Also, you probably have heard of him but if you haven't Colin Furze is an amazing Inventor/RUclipsr that you may be able to learn some from a filming aspect. Like I said though I think you do an amazing job and can't wait for more projects from you!
60 some odd years ago, my father modified several pot bellied stoves, for friends. He would take a disk from a 6" or 8" harrow and weld 2 short legs and one long leg onto the disk, so that it would set in the firebox of the stove, at an angle of about 45°. He would solder a petcock on the bottom of a one gallon metal cooking oil can. Then he would fill the can with burnt motor oil, hang it on the wall or from a wire, hung from the ceiling, and run about 10ft. of copper tubing to the inside of the stove. The end of the tube was just inside the stove and oil dripping from the tube, would land on the high side of the disk. All you had to do was build a coal fire under the disk, wait for the disk to get hot, and crack open the petcock. oil would slowly drip onto the disk and burn of, as it ran down. As this heated the disk, even more, the oil would almost flash off, when it hie the disk. I can remember seeing those old stoves, on a cold night, glow red, they were so hot.
I guess an old hubcap might do for a disc .... what we used to call "baby moons" in my area cause harrow disc's are rare in my area. You got my thinker going Bob.
We did this with a barrel stove, quick and dirty style without the angled plate, for our 1500 square foot (with 14 foot walls) shop. If you got a good fire going early, you'd be working in there and stripping layers in about two hours. Entirely uninsulated, freezing temps.
Nice job! Don’t mind the critics....bunch of “experts” that have never made a video available for the world to view. You did a great job on the heater and the video.
Have to tell ya something else about my friend Don (past last XMAS) he had Parkinson’s. He would call it his “wild hand”. Sometimes I’d hold his arm behind him so he could throw down a better bead...later I myself became pretty versed in welding and I’d weld critical areas for him. Watching your videos took me back to the good times I’d have when I’d tell my wife “I’m going over to Don Calans for a while” Thank You Again, -Jim
Great video, I'm a 30+ year welder/ fabricator/machinest. Going to build a waste oil burner to heat my home shop. Very good info you shared. Great work. Thank you
I'm 56 now, but when l was 9 my dad had a friend with a car shop. He built a huge one and it kept the whole shop warm. It always amazed me. Kool vid. 👍
Even though most of the video was lost I really like how you explained everything in very simple terms, very informative. You have the best video on this that I’ve seen to date and I’ve watched a lot. So thank you for taking the time to do this.Can’t wait to see what else you have in mind.
Not sure if anyone's already commented, Roger Sanders, (or Saunders?) has a design for a waste oil burner that has a passive unpowered air-blast. Very simple and able to be well regulated. What you've done there is good. I believe the "burn cup" will need a clean out from time to time, there tends to be some sort of build up from the impurities in the oil.
I enjoy watching videos of people building their own home improvement devices. If you are having fun doing it and can make some money at the same time, kudos to you and keep yourself happy! I will be tuning in from time to time. Thank you for posting!
@@MegaKaze11 The amount of time put into these projects means that the amount of videos per yr are lower than you would like but I appreciate the detail and info provided in these videos.
Great work! You have inspired me to build one to dispose of my oil. Btw, you can weld galvanized steel, just don't breath the fumes and keep your feet clear.
This is fantastic! A good source of 120vac to 24vac transformers are old forced air central gas furnaces. It’s used to power the control board and almost all safeties/limits. Also, the draft inducer for the burners is a high output (usually around 3,000rpm) 120vac fan, rated for very high heat, and has an outlet of usually 3”. For extra canisters you can use old refrigerant tanks (same exact design as a helium tank), they’re usually evacuated and a valve will be punched out to prevent being pressurized again. Just fill with water before cutting to purge of any refrigerant that might not have been properly evacuated, some refrigerants are mildly combustible. Call a local HVAC supply company and see if they have any old furnaces and refrigerant tanks lying around, most HVAC service companies will drop them off there for recycling.
Do a revisit after a month or two to see how it had performed, and if any mods had to be done. Keep a close eye on your pop rivets, that high heat may break down the aluminum of the robot then your tank will fall off causing a big fire. Think about using some hex head sheet metal screws or tap the holes for machine screws. Like s 1/4- 20 hex head.
It's press fit the rivets are extra if i heard right in the video not to mention him hammering it into the top prior to putting the rivets in. Agree with the revisit
You could just put a few bricks or cinder block under the can so even if the rivets melted it wouldn't fall all the way off.... or move at all if you spaced it right.
The burner bowl / canister needs to have access in able to clean the burnt by product.. He's has lost the ability to remove the burner to clean it.Perhaps if he uses a shop vac and gains access via the top cap that he uses to light it might suffice.
I'm working on my first gasifier/ water heater. Trying to get 2 in 1 and also being able to connect a barrel to burn plastic. Love watching these videos. Keep rocking out.
Here in Brazil, we are experiencing increasingly harsh winters, including snowfall in some places (nothing resembling the merciless Texas winter) and this small, efficient project is what I was looking for. Thanks for the post and humility when passing on knowledge.
