Well, i built a super simple burn pot last night using some 1/4" wall 6" pipe, and a plate on the bottom, with an air inlet angled into the burner like you did for the 'anyone can make this' video, and holy crap, what a difference! Easiest she's ever lit, able to add air right away, and gets hot enough to burn any amount of oil i drip into it. Thanks for making these videos! I've learned a lot :)
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that! This is why I put the videos out! I appreciate the kind words as well. You should be able to heat just about anything you want now! Have a great day, and happy burning!
Know karl personally, I have been kicking around the idea on converting my wood boiler for the last 6 months. Didnt know how to build a burner didnt know if i could even hear my boiler. Then i came acrost this video and didnt realize it was karl at first. Seen how simple it was and after watching all his videos and 2 weeks later. I did my first test fire of my boiler on oil and it works :).
Awweee crap lol!! I thought I found my favorite burner design on youtube last week then I saw this!!! Great job brother!! THIS is the one I will be building to heat my shop with!!
Ur a true talent my man. Been fighting with my oil burner for a bit not wanting to cooperate. You've definitely given me a new idea. Thanks and God bless. Stay warm
Thanks! What kind of problems are you having? I might be able to help. I have quite a few videos about different burners. I still have quite a few designs I'll be building as well. Let me know if there is anything I can help with!
My main issue is getting the body of the heater hot. I've discovered that the blower that pushes the air out into the shop completely drains it. I've recently stopped using it and went took the outside body off of it and used it as radiant heat with a box fan. It seemed to help. It's on my channel if you would like to see it run. Like u said we gotta learn to see what it likes and don't like. I really like this setup you did. Only thing I'm curious about is how do we plan to clean it when it comes time for it? It's seems very efficient and would possibly like to do it for mine.
@karlsoffroad8609 you may see something I don't. It did pretty well in the with the weather in the 20 and up degrees but si ce we have had single digits and negative windchill it doesn't seem like it's performing like it think it should
@bluef2501989 ,I just dumped it upside down, and the ash fell right out. I think the burner you want is a few videos back. This one is definitely efficient, but if your stove is cooling down, you'll need more heat from the burner. I had the same stove you have once upon a time, and I really had to put the boots to her to get good heat. I was using wood back then. Do you have the stove blower on a thermostat attached to the fire box? Mine did, but I ended up bypassing that for more heat output. Check out the video titled ,Anyone can build this. That should get her hot!
WOW! First copy of the burner I did 8 years ago I have seen and you did it really well! I'd almost forgotten about this one myself but seeing it again reminds me of a couple of applications I have I could use this design for. I'll have to go whip up another one myself I fed the oil in with the air as per usual and the reason for that was some preheating when it got into the burner proper. Where you have yours on the other end it's not getting that warm up and where you had it running on the castle blower, those little smoke streaks were unburned oil. I would suggest trying feed the oil in the air tube or that end into the burner tube. I think you will find an improvement. For your friends propane burner, if it's running black it's a lack of air. tell him to make sure the jets or aiy inlet mixers are clogged which I am sure something will be. Great to see this design again. I used it for a large BBQ hotplate which was why I made it wide and it worked great. Always fun to tell people it was running off used Fish and chip oil. Well done yet again mate!
I have previously tried to run the air and oil together and had meltdown problems on the air tube. I was running it in my boiler, so it would run for days. I might be able to get away with it in this case because he will only run it for an hour or two at a time. The burner was definitely nice and clean after the castle blower!
Awesome, thank you! I came up with a new design that I've never seen anyone else make, and I'll be working on that build for the next video. Have a great day, and best of luck on your build! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
It's FANTASTIC ! ! ! I was just about to put a comment up while the video was running saying you may want to get more air into the system and even thought about suggesting a bouncy castle blower and you are one step ahead of me.! Yep I could see the blue flames inside the chamber, pity the camera angle wasn't a bit more over but hell yehh what a machine you have built. It looks incredible with on the lower setting and that would suit many peoples needs. I'm trying to think of how it could be installed as a heater so you could see the flames in action behind glass maybe or in a kind of fire place. Plus of course if you want to give it some adrenalin it could be used as a very useful burner for melting all kinds of stuff. It could do with making sure that inner pipe can be removed for cleaning as even though you can burn most of the clinker if you put it on the nuclear setting but you will get some hard dust residue after a while. Maybe have the inner pipe on some sort of flange that bolts on instead of welding it? The quality of the entire build though is absolute top job!
Thanks,I want to start casting some aluminum after watching your videos! I will be trying to make some wheels for my generator. The solid rubber wheels get flat spots,they can't handle 450lbs.I hoped they would, considering they came with it! Lol,I'll have to build a melting furnace first.
Do you have any updated video of this burner being used.? Such a simple awesome idea! I’m thinking about making this and adding it inside my wood furnace in the shop.
