YOU !!!
Jod Bronson really there isn't much of any smell at all if you run the burn hot enough.
Would it help if you put a 5 or 6 inch baffle a few inches below the exhaust pipe? It might do two things for you. 1 cool the exhaust pipe, 2 cause the top of the burn chamber to put off more heat. Just a thought. Of course you would need to play with how high the baffle is to keep a good air flow.
Baffles would definitely make the heater hotter and potentially cool the flue has a bit. But the thing already ran so hot that if it got any hotter it would have lit that shed wall on fire lol.
Is there visible smoke out the exhaust? I can't have that in my neighborhood.
kiknthehead You can run it lean and mean where there is basically no smoke or smell coming out the stack... but it will be HOT HOT. Use the correct exhaust piping!
great video, thank you. have you put wood in there to burn? I was curious about the exhaust fumes also, how is the smoke and smell?
I have not put wood in there but it should work fairly well.
Smoke and smell is minimal. I run it a bit cooler so it is slightly dirtier. If I run it hot the exhaust is totally clear with nearly NO smell. Never had a complaint
nsboost awesome, my plan was to make it on a smaller scale with a 30 pound lp tank. should be the same kinda just smaller. im just not sure about the exhaust. i guess i would probably still have to use 4 inch double wall? i wanted to use something flexible but im not sure if it will hold up to the heat
nsboost awesome, my plan was to make it on a smaller scale with a 30 pound lp tank. should be the same kinda just smaller. im just not sure about the exhaust. i guess i would probably still have to use 4 inch double wall? i wanted to use something flexible but im not sure if it will hold up to the heat
Wood, oil, and pellet stoves get HOT HOT. If you are going to run your heater indoors, you must use piping rated for the temps as well as insure you have proper clearances around the pipe. Wood burning stoves get brutally hot... keep that in mind. Your best bet is to stop at your local fireplace dealer and see what they are using. Its $$$$ unfortunately.
You don't want to light your house/garage on fire! The way I have this heater setup in this video is a bit dangerous because of how close it is to the shed framing. It should have more clearance and heat shields keeping the wood cool.
Planning on doing a video series on building one of these heaters... so stay tuned!
nsboost thanks brah! haha seriously thanks though.
Fill your burn pot with old bolts and nuts, big stuff. This will help your oil to pop.
Awesome tip.. ill give it a try. Though clean up will be a good bit harder with nuts and bolts in the bowl
I had a diesel stove similar on my boat
I like it. So the oil just drips into a stainless pan like a dog food bowl? Is there a wick or something like that in the bowl too? How does it sustain a flame? Thanks for an interesting video!
Yes you just drip it into the stainless bowl. You start it with a paper towel with some oil on it. Once it's burning, it will get hot enough to burn the oil. After it has been burning for a minute you add air (as I did with a hair drier) and it starts to burn a lot hotter.
It gets to the point where the stainless bowl is so hot, the oil ignites instantly as it comes out of the 1/4" feed line. You can adjust the burn with how much air and fuel you feed it.
how do you keep the nozzle from getting clogged from the heat???? built a unit like this 30 years ago worked good till got hot then turned the oil in the feed line into carbon and thus clogged the line used a 1/4 id copper tube dont know what went wrong
buck smith I did have to clean it regularly. How often depended on how clean/dirty the oil was.
Use a Venturi type nozzle with compressed air would be far more efficient and clean.
I may do something like that with this one in the future just for fun. I moved and have a garage with natural gas now. No bothering with waste oil and the mess anymore
Nice work, any plans available
I just kind of winged it. 20g electric water heater. Cut a door in it. Cut a 4" hole in the top and welded in a short chunk of 4" exhaust pipe. The oil feed is elementary. Just a hose from a bucket to a ball valve.. Then from the valve I ran a 1/4" piece of soft copper into the side and into the stainless bowl in the bottom. I might make a video showing it in a bit more detail
Do you need that fan(blow dryer), also how many BTU's do you think you get outta your setup there? How big is your workshop(shed) and how warm or what temperature can you get it up to? Thanks
hello greenhouse heater, you legend bro, now how do i make my own oil since i dont have waste oil lol
I sew its been 4 years since you asked the question and there hasn't been a reply, if there is a fish and chip/ burger place somewhere near you, you can ask them for the waste oil they they don't use. That is what I've done in the past.
@@10secTonner cool thanks for the advice! i probably wont bother but good to know!
@@veganchiefwarrior6444 I drag race… and have 4 other vehicles. So I have a lot of oil when I do maintenance.