I learned many years ago from and old mech. To take used oil and put it into the oil tank used for running the oil furnace for the home. Great way to get ride of used oil. Never had a problem. Filter takes care of most the dirt. 250 gal of diesel dilutes a gal of used oil easily.
awsome build. We have lots of waste oil lying around, and I live in Canada So -40 degree days are the norm for February. This will heat our shop well, thankyou keep up the good work.
@@randomn6473 just dont overwork yourself. the content your putting out takes a lot of time to create, there is no need to make more then a few videos a month, dont want to see you burnt out ^^
Your videos are amazing... Well made, informative, educative and entertaining. No time wasted in boring unnecessary stuff either, no need to watch it in x2. Impressive! 👌👍
Another trick is continue to use the wood stove.Take a stainless brake line,run it to the top of the stove to where it will drip oil on the wood fire.At the other end have a tank of oil on the wall dripping into a small funnel into the brake line.That way you can visually control the flow.Once the oil is dripping into the fire,you will have a fire until you shut the oil off. And you can still use it as a wood stove when you run out of oil.
What I do with my big wood stove. Also pipe the stove inlet so it is feeding off outside air instead of wasting energy warming the air inside the shop then using that to feed the fire and sending it up the stove pipe.
Your design logic is great, and helped me make a couple decisions about how to proceed with the little oil burner I built. Mine is probably half the size of yours but I built it using the the same reasoning that you did (except I have a small hinged door) Nice stove and video, this is the first channel I've ever subscribed to.
Played with waste oil burners for a number of years, and they really can produce a ton of heat simply. That said...they can also turn on you in a heart beat. Just a suggestion based on experience...do not leave it running un attended, and keep an eye on it while it's running. As the fuel warms up, the flow rate increases and you can get a runaway which can get out of hand quicker than you will believe...until it happens.
Great build. One small observation that someone else may have mentioned… The aluminum rivets anneal and significantly soften at about 600-700°. This could cause them to loose their hold and cause the container to drop out of the frame. Even some simple spot welds would greatly increase safety. Still a great project.
I have seen where someone made a third version to the waste oil burner. Their design did not require a fan or electricity. They used hole cut in the bottom, and built the "burning cup" so that as the air for combustion enters the burning chamber, it came in around the center of the burn cup in a spiral, causing the oil and air to mix quite efficiently. This is the build I'm going to be trying first.
I don't know how to share u-tub shows to u-tub again, but the general idea is to have a hole in the bottom which let's the air into the burn chamber. Ut the direction of the air flow is Directed in a spiral around the top of the oil that is burning. Thus as we all know heat rises, which inturn draws its own air into the burn chamber. All that is required is to direct the air into the burn in a right manner, and it all becomes authentic. The only thing left to do is to regulate the oil. Which is covered as well in these videos as well.
@@charlesjohnson5579 What is the title of the video? I can search for it myself. Also, to share, you can click "share" then "copy to clipboard" then just right click (if you're on a computer) in a comment and "paste" . Or if you're on a phone, just hold your finger down where you would type a comment and options should pop up to either cut copy or paste. Either way, if you could at least kindly tell me the name or title or keywords of the video, then I could put it in a search and hopefully find it, thanks.
For noise reduction, consider running the blower outside and piping the air into the shop and heater. Obviously cover the blower outside to protect it from the weather.
Great video & build. I now want to build one myself. A few things.... 1. Put fan outside with large intake facing down. - Less noise inside. I did this decades ago for the air compressor. Works great. I also added a large cheap automotive air filter. This also lowered the noise, inside & out. Also cheaper than replacing specific air compressor filters each month. - Fresh air from outside. No longer sucking cold air into shop thru walls or cracks. This increases heating efficiency. 2. Put oil tube in center of air inlet tube. Inside fire box. - To keep oil cool. A safety thing.
So cool! Found your channel thanks to Chris Ramsay and am working through all your videos as a result - just really great! Going to send some of these to my brother who is a builder himself (mechanics mostly I think but these might give him some ideas none the less). :)
Tate I have watched your video about this heater, and your bug out vehicle and the wheelchair. Dude, you are awesome. Where do you come up with all your fab designs and first sketches? I know, aliens! Keep up all the badass work .Good luck. Ken Fowler Tenn. hillbilly
There's a small hole in your chimney. That setup you have built is excelent and well thought out. I had only heard of waste oil burners before but I had never really looked into how they worked. If it was mine I would be running a coil of copper pipe inside for hot water. I'm sure that, that is much more efficient than a chip heater like the ones that we had when I was a kid in the sixties. Well done all around and thanks for giving me some new ideas to play around with.
Yeah, music always needs to mixed a lot lower than what you originally think. Done right music adds a nice contrast, done improperly it just gets in the way.
I'd like the music to be quieter than the talking to be honest, that way if I'm watching a video at night I can set the volume to what is needed to understand what is said and leave it instead of talking then A BLAST OF MUSIC OMG WIFE IS PISSED! I don't like wearing headphones because I can't listen for the other things i need to listen for around the house...animals, kids...phone, whatever..
@@BlackTownie999 Yeah, when you mix the final mix you need to make sure that the master volume doesn't peak above the dialogue even when only music is playing or you'll have a ton of annoyed viewers. I think that sentence made sense. :)
Great Channel! But could you please make the music quieter and your voice louder? Its sometimes really hard to understand without turning the speakers to max.