@KeilAcres I don't have an updated video. I did use it for a variety of different things since. I used it many times in my outdoor fire pit, and I had it installed in my outdoor boiler as well. It handled the job just fine. I have a lot of people who built one and are using them in their wood stove, and another person fitted it to his hot water heater for his in floor radiant heat system. Easy and reliable. Thanks for watching!
@KeilAcres depends on how good it's burning and how nasty the oil is. It will be pretty obvious if it's getting build up. It will start to burn differently. I would just keep a close eye on it until you get familiar with how it operates best for you. Easy to clean out,so I would recommend cleaning before every fire up. Just to keep it at maximum efficiency.
I was going to use a 1.5-inch pipe,but I didn't have any left. I have some now,so I'll be tinkering with this design. I could go smaller if I have to. I'll post an update if I make any improvements. Thanks!
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that! I will be using this and building an outdoor fire pit. I made some improvements since this video, so I'll show that as well. Thanks for watching!
Hey really would love to see this in your buddies stove . I want to try that in my 20 x 20 shop. Should keep it toasty. Want to build something that can heat my shop hot tub and a 20x20 greenhouse.
We never ended up installing it in his fireplace. I think I'm going to use it in my outdoor fire pit. I did make a few improvements since the video. Maybe I'll do an update?
Good Video, abit confusing at the beginning with all the bits. Explaining the idea of ratio of Air to FueL mixture should’ve been mentioned at the point of required rate of burn and smoke, etc.etc. However thank you for spending the time in making the point of clean burn. Perfectly Understood cause the missing pieces to the Jigsaw went in at the end to complete the picture like a puzzle. 😊
Dude, recycle a few sets of heat exchanger units from gas furnaces , mount them to the back of hole filled plate steel panels on either side of the flames add an air intake and it's a for real furnace. Cool design. I'm gonna try a variant to yours. Thanks
@@IRATE4x4 never ended up installing it for him. He didn't want to have a bucket of oil in his shop or outside. Lol,kinda difficult to use it without oil. I still use this burner in my outdoor fire pit.
I do have a question about waste oil... how do you separate or filter your waste oil? There's been 3x now where I've collected waste oil from a business, and the first few gallons that i collect are no good (stuff from the bottom of the barrel or tote) and i end up stalling out my burner, and having to clean it out, run the oil from my reservoir into another receptical until i get what looks like good black oil again, then try to restart my burner. I end up spending about an hour dealing with it every time it happens, which ends up costing me shop time. Ive got a 55 gallon drum i filter everything into (run it through a fine mesh screen with shop towels to pull out dirt and debris) then it goes into a water separator on the output of the drum that i fill 1 gallon jugs from to fill my reservoir. I don't have any additional filtration, and 90% of the time, im fine, but there have been 3x now that I've been burned hahaha. When i collect from businesses, i tend to pull about 40 gallons at a time, and its sometimes only the first 2 or 3 gallons that are mixed with something that doesn't burn...
I don't filter it at all for my gravity fed burners. That's why they sizzle and flare up quite a bit. I do filter the oil when I pump it,but only for debris, I still burn whatever else goes through the line. I get quite a bit of coolant in my oil,but the burner just burns a bit sporadic as it burns through it. I'll be posting a video this week showing that exact situation. I've only had one time in three years of burning waste oil where the burner actually went out. The last 300 gallons I picked up have been some of the most contaminated and nasty oil I've ever used. Lol, it still burns,just a bit cranky!
@@karlsoffroad one of the places i gather oil from is a tire shop, and they use beet juice for ballast in tires. back when i worked there, i set up a tote for collecting waste oil, because we had a steel barrel before, and it would overflow constantly haha. i have ran beet juice through my burner 3 times now :P it boils like sugar, then turns rock hard. literally have to wait till everything cools enough to handle, then chisel the stuff off everything haha! ive burned coolant contaminated oil before, it just makes a weird sizzle with some little flashy flames and keeps going. i run my burner pretty hot, as my shop doesnt have insulation but it does have plenty of air gaps haha! ill be curious to see what you do for debris filtering. i drilled a bunch of holes in a 5 gallon bucket, put some shop towels around it, then backed it with some of that fine mesh. was a pain to set up, and i only got about 14 gallons through it before it clogged, so i stopped hahaha! need to come up with a better way to filter it :P before i did that though, id end up with pine needles and small leaves stuck in my supply line valve haha! havent had that issue since thankfully :) just gotta streamline the process now
@@analog56x,I'm in the process of editing, so I should have the video up by Thursday night or Friday morning. I had the same problems with my oil before I came up with what I'm using now. I can filter around 600 gallons, sometimes way more, if I let it settle. I will include part numbers as well to the parts I'm using.
The small blower is a Dayton 1TDN7A. It's 50 CFM and a very low power draw .22 amps, which equals out to about 20 watts at 120 volts. I think I am actually achieving over unity! Lol
@@karlsoffroad thanks for the info. I’m thinking about making this style burner and put it in a salamander style heater. Something for quick heat when I’m only going to be in the shop for two or three hours. My wood stove takes an hour to get humming and burns for four or more hours and a lot of times is just to damn much heat. I live in East Texas a lot of the time it’s chilly not cold if that makes sense.