If you find someone who does any sort of automotive racing or has a fleet of vehicles for business, you will likey find unlimited amounts of oil: I just got rid of 20gallons
Just needs sheet steel backing to insulate the wood framing from any radiating heat
It was definitely too close to the wood to turn up to full bore
All the waste oil heaters I have ever seen on the innertoobz always burn yellow. Can they be air injected to burn blue like the gasses ?
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how many quarts an hour does it burn on low (and is it still smoke free?)
Burning oil won't be smoke free that's why he's got the chimney oil needs ventelated
Finnish fire insperctor nightmare :D
Ya the fire marshal would not be impressed...
is there any bad smell from it while it burn is it safe use in house
With a proper draft started, the exhaust only goes one place... up and out.
Even the exhaust at the room of the shed is nearly smell and smoke free when I'm running her hot. Neighbors don't even notice
nice burner man, just curious about oil consumption as where i live i pay for it and cant find it in large quant. can you estimate in litres x hour cose i m european.thanks in advance
Well I just pour whatever I have into the 3G fuel container above. It is thirsty. If you turn one of these up, I bet you could burn a liter per hour easily.
Be careful what you use for exhaust pipe. The exhaust gets to some very high temps and you will melt the wrong materials
Hi how you turn it off?
Sorry for the late reply. You shut the ball valve feeding the fire fuel
You should try to run it as a rocket stove design so as to get one hundred percent burn efficient.
I actually have built a couple rocket stoves. They are neat. I originally wanted to use compressed air to draw oil from tank and make a nozzle/injector to atomize and feed the oil into the heater.
I opted NOT to simple because I don't want to listen to a air compressor cycling all the time... as well as I would need to filter my used oil well before running It through a system with small orfices... something I'm just too lazy and cheap to do for a shed heater
all you need is a little fan with a electric motor which is quiet. you don't need 125 lbs of compressed air. Go look at the heater they built on mother earth waste oil heater the oil doesn't have to be strained unless there is chunks in it if you have it clean out of the crank case you will have no problems...
It actually burns pretty clean when I run it hot. The next build I plan on doing a rocket type build and using compressed air and a nozzle to supply the oil and air. Should make for a good clean burning heater.
I gotta move to the country
HelloNice work.Have you been able to run this heater on waste vegetable oil yet?Thanks
Ive been messing around with these contraptions for a year or 2. This will burn vege oil no worries, its a bit harder to light but these things will burn anything remotely flammable with the right air - fuel ratio when hot.
Hi Paul, Thanks for the response. Yeah its all about it being nice and hot before the it catches. I have an oil foundry furnace that is finally working nicely. Thanks to Oil burner the master who walked me through it for the last 2 years. But without a fan I wondered how hard it was. You did a great job.John
can u burn synthetic motor oil? or what all kinds of oil can u use
I take anyone's old used motor oil, brake fluid, tranny fluid, etc etc. It burns it all
Can your heater work without a combustion fan once started.
Michelle Tessin It’ll burn very dirty. You’ll have lots of black smoke, it’ll soot up the flue pipe and wind cap, and will not burn nearly as hot. It’s kind of the nature of the beast with gravity fed oil.
How you add combustion air is up to you. You don’t have to use a hair drier. Get creative.
Good channel voice. Lots of us leave when the voice sucks
Got lucky.. I’m not much of a talker and the IPhone got the audio well 😂. Surprised this video got so many views!
How can you be sure the flame won't ignite the oil in the drip pipe and burn all the way up to the holding tank?
If you were running gasoline, alcohol, or something with a low flash point, that could be a possibility. Oil isn't very volatile and isn't a concern.
@@nsboost .Combustion requires oxygen.... There's no available oxygen in the oil feed pipe. Even if the oil feed pipe valve got plugged, the worst that would happen, is that the oil in the drip line would "boil off". But, as it's in a sealed line, the worst it could do would be to bubble back up into the elevated fuel oil container. No matter how hot the oil got in the fuel line... No oxygen... no ignition..
I bet the neighbors love the smell
+Pete s very little if any smell once its heated up and burning hot. No real visible smoke from the exhaust either. Haven't had any comments and my house is tight next to the local baseball fields
Dopo quante ore il tubo si è intasato completamente?
How does the air make it burn hotter and how close is the air to the oil
It’s a air/fuel mixture thing. Rich is a lazy, dirty, cooler flame (rich = lots of fuel not much air).. Get the air fuel mixture right and it burns clean and hot. Run it too lean and it will start starving of fuel and try to go out.
Add a blower to your heater and more than double your heat out put
how could the burn flame be made to burn blue so the soot would burn?