I'm an HVAC mechanic and if want to get some great parts try to find an old furnace that's getting replaced. If you can find one that has an inducer fan assembly for the flue gas you can use that for your intake fan, it would be much quieter and it would already be 120V. You can also get the 120V to 24V transformer out of it and the blower motor assembly that makes good shop fans. Some also have relays and other electronic parts you can use.
Put a oil drip on woodstove then makes wood last 10 times longer and much hotter. Then wall board insulation. Heats my 24/32 barn awsome. No electric required. But good project
That is what I have been considering so I have multiple options for fuel,I assume if properly placed drip tube I could use wood,coal,a pot for oil only or as you said oil on wood I'm glad to see your comment.
Having some thermal mass around the heat source to radiate heat long after the fire is out, helps immensely. Thanks for posting this. So much waste oil.
Seal the holes in a small brake rotor and place it in the woodstove. Install oil dripper tube so it’s over the rotor. Burn wood in the stove as normal and whene the fire is going well, allow oil into the woodstove. The brake rotor keeps the the oil from wicking and Leaching through the ashes to the bottom of the firebox. Before the fire is out, turn the oil off because if it smolders out and the oil doesn’t stay lit, it can puff or “whuff” and blow the chimney off the stove while your not there to save the day.
Funny enough, I had a blow dryer in my early designs as well, but I was going to use it as is, so that you have somewhat of a speed control as well as a "pre heat" function. Not entirely sure why you went to the lengths of taking it apart. These burners work well indeed, it is a neat design but relies heavily on forced air, it makes it very efficient and clean burning, but you always need power. Good job on this project! I found that ceiling fans work very well as they are very quiet and plug and play.
Good job on your heater. That hair dry fan needs to be replaced. I was wandering if you could use a heater core fan out of a vehicle? Those seem to put out alot of air ,and they're quiet.
That's what I used on my gasifier and it's probably the best solution for this as well. Unfortunately I used the only one I had and I don't really have any vehicle junk yards close to where I live. That would make life so much easier though. XD Thank you for the comment!
@Randomonium I Love this simple design, I know it would complicate it, but some type of blower to move the heated air around the room might add to it's efficiency . On a safety note, if the rivets used to hold the bottom section are aluminum the could melt, I would replace them with steel screws or steel rivets.
Awesome build ! Small suggestion ... on the area (ring) that was glowing red, ( where the flame focuses ) on the outside you could tack weld some pieces of square or rectangular tubing going up and down to absorb heat and natural convection flow would push it through the room . I'm thinking 12 - 20 inches but whatever you can bring closest to the floor is best. Thanks for the well thought out video !
That works exactly like the commercially built paraffin heater in my model engineering club albeit not in terms of the specifics but the club one has a deep cup you light through a hole in the side and then blows heat up through internal pipes and a big slow moving fan blows heat around the club. Thanks for sharing. PS, I am a little jealous of how fast your channel blew up.... Well done!
You might try adding some insulation, you can get foam board pretty cheap, like even the thinnest stuff would make a huge difference. Just an idea, cool video nonetheless.
Yeah, not at all. XD I need to look into the insulation. I have to decide whether or not I'm going to upgrade my small space, or save up to build a real workshop someday though.
Such a shame you have to spend so much energy appeasing the safety nit-pickers! We could all do without the safety grannies! Nice build. I like how fast you talk. Right to the point. We can rewind if we need to hear it twice.
I just landed from your tracked vehicle video as everyone seems to, good work on what I've seen so far. I'm subscribing to see some more! Have a good one.
If you want to use gas bottle btw super easy trick, fill it with water before you do anything.. guarantees no gas is left in there. Done that a number of times building proper insulated rocket heaters.
A guy came into our welding shop to have his damaged motorcycle gas tank repaired. We had recommended that he have it steamed before brining it in, but he just washed it out a few times with water and asked if that would be good enough. The owner said it would be fine because he would be standing beside the welder performing the work. He seemed a little nervous about that.
Get this dude monetized so he can build a bigger workshop to build a locomotive sized boiler from spare Yugo parts and tin foil! Love the simplified solutions!
When you shut it down, and the fan is off, what keeps the latent heat from rising up the pipe and melting the plastic fan case, or do you keep it running ?
yep, definitely cut off oil then run fan for a while. once you know how long it takes to cool, when you shut off oil plug your fan into a timer and let it sort itself out
I'm excited to see what your next build is. I watched your first video on the All-terrain vehicle (which by the way was awesome and hope we get to see a v2 of it) and couldn't stop myself from binge watching the rest of them. Won't be to long before you start getting a really big follow.
It's a warm winter here too in Erie PA USA 20F has been our lowest temp, but had over 5 ft of snow so far. We have a woodstove in our 4 car shop. Can you post more video's of your Ripsaw tank, im in the middle of building it. Need more view point of the tank. Would love to see a driving/ offroading video see how it preforms. Thanks.