Neat setup... I saw a comment about increasing the air hole size to increase the airflow for a hotter, cleaner blue burn, have you tried this? Also, how about funning the oil feed inside the air pipe and bringing it out at the base or the air pipe, central with the burn slot? Bit tricky to set up but could be more efficient as the waste oil would be more evenly distributed over the burn area.
@hughscarlett1231 I have made some modifications to get some blue flame, I haven't achieved all blue yet. I tried the oil line in the air tube but always ends up plugged with burnt oil. I have my outdoor boiler setup that way,but it has a powerful blower that keeps the oil line cool enough. That runs 24/7 for about 6-7 months. I have a couple of videos on that as well. I'm on year 4 with no issues. I'll do an update video on this burner soon. I have been using it in my outdoor fire pit. Thanks for watching!
The ratio between burnable oilgas and air is not good enough in this burner to get a proper blue flame and complete combustion. You need to reduce the surface area of the oil to get a better fuel to air ratio. You can see that when you put on a bigger fan at the end. Since it pumps in a lot more air, you can burn off more oil fumes. It's a good burner, but it would be way more fuel efficient if you somehow reduced the amount of oil fumes.
I just turned it upside down and dumped the ash out. You could scrape it if you needed to. The slot is fairly large. I just tapped it on the ground a few times and dumped it in the garbage can.
i took some time off work and built a big waste oil burner for my shop, and have been having so many issues with it... i was using N/A and i think thats my biggest problem... i need to install a blower onto the intake to fully utilize the thing's potential... i could get it absolutely rippin hot and make the whole burner section of the stove glow red hot, but it was burning so incredibly dirty doing that... i made a small "injector" using some tiny air line shoved into the oil supply line, and was able to turn the oil flow down by about 1/3 and it burned just as hot. im definitely adding some forced air to this thing ASAP... theres no reason to freeze my arse off in the shop when i have this unit in there... i had almost given up on it too... but another thing, i replaced my old wood stove with this burner i made, and now im thinking about building a small device like this that i can stick inside the wood stove, and then be able to run both wood or oil... subscribed, and will follow for more of this awesome stuff! cheers!
@JediStockTrader about 1 quart per hour with the 50 cfm blower that i used.The more air you add, the more oil it will use. I use this burner all the time in my outdoor fire pit. I prefer this over wood because there's no smoke.
Through the copper line at the right side of the burner. Gravity fed from a 5 gallon bucket with a ball valve and a homemade sight glass. I show the oil feed setup in a previous video, as simple as it gets. I would recommend a needle valve for more precise regulation.
@@karlsoffroad This is not what I mean, brother....I did not see how you install the oil line that feeds the burner with oil, how to weld it, and how it looks from the inside.
@azadwlat8359 ,it just sits in a .375 hole drilled through the end of the pipe on the far right of the burner. Small. 375 inch copper line gravity fed from a 5 gallon bucket.
@@karlsoffroad I run my own heavy equipment repair business and currently heat my shop with the waste oil it generates. It burns clean and puts out plenty of heat, but needs a lot of cleaning and fiddling around with. I think your forced air design will run cleaner for longer. My problem is I get everything from gear oil to contaminated gasoline in my storage tanks, so I'm hunting for a true multi fuel burner that will burn really clean.
@paulfay357,I run everything, including water and coolant through my burners. I have to clean about every 24 hours. Check out the burner in my outdoor boiler. Heats my house and my shop. It's titled "How I heat my home for Free " about 10 videos back. I can let that run for 48 hours straight before it needs to be cleaned. I usually do it every morning after my coffee. That's why I'm in my pajamas! Lol
@@karlsoffroad I'll do it. Appreciate the advice. Right now I'm running a naturally aspirated burner inside an old wood furnace. I've noticed that when the fresh air going in reaches zero or below, the burner plugs up by lunch and I start getting smoke out the chimney. I think the setup you have for your house developes the heat needed to burn that sh#t up ..lol 24 hours between clean outs would be more than adequate for me. Maybe one of these days, Santa Claus will bring me some insulation for my shop so that I don't need 300,000 BTUs to get the dang thing above freezing in the winter.
We had our kids’ school cancel mid day a bit ago and they made all the parents come get the kids and had the busses running during the most dangerous part of the blizzard. When school was supposed to be over the roads were clear and it was barely snowing.
CAN YOU SEND THE LINK TO UPDATE VIDEO WITH IT IN THE FIREPLACE? I'D LIKE TO SEE IT INSTALLED. I LOOKED ON THE CHANNEL BUT DIDN'T SEE IT. POSSIBLY OVERLOOKED IT.
@karlsoffroad DANG REALLY? WAS LOOK FORWARD TO SEE IT INSTALLED IN ONE AND HOW WELL IT WORKED. GOT ME TO THINKING MAYBE DO IT TO MINE. NICE WORK ON THE DESIGN.