Add propane
Could I use an old beer keg or would that melt eventually?
A beer Keg is usually aluminum.. It'd cost a lot to have the necessary pieces fitted to the keg.. 'cause welding aluminum is a bitch! Something as thin as a beer keg would need a pro to weld on the fittings, it's not a job for amateurs with a $100.00 Ebay welding rig!
@@charles09361 you could get it done with a $700 AHP or primeweld tig though.
Welding on aluminum kegs isn’t too bad. I’m just not sure how aluminum would like being heat cycled like this
Hi bud...i didnt catch the type of exhaust pipe you're using
Pellet stove pipe.
Mine smokes all around door and anywhere that isnt completely sealed. I even put a bunch of draft hole on bottem.
Maybe you show the outside? I mean, that thing could literally be pouring black smoke and how would.anyone know?
It did till you got it hot and turned the air on. After that it didn’t. It was pretty darn clean. Like almost unbelievable.
I have a big garage with forced air heat now so I don’t use the thing anymore. My garage is 70* year round without me messing with anything. But this heater did work well.
others use a bit of kerosene oil to get it started and one even uses a propane torch to start it.. You don't have a blower?
Yeah I stated in the video some use kerosene. I’ve never used kerosene for anything so i don’t have it laying around.
No blower. I’ve set a box fan behind it to blow the heat around the shed.
I have a big garage now and just finished running a gas line and hanging a forced air heater. Haven’t played with oil in a few years.
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Roughly how much oil does this burn an hour?
+BachikoiBabi just depends on your air and fuel settings. You can easily burn a liter an hour
The video that led me to yours claimed he heated his garage all winter for "free". It really made me wonder how much "free" oil he had laying around to do so.
+BachikoiBabi used oil is extremely easy to come by. But what he likely meant is he heated the garage when he was working in it all winter. He didn't heat it non stop all winter
How much oil per hour?
Probably a liter when it’s on full bore
probably 10 gallons ( 2 buckets)
Is where you are at 4:58
If your so worried about melting your stove pipe, why can't you mount something inside above the flame to absorb the direct heat, like a disc brake. Having a baffle or 2 inside that will absorb the heat so it's not so hot. Kind of like a wood stove.
This thing has been sitting under my deck for years now.
But to get into this.. I could get this thing so hot the sides would glow bright orange. Baffles would increase the mass and potentially lower the exhaust temps to a degree, but I believe I would still have been able to run it hot enough to melt things. If I could move enough air with a blower over the heater with a baffling setup, I might be able to keep the egt's down
That's why wood fire places have that bad boy triple wall (and expensive) pipe. Exhaust temps are extremely high. Not like a 500° natural gas heater flue
Why would you want to clean the burn pot? However, when it cools down pour you some K2 in the pot and stir it, take the nuts and bolts out. Now wipe the pot out.
It gets so full of crud (as fast) that it will no longer efficiently burn the oil... Don't take long to scrape the carbon out and throw it back in.
Instayd of a bol try bracke disk flat douwn
check out mother earth waste oil heater for some ideas to make it operate more efficient..
That's a great channel. I have been a subscriber for years now
How big is your shed? Bet that will run you out of there?
I can’t remember the dimensions. I had it packed with tools and welders on top of that. It kept it nice when it was -10f
Seeing it that close to the wall and stuff makes me nervous
I definitely had to control how hot I ran it. If I cranked it up and left it unattended it would have burned the shed down.
I don’t live there anymore. Have a garage that I ran a gas line and installed a natural gas unit heater in
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Noisy.
That squeaking hinge... If only you had access to some kind of lubricant. Sorry, I can't think of any that you would have lying around.
u know u have no sound at all comming out i know my speakers here work
Sound is there. Your the first and only complaint of no sound...
Jamie Round sound works, issues on your end. check if you have sounds muted
Air isn't combustible, fuel is, but I know what you mean
Combustion Air is exactly what I meant to say. You hear this use a lot in my profession in my part of the world www.usinspect.com/insights/blog/combustion-air-what-it-why-it-important
You will burn your place down if you are not careful, its far too close to the wood behind the stove !!
You’re not wrong. It was too close. But I was careful and never left unattended
Get some new pants.
Lol old ass video. But why would I wear my new pants when I’m in there cutting and grinding getting dirty? Lol Ain’t a fashion show.
buy a pair of jeans
I get my money’s worth 😂
very nice, liked the video, i started storing my waste oil after seeing alot of projects like this, free heating :)
do not use synthetic oil...
nice. thank you for the video.
thanks for share.