Yeah, It's weird! It's probably just saving up for 'the big one" haha. Dang. We've only gotten 5 inches! I can't imagine 5 feet!! It's so cool that you're building your own tank!! I hope you post a video of it when you're done. I hope to soon, but logistics are proving to be difficult. :( If you have any questions then I'll be more than happy to help if I can though. Thank you for the comment!
If I were you, I would turn the fuel off first and let everything burn off and cool down. that fan housing is only plastic and I can see the heat coming back up the pipe and melting it.
Great video. Concept, execution, and safety talk. One thing you missed though is if you keep doing what you are with kindling cutting, you will eventually injure your hand. Cut the first one, then pick up the smaller and use it to stabilize the larger and cut. Like how a football kicker uses that little stand to hold the ball for warm up. That way when you miss you hit wood, not flesh and bone. A little extra time and steps in your habits there can save lots of pain, expense, and compromised ability to work with your hands later in life.
A cool trick i found with my heater that i made was i put the burn cup on a pipe that was suspended to the floor and that gave me the opportunity to put a diesel glow plug in the cup so i didnt have to add a hole to start the flame.
i was hoping he would make the cover removable for this exact purpose i think it's probably just gonna fill up with crap and then you can't take it off
Think your design looks and works great!!!. Perhaps some tapped holes and bolts to secure rather than rivets? Maybe a quieter fan, recon that will get annoying while trying to work
Exactly wood works on radiating the heat should have had fire bricks and could have used dryer lint for a fire starter instead of kinlin also that wasn't a fair shake for the wood heater since he had a buffer between the thermostat
Sorry about the music, guys!! I'm still learning how to edit and I can see that I've made a small mistake in my audio levels... XD
A bit of advice regarding editing; do away with the music completely!
The content of your videos outweighs the need for any music at all.
What they all said... unless you happen to make your own music on a home-made instrument... tho even then, use caution.
Bro for someone who is relatively small in the RUclips world you are doing an amazing Job. Keep it up man.
Also, you probably have heard of him but if you haven't Colin Furze is an amazing Inventor/RUclipsr that you may be able to learn some from a filming aspect. Like I said though I think you do an amazing job and can't wait for more projects from you!
60 some odd years ago, my father modified several pot bellied stoves, for friends. He would take a disk from a 6" or 8" harrow and weld 2 short legs and one long leg onto the disk, so that it would set in the firebox of the stove, at an angle of about 45°. He would solder a petcock on the bottom of a one gallon metal cooking oil can. Then he would fill the can with burnt motor oil, hang it on the wall or from a wire, hung from the ceiling, and run about 10ft. of copper tubing to the inside of the stove. The end of the tube was just inside the stove and oil dripping from the tube, would land on the high side of the disk. All you had to do was build a coal fire under the disk, wait for the disk to get hot, and crack open the petcock. oil would slowly drip onto the disk and burn of, as it ran down. As this heated the disk, even more, the oil would almost flash off, when it hie the disk. I can remember seeing those old stoves, on a cold night, glow red, they were so hot.
Cheers Bob, i was just thinking how to make something for the inside of an existing firebox!
I guess an old hubcap might do for a disc .... what we used to call "baby moons" in my area cause harrow disc's are rare in my area. You got my thinker going Bob.
This is what I needed to read thanks.. from NZ
We did this with a barrel stove, quick and dirty style without the angled plate, for our 1500 square foot (with 14 foot walls) shop. If you got a good fire going early, you'd be working in there and stripping layers in about two hours.
Entirely uninsulated, freezing temps.
Nice job! Don’t mind the critics....bunch of “experts” that have never made a video available for the world to view. You did a great job on the heater and the video.
Have to tell ya something else about my friend Don (past last XMAS) he had Parkinson’s. He would call it his “wild hand”.
Sometimes I’d hold his arm behind him so he could throw down a better bead...later I myself became pretty versed in welding and I’d weld critical areas for him. Watching your videos took me back to the good times I’d have when I’d tell my wife “I’m going over to Don Calans for a while”
Thank You Again,
-Jim
James Shriver. This is the old school way to learn. Be proud, and thank you for commenting.
Sorry for your loss.
Tough to lose a good friend.
Great video, I'm a 30+ year welder/ fabricator/machinest. Going to build a waste oil burner to heat my home shop. Very good info you shared. Great work. Thank you
I love how you respect the viewers time. and also obviously the content, jokes included.
I'm 56 now, but when l was 9 my dad had a friend with a car shop. He built a huge one and it kept the whole shop warm. It always amazed me. Kool vid. 👍
Even though most of the video was lost I really like how you explained everything in very simple terms, very informative. You have the best video on this that I’ve seen to date and I’ve watched a lot. So thank you for taking the time to do this.Can’t wait to see what else you have in mind.
Nice video, nice burner, plumb it with water to heat your house
Not sure if anyone's already commented, Roger Sanders, (or Saunders?) has a design for a waste oil burner that has a passive unpowered air-blast. Very simple and able to be well regulated.
What you've done there is good. I believe the "burn cup" will need a clean out from time to time, there tends to be some sort of build up from the impurities in the oil.
I enjoy watching videos of people building their own home improvement devices. If you are having fun doing it and can make some money at the same time, kudos to you and keep yourself happy! I will be tuning in from time to time. Thank you for posting!