@jackjohnson6074 Thanks! He wasn't really keen on a bucket of oil sitting on the shelf. He was worried about leaks and making a mess. He has a pretty fancy man cave, so I understand. He's a Mason, so it's all fancy stonework and brick.
@@azadwlat8359 I'll have to do a test to find out. That's a hard question to answer. The amount of heat you need is the best way to find out how much fuel you will need. You can only get so many btus per gallon of fuel.
is your friends propane burner set up for natural gas? if so he needs to change the jets to propane if they are natural gas jets it will burn extremely sooty
I just turn it upside down and tap it a few times. I haven't had it get any build-up stuck yet. I will do an update video and show how it's holding up. Thanks for watching!
Definitely legal in Michigan! Almost every shop in town and surrounding areas have a waste oil burner for heating. That's an excellent point for anyone watching, though! Thank you,and I'll be sure to include that in future videos!
@hfortman3076 I have been running it for a long time and haven't had any issues yet. To clean it, I just tap it on the ground and dump it out. Don't get much build-up out of it.
@@karlsoffroad The one I built was much different and I do not use a forced air. It does burn Rich and carbons up. I burn 5 to 7 gallons of used oil a day. After two years I have to make a new burner . Next time I'm building it out of cast iron.
@hfortman3076 forced air is the key. I have tried to make them without using a blower, and I have always had just a little smoke. With a blower, no smoke and run very clean.
@@karlsoffroad If I could figure out how to automatedly turn it up and down so as not to cook the shop I would go with forced air. The way I have mine I can adjust the drip down and just have a little flame in the tank where I'm not afraid to go off and leave it for a few hours. Funny thing is the build up of carbon makes it easier to start. Anyway its cheap heat and unlike a wood stove you can let it go out in a few minuets. Pro's and cons with most every design. Glad its not carboning up for you.
Thank you captain obvious, I don't think there was ever any question of what was making it burn black probably more why is it not getting enough air but just in case thank you for putting out what everybody already knew 🤣
@@yachtsteveHey Einstein The answer to why it's not getting enough air is right there. The lack of an air entrainment valve..... You know the part that adds the needed air.
Well, i built a super simple burn pot last night using some 1/4" wall 6" pipe, and a plate on the bottom, with an air inlet angled into the burner like you did for the 'anyone can make this' video, and holy crap, what a difference! Easiest she's ever lit, able to add air right away, and gets hot enough to burn any amount of oil i drip into it. Thanks for making these videos! I've learned a lot :)
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that! This is why I put the videos out! I appreciate the kind words as well. You should be able to heat just about anything you want now! Have a great day, and happy burning!
The fumes from burning oil are toxic. Must vent
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Know karl personally,
I have been kicking around the idea on converting my wood boiler for the last 6 months. Didnt know how to build a burner didnt know if i could even hear my boiler.
Then i came acrost this video and didnt realize it was karl at first.
Seen how simple it was and after watching all his videos and 2 weeks later. I did my first test fire of my boiler on oil and it works :).
For 2 years I have been looking at different burners,,,,,
I think I just found the best one 👍👍👍
Thank you!
I agree!
Probably the best design i've seen!!! And I've been looking at this stuff for years
Thank you!
I think that's about the best design I've seen yet
Awweee crap lol!! I thought I found my favorite burner design on youtube last week then I saw this!!! Great job brother!! THIS is the one I will be building to heat my shop with!!
Ur a true talent my man. Been fighting with my oil burner for a bit not wanting to cooperate. You've definitely given me a new idea. Thanks and God bless. Stay warm
Thanks! What kind of problems are you having? I might be able to help. I have quite a few videos about different burners. I still have quite a few designs I'll be building as well. Let me know if there is anything I can help with!
My main issue is getting the body of the heater hot. I've discovered that the blower that pushes the air out into the shop completely drains it. I've recently stopped using it and went took the outside body off of it and used it as radiant heat with a box fan. It seemed to help. It's on my channel if you would like to see it run. Like u said we gotta learn to see what it likes and don't like. I really like this setup you did. Only thing I'm curious about is how do we plan to clean it when it comes time for it? It's seems very efficient and would possibly like to do it for mine.
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@karlsoffroad8609 you may see something I don't. It did pretty well in the with the weather in the 20 and up degrees but si ce we have had single digits and negative windchill it doesn't seem like it's performing like it think it should
@bluef2501989 ,I just dumped it upside down, and the ash fell right out. I think the burner you want is a few videos back. This one is definitely efficient, but if your stove is cooling down, you'll need more heat from the burner. I had the same stove you have once upon a time, and I really had to put the boots to her to get good heat. I was using wood back then. Do you have the stove blower on a thermostat attached to the fire box? Mine did, but I ended up bypassing that for more heat output. Check out the video titled ,Anyone can build this. That should get her hot!