Keep at it - don't wear yourself out by trying to do too much to quick. Quality better than quantity.
Thomas Greenall 12-18 videos a year
@@MegaKaze11 The amount of time put into these projects means that the amount of videos per yr are lower than you would like but I appreciate the detail and info provided in these videos.
I dont think these are legal anymore in the uk. Excellent build and heat performance.
Nice job. I have a drip on my wood burner now but after watching this I gotta build me one
Knowledgeable, well presented and we share the same humor tap. Good, bad or indifferent on that last part, but I won't hold it against you.
Great work! You have inspired me to build one to dispose of my oil. Btw, you can weld galvanized steel, just don't breath the fumes and keep your feet clear.
You killed it. This is the only video I have watched all the way through on RUclips. Very informative.
This is fantastic!
A good source of 120vac to 24vac transformers are old forced air central gas furnaces. It’s used to power the control board and almost all safeties/limits. Also, the draft inducer for the burners is a high output (usually around 3,000rpm) 120vac fan, rated for very high heat, and has an outlet of usually 3”. For extra canisters you can use old refrigerant tanks (same exact design as a helium tank), they’re usually evacuated and a valve will be punched out to prevent being pressurized again. Just fill with water before cutting to purge of any refrigerant that might not have been properly evacuated, some refrigerants are mildly combustible. Call a local HVAC supply company and see if they have any old furnaces and refrigerant tanks lying around, most HVAC service companies will drop them off there for recycling.
Do a revisit after a month or two to see how it had performed, and if any mods had to be done.
Keep a close eye on your pop rivets, that high heat may break down the aluminum of the robot then your tank will fall off causing a big fire. Think about using some hex head sheet metal screws or tap the holes for machine screws.
Like s 1/4- 20 hex head.
Thats what I thought too, the rivets are too light with those temperatures.
i was thinking of a cooking surface, 300 is a wee bit hot for tea/coffee, chili or stew or whatever...
It's press fit the rivets are extra if i heard right in the video not to mention him hammering it into the top prior to putting the rivets in. Agree with the revisit
You could just put a few bricks or cinder block under the can so even if the rivets melted it wouldn't fall all the way off.... or move at all if you spaced it right.
The burner bowl / canister needs to have access in able to clean the burnt by product.. He's has lost the ability to remove the burner to clean it.Perhaps if he uses a shop vac and gains access via the top cap that he uses to light it might suffice.
The music is a little to loud on this video, otherwise, I enjoy the detailed information you have on your projects!
Music? Is THAT what it's supposed to be?
No need for music - it spoils an otherwise good vid
No need to worry, as by the time he is ready to do another video his shop will have burned to the ground. Wow is this unsafe. He'd never get a permit.
Keep after it. You're really making good stuff.
Thank you!
I'm working on my first gasifier/ water heater. Trying to get 2 in 1 and also being able to connect a barrel to burn plastic. Love watching these videos. Keep rocking out.
Here in Brazil, we are experiencing increasingly harsh winters, including snowfall in some places (nothing resembling the merciless Texas winter) and this small, efficient project is what I was looking for. Thanks for the post and humility when passing on knowledge.
Merciless Texas winters ? Have ppl in Brazil ever heard of Michigan ? ..... Nov, 6 2023 .... 0500 it was 17 degrees where I live ... that's 17 f
Insulation in your shed would be my first approach,still canny for love n peace Carl
I learned many years ago from and old mech. To take used oil and put it into the oil tank used for running the oil furnace for the home. Great way to get ride of used oil.
Never had a problem. Filter takes care of most the dirt. 250 gal of diesel dilutes a gal of used oil easily.
A 3 day retreat and gets right back in the action. That’s determination
awsome build. We have lots of waste oil lying around, and I live in Canada So -40 degree days are the norm for February. This will heat our shop well, thankyou keep up the good work.
this is one of the coolest channels i have seen around atm
That really means a lot. I'm trying to fill gaps that I see in content and I'm really trying to give this everything I have. Thank you very much.
I agree
@@randomn6473 just dont overwork yourself. the content your putting out takes a lot of time to create, there is no need to make more then a few videos a month, dont want to see you burnt out ^^
Your videos are amazing...
Well made, informative, educative and entertaining.
No time wasted in boring unnecessary stuff either, no need to watch it in x2.
Impressive! 👌👍
Another trick is continue to use the wood stove.Take a stainless brake line,run it to the top of the stove to where it will drip oil on the wood fire.At the other end have a tank of oil on the wall dripping into a small funnel into the brake line.That way you can visually control the flow.Once the oil is dripping into the fire,you will have a fire until you shut the oil off. And you can still use it as a wood stove when you run out of oil.
What I do with my big wood stove. Also pipe the stove inlet so it is feeding off outside air instead of wasting energy warming the air inside the shop then using that to feed the fire and sending it up the stove pipe.
Commenting for support. It’s a good video and really good. Thanks.
Checked out your other videos . I’m definitely subscribing.
This is one of the coolest things i've ever seen
Thank you!
You mean hottest 😉😎
I definitely enjoy watching you take this idea from paper to building becoming a functional heating source .