Thanks for this! I was looking for linear burner running on liquid fuels and this is the only true video that meets that criteria.
@synth1002 You're welcome! I'm glad I could help. I have a new design idea I'm going to try soon. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for such a great idea,,been building for over 20 yrs ,,definitely gonna try this
@@kenkoss7921 that's great! Post an update on how it goes for you! Thanks for watching!
simple but works ... great job Sir.
Holy crap @ that bonus footage! THAT THING IS BLASTING!
Definitely putting out the heat! Lol
WOW! First copy of the burner I did 8 years ago I have seen and you did it really well!
I'd almost forgotten about this one myself but seeing it again reminds me of a couple of applications I have I could use this design for. I'll have to go whip up another one myself
I fed the oil in with the air as per usual and the reason for that was some preheating when it got into the burner proper. Where you have yours on the other end it's not getting that warm up and where you had it running on the castle blower, those little smoke streaks were unburned oil. I would suggest trying feed the oil in the air tube or that end into the burner tube. I think you will find an improvement.
For your friends propane burner, if it's running black it's a lack of air. tell him to make sure the jets or aiy inlet mixers are clogged which I am sure something will be.
Great to see this design again. I used it for a large BBQ hotplate which was why I made it wide and it worked great. Always fun to tell people it was running off used Fish and chip oil.
Well done yet again mate!
I have previously tried to run the air and oil together and had meltdown problems on the air tube. I was running it in my boiler, so it would run for days. I might be able to get away with it in this case because he will only run it for an hour or two at a time. The burner was definitely nice and clean after the castle blower!
this would be a great removable insert for my shop wood burner furnace !!! Keep up the great work .
That's how it will be installed in his fireplace. Throw it in when you need it and remove it when you don't. Thanks for watching!
Very nice design 👍
This is awesome you earned a subscriber! I am going to build this for my barrel stove in my shop!
Awesome, thank you! I came up with a new design that I've never seen anyone else make, and I'll be working on that build for the next video. Have a great day, and best of luck on your build! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
@karlsoffroad8609 post your email and I'll send you pictures.
Wow, looking good, Karl 🙂
Thank you!
@@karlsoffroad Looking forward to your next video.
Very neat idea looks like it will work awesome
Nice desing!!
Maverick would be proud of you 👍... initiate the afterburner!
Best design!!! Will make like this and attached to oven! ❤❤❤
That's cool as anything on the net!! I'm going to make something like that!!
Thanks, and good luck with your build!
Brilliant, I just have to make this. Thanks for the tutorial
@philipfranklin5384 Best of luck! Feel free to reach out with any questions. Thanks for watching!
Been looking for a good one fir sometime and found this , it’s the best one ever
@@maxmott7489 Thank you! Simple and effective.
And please I love to see how that works out that looks really good
Excellent video
Thank you!
Nice work
@@michaelsimpson9779 Thank you!
It's FANTASTIC ! ! ! I was just about to put a comment up while the video was running saying you may want to get more air into the system and even thought about suggesting a bouncy castle blower and you are one step ahead of me.! Yep I could see the blue flames inside the chamber, pity the camera angle wasn't a bit more over but hell yehh what a machine you have built. It looks incredible with on the lower setting and that would suit many peoples needs. I'm trying to think of how it could be installed as a heater so you could see the flames in action behind glass maybe or in a kind of fire place. Plus of course if you want to give it some adrenalin it could be used as a very useful burner for melting all kinds of stuff. It could do with making sure that inner pipe can be removed for cleaning as even though you can burn most of the clinker if you put it on the nuclear setting but you will get some hard dust residue after a while. Maybe have the inner pipe on some sort of flange that bolts on instead of welding it? The quality of the entire build though is absolute top job!
I'll cut it off,clean it, and weld it back on! Lol
Nice good job sir😊new friend from the Philippines ❤ Done subscribed 👍
Thank you!
really nice looking job man. cheers
Thanks,I want to start casting some aluminum after watching your videos! I will be trying to make some wheels for my generator. The solid rubber wheels get flat spots,they can't handle 450lbs.I hoped they would, considering they came with it! Lol,I'll have to build a melting furnace first.
@@karlsoffroad right on man. ill be looking forward to that. the casting is good fun for sure.
Do you have any updated video of this burner being used.? Such a simple awesome idea! I’m thinking about making this and adding it inside my wood furnace in the shop.
@KeilAcres I don't have an updated video. I did use it for a variety of different things since. I used it many times in my outdoor fire pit, and I had it installed in my outdoor boiler as well. It handled the job just fine. I have a lot of people who built one and are using them in their wood stove, and another person fitted it to his hot water heater for his in floor radiant heat system. Easy and reliable. Thanks for watching!
@ great work! Such a simple easy design. Is there much junk in the bottom to clean out time to time..?
@KeilAcres depends on how good it's burning and how nasty the oil is. It will be pretty obvious if it's getting build up. It will start to burn differently. I would just keep a close eye on it until you get familiar with how it operates best for you. Easy to clean out,so I would recommend cleaning before every fire up. Just to keep it at maximum efficiency.
Saludos desde Uruguay: muy buen trabajo, voy a intentar hacerlo., gracias por tus aportes
I have a old crowne boiler that is to small to really heat my house efficiently, wonder if I could adapt it to something like this
nice design Karl, insert pipe sitting kitty-wonkus is not allowed, kinda looks like something I took off the ol`dodge exhaust... smiles...
Very nice setup.
I think you could get away with a smaller air insert pipe and this will allow the fire to "breath" a little bit better.
I was going to use a 1.5-inch pipe,but I didn't have any left. I have some now,so I'll be tinkering with this design. I could go smaller if I have to. I'll post an update if I make any improvements. Thanks!
I made a smaller version of this after watching......it works great ❤❤❤
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that! I will be using this and building an outdoor fire pit. I made some improvements since this video, so I'll show that as well. Thanks for watching!
What about taking a small turbo from the exhaust to provide your air flow?
You'd still have to spin the turbo with something. I don't think it would have anywhere near enough draw to get it spooled up.
That thing is crazy!! 😊
Hey really would love to see this in your buddies stove . I want to try that in my 20 x 20 shop. Should keep it toasty. Want to build something that can heat my shop hot tub and a 20x20 greenhouse.
We never ended up installing it in his fireplace. I think I'm going to use it in my outdoor fire pit. I did make a few improvements since the video. Maybe I'll do an update?
Nice idea thanks 😊
Good Video, abit confusing at the beginning with all the bits. Explaining the idea of ratio of Air to FueL mixture should’ve been mentioned at the point of required rate of burn and smoke, etc.etc. However thank you for spending the time in making the point of clean burn.
Perfectly Understood cause the missing pieces to the Jigsaw went in at the end to complete the picture like a puzzle. 😊
Dude, recycle a few sets of heat exchanger units from gas furnaces , mount them to the back of hole filled plate steel panels on either side of the flames add an air intake and it's a for real furnace. Cool design. I'm gonna try a variant to yours. Thanks
Excellent
@@genocanabicea5779 thank you! It's a great little burner.
Been thinking of doing this same thing to convert my wood stove. Did you put up another video of it installed and running?
@@IRATE4x4 never ended up installing it for him. He didn't want to have a bucket of oil in his shop or outside. Lol,kinda difficult to use it without oil. I still use this burner in my outdoor fire pit.
I do have a question about waste oil... how do you separate or filter your waste oil? There's been 3x now where I've collected waste oil from a business, and the first few gallons that i collect are no good (stuff from the bottom of the barrel or tote) and i end up stalling out my burner, and having to clean it out, run the oil from my reservoir into another receptical until i get what looks like good black oil again, then try to restart my burner. I end up spending about an hour dealing with it every time it happens, which ends up costing me shop time. Ive got a 55 gallon drum i filter everything into (run it through a fine mesh screen with shop towels to pull out dirt and debris) then it goes into a water separator on the output of the drum that i fill 1 gallon jugs from to fill my reservoir. I don't have any additional filtration, and 90% of the time, im fine, but there have been 3x now that I've been burned hahaha. When i collect from businesses, i tend to pull about 40 gallons at a time, and its sometimes only the first 2 or 3 gallons that are mixed with something that doesn't burn...
I don't filter it at all for my gravity fed burners. That's why they sizzle and flare up quite a bit. I do filter the oil when I pump it,but only for debris, I still burn whatever else goes through the line. I get quite a bit of coolant in my oil,but the burner just burns a bit sporadic as it burns through it. I'll be posting a video this week showing that exact situation. I've only had one time in three years of burning waste oil where the burner actually went out. The last 300 gallons I picked up have been some of the most contaminated and nasty oil I've ever used. Lol, it still burns,just a bit cranky!
@@karlsoffroad one of the places i gather oil from is a tire shop, and they use beet juice for ballast in tires. back when i worked there, i set up a tote for collecting waste oil, because we had a steel barrel before, and it would overflow constantly haha. i have ran beet juice through my burner 3 times now :P it boils like sugar, then turns rock hard. literally have to wait till everything cools enough to handle, then chisel the stuff off everything haha! ive burned coolant contaminated oil before, it just makes a weird sizzle with some little flashy flames and keeps going. i run my burner pretty hot, as my shop doesnt have insulation but it does have plenty of air gaps haha! ill be curious to see what you do for debris filtering. i drilled a bunch of holes in a 5 gallon bucket, put some shop towels around it, then backed it with some of that fine mesh. was a pain to set up, and i only got about 14 gallons through it before it clogged, so i stopped hahaha! need to come up with a better way to filter it :P before i did that though, id end up with pine needles and small leaves stuck in my supply line valve haha! havent had that issue since thankfully :) just gotta streamline the process now
@@analog56x,I'm in the process of editing, so I should have the video up by Thursday night or Friday morning. I had the same problems with my oil before I came up with what I'm using now. I can filter around 600 gallons, sometimes way more, if I let it settle. I will include part numbers as well to the parts I'm using.