Your design logic is great, and helped me make a couple decisions about how to proceed with the little oil burner I built. Mine is probably half the size of yours but I built it using the the same reasoning that you did (except I have a small hinged door)
Nice stove and video, this is the first channel I've ever subscribed to.
Thank you very much! The kind words mean a lot! I'm actually really interested to see a functioning unit that is that small. Do you have a video?
I hope RUclips works out for you because i already really like your videos. Keep up the good work!
I dig it! I think I'll do same thing with my old balloon tank.
That is a great idea. I may just have to make one at some point, thanks for sharing. Great video as well no down time.
Played with waste oil burners for a number of years, and they really can produce a ton of heat simply. That said...they can also turn on you in a heart beat. Just a suggestion based on experience...do not leave it running un attended, and keep an eye on it while it's running. As the fuel warms up, the flow rate increases and you can get a runaway which can get out of hand quicker than you will believe...until it happens.
Ask my last pole barn
Great build. One small observation that someone else may have mentioned…
The aluminum rivets anneal and significantly soften at about 600-700°. This could cause them to loose their hold and cause the container to drop out of the frame. Even some simple spot welds would greatly increase safety.
Still a great project.
I have seen where someone made a third version to the waste oil burner. Their design did not require a fan or electricity. They used hole cut in the bottom, and built the "burning cup" so that as the air for combustion enters the burning chamber, it came in around the center of the burn cup in a spiral, causing the oil and air to mix quite efficiently. This is the build I'm going to be trying first.
Link?
Would you like to share the link or title with the rest of the class?
I don't know how to share u-tub shows to u-tub again, but the general idea is to have a hole in the bottom which let's the air into the burn chamber. Ut the direction of the air flow is Directed in a spiral around the top of the oil that is burning. Thus as we all know heat rises, which inturn draws its own air into the burn chamber. All that is required is to direct the air into the burn in a right manner, and it all becomes authentic. The only thing left to do is to regulate the oil. Which is covered as well in these videos as well.
@@charlesjohnson5579 What is the title of the video? I can search for it myself. Also, to share, you can click "share" then "copy to clipboard" then just right click (if you're on a computer) in a comment and "paste" . Or if you're on a phone, just hold your finger down where you would type a comment and options should pop up to either cut copy or paste. Either way, if you could at least kindly tell me the name or title or keywords of the video, then I could put it in a search and hopefully find it, thanks.
@@Hayden734 look up Gerry DIY
Nice build! Thanks for the great video! Most important, don't let your tea get to hot on that thing.
For noise reduction, consider running the blower outside and piping the air into the shop and heater. Obviously cover the blower outside to protect it from the weather.
Great video & build. I now want to build one myself.
A few things....
1. Put fan outside with large intake facing down.
- Less noise inside. I did this decades ago for the air compressor. Works great. I also added a large cheap automotive air filter. This also lowered the noise, inside & out. Also cheaper than replacing specific air compressor filters each month.
- Fresh air from outside. No longer sucking cold air into shop thru walls or cracks. This increases heating efficiency.
2. Put oil tube in center of air inlet tube. Inside fire box.
- To keep oil cool. A safety thing.
Suggestion. Put sheet metal on frame and divert some of your air flow around outside of your heat chamber.... and you have forced air heating....lol
Very cool, I shared it with a friend of mine that is trying to build his own
So cool! Found your channel thanks to Chris Ramsay and am working through all your videos as a result - just really great! Going to send some of these to my brother who is a builder himself (mechanics mostly I think but these might give him some ideas none the less). :)
i have the same toyota and ranger, i live in wa state. good build man!
just an FYI you can remove galvanization from the whole pipe with a quick dip in hydrochloric acid or muriatic acid
Recently discovered your Channel. Absolutely awesome. Skilled and knowledgable. Keep it up
Tate I have watched your video about this heater, and your bug out vehicle and the wheelchair. Dude, you are awesome. Where do you come up with all your fab designs and first sketches? I know, aliens! Keep up all the badass work .Good luck. Ken Fowler Tenn. hillbilly
There's a small hole in your chimney. That setup you have built is excelent and well thought out. I had only heard of waste oil burners before but I had never really looked into how they worked. If it was mine I would be running a coil of copper pipe inside for hot water. I'm sure that, that is much more efficient than a chip heater like the ones that we had when I was a kid in the sixties. Well done all around and thanks for giving me some new ideas to play around with.
Great stuff, there were a few other people saying this, but I'll repeat, music is too loud. Dont take it as criticism of your work. All the best.
Talking, and silence between the talking, is fine. The repetitive boring music doesn't add anything of value.
Yeah, music always needs to mixed a lot lower than what you originally think. Done right music adds a nice contrast, done improperly it just gets in the way.
I'd like the music to be quieter than the talking to be honest, that way if I'm watching a video at night I can set the volume to what is needed to understand what is said and leave it instead of talking then A BLAST OF MUSIC OMG WIFE IS PISSED! I don't like wearing headphones because I can't listen for the other things i need to listen for around the house...animals, kids...phone, whatever..
@@BlackTownie999 Yeah, when you mix the final mix you need to make sure that the master volume doesn't peak above the dialogue even when only music is playing or you'll have a ton of annoyed viewers. I think that sentence made sense. :)
I'm a new subscriber... but I'll be anxiously awaiting the next project. Super Cool channel. Thank you
That is a great heater. when i git my shop i making me one. keep up the great work
Great Idea works and looks great!
This is very cool.. might attempt building this one. Any recommendations to reduce the noise ?
Definitely. Either use a quieter fan, or, if you feel safe doing so, you could make one using the second design. Thank you for the comment.
A VERY thoughtful build!
Great Channel!
But could you please make the music quieter and your voice louder? Its sometimes really hard to understand without turning the speakers to max.
Yes! I'm sorry about that. I'm still trying to figure out how to edit. Thank you for the input!
I'm an HVAC mechanic and if want to get some great parts try to find an old furnace that's getting replaced. If you can find one that has an inducer fan assembly for the flue gas you can use that for your intake fan, it would be much quieter and it would already be 120V. You can also get the 120V to 24V transformer out of it and the blower motor assembly that makes good shop fans. Some also have relays and other electronic parts you can use.
Put a oil drip on woodstove then makes wood last 10 times longer and much hotter. Then wall board insulation. Heats my 24/32 barn awsome. No electric required. But good project
That is what I have been considering so I have multiple options for fuel,I assume if properly placed drip tube I could use wood,coal,a pot for oil only or as you said oil on wood I'm glad to see your comment.
could I do that indoor? My woodstove heats my house nicely but not getting very hot.
Having some thermal mass around the heat source to radiate heat long after the fire is out, helps immensely. Thanks for posting this. So much waste oil.
Seal the holes in a small brake rotor and place it in the woodstove. Install oil dripper tube so it’s over the rotor. Burn wood in the stove as normal and whene the fire is going well, allow oil into the woodstove. The brake rotor keeps the the oil from wicking and Leaching through the ashes to the bottom of the firebox. Before the fire is out, turn the oil off because if it smolders out and the oil doesn’t stay lit, it can puff or “whuff” and blow the chimney off the stove while your not there to save the day.
Nice job! I like it and your gasifier as well.
Wondering what the rivets are made of, if they are aluminium they might not last too long!
Funny enough, I had a blow dryer in my early designs as well, but I was going to use it as is, so that you have somewhat of a speed control as well as a "pre heat" function. Not entirely sure why you went to the lengths of taking it apart. These burners work well indeed, it is a neat design but relies heavily on forced air, it makes it very efficient and clean burning, but you always need power. Good job on this project! I found that ceiling fans work very well as they are very quiet and plug and play.
Good job on your heater. That hair dry fan needs to be replaced. I was wandering if you could use a heater core fan out of a vehicle? Those seem to put out alot of air ,and they're quiet.
That's what I used on my gasifier and it's probably the best solution for this as well. Unfortunately I used the only one I had and I don't really have any vehicle junk yards close to where I live. That would make life so much easier though. XD Thank you for the comment!
Randomonium did I hear you are in WI ? If you are close to where I live I can give you a fan
Rod, quite a lot of oil heaters manage to create a draw with a high chimney. No fan needed then.
@@1943L i get that , but i dont think this heater is gonna work good without a fan,Drawing air in from the top?
Rod, might just be a question of directing the air from low down.
Looks good!
I may have put the screw on cap on the bottom tub to give you more range space to scramble eggs
@Randomonium I Love this simple design, I know it would complicate it, but some type of blower to move the heated air around the room might add to it's efficiency . On a safety note, if the rivets used to hold the bottom section are aluminum the could melt, I would replace them with steel screws or steel rivets.
Awesome build ! Small suggestion ... on the area (ring) that was glowing red, ( where the flame focuses ) on the outside you could tack weld some pieces of square or rectangular tubing going up and down to absorb heat and natural convection flow would push it through the room . I'm thinking 12 - 20 inches but whatever you can bring closest to the floor is best.
Thanks for the well thought out video !
Hmm, you planning grinding them rivets off after every burn so ya can get in to scrape all the crispy crud out of it?
That works exactly like the commercially built paraffin heater in my model engineering club albeit not in terms of the specifics but the club one has a deep cup you light through a hole in the side and then blows heat up through internal pipes and a big slow moving fan blows heat around the club. Thanks for sharing.
PS, I am a little jealous of how fast your channel blew up.... Well done!
You might try adding some insulation, you can get foam board pretty cheap, like even the thinnest stuff would make a huge difference. Just an idea, cool video nonetheless.
I was thinking the same thing, sheet metal walls do not hold heat.
Yeah, not at all. XD I need to look into the insulation. I have to decide whether or not I'm going to upgrade my small space, or save up to build a real workshop someday though.
@@randomn6473 You could perhaps use glass or rock wool, I wouldn't be too keen on insulating a workshop with flammable foam board.
Peace, I gotta share this... 2024 energy! Loving it!!!
this channel pretty good. can I get in contact so I can send you that infrared thermometer?
I know nothing about waste oil heaters but I was glad to see that the design worked
a horizontal section of flue pipe would decrease the huge amount of heat going straight out the chimney
Great video , and yes let see a different blower hooked on there.