@@karlsoffroad awesome! I cant wait, cheers
Good job bro
Thank you!
I like this burner most of all. Thanks for all the specs. What? Where? About the small blower? And too cfm if you know that one. Thanks
The small blower is a Dayton 1TDN7A. It's 50 CFM and a very low power draw .22 amps, which equals out to about 20 watts at 120 volts. I think I am actually achieving over unity! Lol
@@karlsoffroad thanks for the info. I’m thinking about making this style burner and put it in a salamander style heater. Something for quick heat when I’m only going to be in the shop for two or three hours. My wood stove takes an hour to get humming and burns for four or more hours and a lot of times is just to damn much heat. I live in East Texas a lot of the time it’s chilly not cold if that makes sense.
@nickd5943 ,should work great for that. Quick heat and quick shutdown! I'm in the thumb of Michigan, so cold all the time! Lol
Im gonna diy it 😎 thanx bro the best 👌 one
Thank you!
@karlsoffroad8609 what is diameter of 2 pipe ??
@shadi.y , the outside pipe is 3 inch,and the inner pipe is 1.75 inch.
Man that’s awesome
@@moeandco. thank you!
What CFM fan were you using before the bounce house blower?
@MrDozer120 , 50 CFM, it's a Dayton 1TDN7A
Nice design. Hows the smell of burning oil? Im interested.
There isn't much of an odor. Similar to a modern vehicle running, if it's burning clean.
Does the oil feed in to the inner tube, or the outer tube???
The outer tube.
Simple and effective
@boadisamuel7583 Thank you!
Neat setup... I saw a comment about increasing the air hole size to increase the airflow for a hotter, cleaner blue burn, have you tried this? Also, how about funning the oil feed inside the air pipe and bringing it out at the base or the air pipe, central with the burn slot? Bit tricky to set up but could be more efficient as the waste oil would be more evenly distributed over the burn area.
@hughscarlett1231 I have made some modifications to get some blue flame, I haven't achieved all blue yet. I tried the oil line in the air tube but always ends up plugged with burnt oil. I have my outdoor boiler setup that way,but it has a powerful blower that keeps the oil line cool enough. That runs 24/7 for about 6-7 months. I have a couple of videos on that as well. I'm on year 4 with no issues. I'll do an update video on this burner soon. I have been using it in my outdoor fire pit. Thanks for watching!
So I can use the old oil from my car for this in my shop? Do I need to add diesel?
I just use a little diesel to light it,after that pure oil.
Very cool how much to make me one
@tangowiskey4740 $100,plus shipping, fully welded and ready to go. Would be used at your own risk. I'm just throwing that out there to cover my butt.
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The ratio between burnable oilgas and air is not good enough in this burner to get a proper blue flame and complete combustion. You need to reduce the surface area of the oil to get a better fuel to air ratio. You can see that when you put on a bigger fan at the end. Since it pumps in a lot more air, you can burn off more oil fumes. It's a good burner, but it would be way more fuel efficient if you somehow reduced the amount of oil fumes.
"This oil has some water in it" , is most likely why the orange flame.
And the fact it's a test run, not fully set up yet.
Got a challenge for ya.. wise way gravity feed pellet stove. Can you make a burner that would work in that stove? If so I would buy it. TIA
I'll look up the stove and see if I can. Thanks for the challenge!
Great looking, but is this cleanable? Knock it out and fish around with a bend wire and a brush maybe? Have you tired to clean it yet?
I just turned it upside down and dumped the ash out. You could scrape it if you needed to. The slot is fairly large. I just tapped it on the ground a few times and dumped it in the garbage can.
Definitely a great design! Everything still going good on your home boiler this heating season?
Yes,it's -10 this morning and still nice and toasty warm! I have my shop at 80 and the house at 72,wouldn't even know it's cold out! Lol
i took some time off work and built a big waste oil burner for my shop, and have been having so many issues with it... i was using N/A and i think thats my biggest problem... i need to install a blower onto the intake to fully utilize the thing's potential... i could get it absolutely rippin hot and make the whole burner section of the stove glow red hot, but it was burning so incredibly dirty doing that... i made a small "injector" using some tiny air line shoved into the oil supply line, and was able to turn the oil flow down by about 1/3 and it burned just as hot. im definitely adding some forced air to this thing ASAP... theres no reason to freeze my arse off in the shop when i have this unit in there... i had almost given up on it too... but another thing, i replaced my old wood stove with this burner i made, and now im thinking about building a small device like this that i can stick inside the wood stove, and then be able to run both wood or oil... subscribed, and will follow for more of this awesome stuff! cheers!
Nice build ! You gonna run it in waste oil ? Hope it does not clog up because it may be hard to clean
It was running on waste oil in the video. I just dumped the ash out afterward. I can get in there to scrape it out through the slot if needed.