Such a shame you have to spend so much energy appeasing the safety nit-pickers! We could all do without the safety grannies! Nice build. I like how fast you talk. Right to the point. We can rewind if we need to hear it twice.
only way I can manage is to run at 0.75x speed - way too fast
Heck yea, this dude just does the dang thang. Love the go get approach. School teaches to study and not do.
I just landed from your tracked vehicle video as everyone seems to, good work on what I've seen so far. I'm subscribing to see some more! Have a good one.
I was surprised with how clean that exhaust is
Dude hopefully I can work through some of my junk in my yard this summer. keep it up
If you want to use gas bottle btw super easy trick, fill it with water before you do anything.. guarantees no gas is left in there.
Done that a number of times building proper insulated rocket heaters.
It had helium in it. Not flammable. But definitely a heads up for people using other types of bottles 👍
Its better to fill the tank with an inert gas like argon. Water should do the trick for most fuels.
@@seanhughes1927 helium is an inert gas. That's what was in the tank he used.
A guy came into our welding shop to have his damaged motorcycle gas tank repaired. We had recommended that he have it steamed before brining it in, but he just washed it out a few times with water and asked if that would be good enough. The owner said it would be fine because he would be standing beside the welder performing the work. He seemed a little nervous about that.
Lol what's the fun of that!
Get this dude monetized so he can build a bigger workshop to build a locomotive sized boiler from spare Yugo parts and tin foil! Love the simplified solutions!
When you shut it down, and the fan is off, what keeps the latent heat from rising up the pipe and melting the plastic fan case, or do you keep it running ?
yep, definitely cut off oil then run fan for a while.
once you know how long it takes to cool, when you shut off oil plug your fan into a timer and let it sort itself out
I just hit the subscribe button so keep the videos coming. For now I’ll be watching your other videos that I haven’t seen yet. Your doing great. 👍🎉
I'm excited to see what your next build is. I watched your first video on the All-terrain vehicle (which by the way was awesome and hope we get to see a v2 of it) and couldn't stop myself from binge watching the rest of them. Won't be to long before you start getting a really big follow.
It's a warm winter here too in Erie PA USA 20F has been our lowest temp, but had over 5 ft of snow so far. We have a woodstove in our 4 car shop. Can you post more video's of your Ripsaw tank, im in the middle of building it. Need more view point of the tank. Would love to see a driving/ offroading video see how it preforms. Thanks.
Yeah, It's weird! It's probably just saving up for 'the big one" haha. Dang. We've only gotten 5 inches! I can't imagine 5 feet!!
It's so cool that you're building your own tank!! I hope you post a video of it when you're done. I hope to soon, but logistics are proving to be difficult. :( If you have any questions then I'll be more than happy to help if I can though.
Thank you for the comment!
The wood stove looked big until I noticed the mug!😁
Good video but I don't see the point of the background music!
Keep up the good work!
I would still add some insulation on the walls and ceiling!
Awesome build and design.
If I were you, I would turn the fuel off first and let everything burn off and cool down. that fan housing is only plastic and I can see the heat coming back up the pipe and melting it.
Great video. Concept, execution, and safety talk. One thing you missed though is if you keep doing what you are with kindling cutting, you will eventually injure your hand. Cut the first one, then pick up the smaller and use it to stabilize the larger and cut. Like how a football kicker uses that little stand to hold the ball for warm up. That way when you miss you hit wood, not flesh and bone. A little extra time and steps in your habits there can save lots of pain, expense, and compromised ability to work with your hands later in life.
look closer and you will see he releases the stick before the hatchet gets near
How do you keep making videos I want to see right when I want to see them? Are you reading my mind?
yup...
@@randomn6473 damn it, that's why i'm getting headaches, interference from you and the lizard alien government....
@@comradesoupbeans4437 Time to break out the tinfoil hat???
A cool trick i found with my heater that i made was i put the burn cup on a pipe that was suspended to the floor and that gave me the opportunity to put a diesel glow plug in the cup so i didnt have to add a hole to start the flame.
those aluminum rivets should be replaced with steel rivets and more of them for safety. The aluminum can melt at high temps
Screws , also a heavy gauge bottom
Wow! Awesome video dude! Definitely got to build me one of these. Thanks.
Been there and done this your gonna regret not being able to clean it out easily
If he lets it cool he might be able to clean the ash with a small shop vac and hose from the top.....just a thought!
i was hoping he would make the cover removable for this exact purpose i think it's probably just gonna fill up with crap and then you can't take it off
You can soak galvanized parts in vinegar to remove that zinc coating!
Thank you for post, but...please repost without annoying music.
Think your design looks and works great!!!. Perhaps some tapped holes and bolts to secure rather than rivets? Maybe a quieter fan, recon that will get annoying while trying to work
If u insulated That wood stove should heat that space no problem.
Exactly wood works on radiating the heat should have had fire bricks and could have used dryer lint for a fire starter instead of kinlin also that wasn't a fair shake for the wood heater since he had a buffer between the thermostat
@@shuntasayles5270 yep insulate and use some brick an that lil stove will run you out
@@stuffhappensdownsouth9899 and held the heat with the proper wood especially one that leaves good coals
That is very nice and is going to make your shop warm good Jodie