Without sound, boys…. Your thing goes in like this after you get married. 😂😂😂😂
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How much oil does this consume per hr?
@JediStockTrader about 1 quart per hour with the 50 cfm blower that i used.The more air you add, the more oil it will use. I use this burner all the time in my outdoor fire pit. I prefer this over wood because there's no smoke.
How's the oil getting in there?
Through the copper line at the right side of the burner. Gravity fed from a 5 gallon bucket with a ball valve and a homemade sight glass. I show the oil feed setup in a previous video, as simple as it gets. I would recommend a needle valve for more precise regulation.
Where do you get the oil from, brother? I don't see the oil pipe
I pump the local oil change shop and local parts stores. They keep me full almost always. I hope that's what you are asking? Lol
@@karlsoffroad This is not what I mean, brother....I did not see how you install the oil line that feeds the burner with oil, how to weld it, and how it looks from the inside.
@azadwlat8359 ,it just sits in a .375 hole drilled through the end of the pipe on the far right of the burner. Small. 375 inch copper line gravity fed from a 5 gallon bucket.
Very nice! Are you concerned that it will eventually coke up and need to be cleaned?
Thank you! I'm not really concerned about that. I can have another one on standby, just in case. I have about $15 invested.
@@karlsoffroad
I run my own heavy equipment repair business and currently heat my shop with the waste oil it generates. It burns clean and puts out plenty of heat, but needs a lot of cleaning and fiddling around with. I think your forced air design will run cleaner for longer. My problem is I get everything from gear oil to contaminated gasoline in my storage tanks, so I'm hunting for a true multi fuel burner that will burn really clean.
@paulfay357,I run everything, including water and coolant through my burners. I have to clean about every 24 hours. Check out the burner in my outdoor boiler. Heats my house and my shop. It's titled "How I heat my home for Free " about 10 videos back. I can let that run for 48 hours straight before it needs to be cleaned. I usually do it every morning after my coffee. That's why I'm in my pajamas! Lol
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I'll do it. Appreciate the advice. Right now I'm running a naturally aspirated burner inside an old wood furnace. I've noticed that when the fresh air going in reaches zero or below, the burner plugs up by lunch and I start getting smoke out the chimney. I think the setup you have for your house developes the heat needed to burn that sh#t up ..lol
24 hours between clean outs would be more than adequate for me. Maybe one of these days, Santa Claus will bring me some insulation for my shop so that I don't need 300,000 BTUs to get the dang thing above freezing in the winter.
Can you provide a parts list, and do you think this would work in a 55 gallon drum for safety?
We had our kids’ school cancel mid day a bit ago and they made all the parents come get the kids and had the busses running during the most dangerous part of the blizzard. When school was supposed to be over the roads were clear and it was barely snowing.
Same thing that happened here. I don't mind driving in it,but a lot of people should just stay home when it's bad out!
You could make some or buy some ceramic logs to place in front for appearance.
@@genocanabicea5779 I will try to find some out of a gas fireplace. Great idea!
Afterburner was it!!!
WHAT!? you didn't use the eye-crometer for the holes that you drilled?🤨
Great working burner.
Lol,no,I went with a traditional measuring device!
CAN YOU SEND THE LINK TO UPDATE VIDEO WITH IT IN THE FIREPLACE? I'D LIKE TO SEE IT INSTALLED. I LOOKED ON THE CHANNEL BUT DIDN'T SEE IT. POSSIBLY OVERLOOKED IT.
@jackjohnson6074 I never installed it,he went with a wood stove instead. He didn't want a tank of oil in his shop.
@karlsoffroad DANG REALLY? WAS LOOK FORWARD TO SEE IT INSTALLED IN ONE AND HOW WELL IT WORKED. GOT ME TO THINKING MAYBE DO IT TO MINE. NICE WORK ON THE DESIGN.
@jackjohnson6074 Thanks! He wasn't really keen on a bucket of oil sitting on the shelf. He was worried about leaks and making a mess. He has a pretty fancy man cave, so I understand. He's a Mason, so it's all fancy stonework and brick.
How much oil is burned in 10 consecutive hours?
@@azadwlat8359 I'll have to do a test to find out. That's a hard question to answer. The amount of heat you need is the best way to find out how much fuel you will need. You can only get so many btus per gallon of fuel.
is your friends propane burner set up for natural gas? if so he needs to change the jets to propane if they are natural gas jets it will burn extremely sooty
No,it's an outdoor fire feature. He built a custom fireplace to put it in. He only uses it once in a while.
What about the ash and cleaning it out? Must be a nightmare.
I just turn it upside down and tap it a few times. I haven't had it get any build-up stuck yet. I will do an update video and show how it's holding up. Thanks for watching!
add a water mist the fuel will burn cleaner you will have o emissions out the exhaust
MKe sure it's legal to burn waste oil in your state first. It's illegal in nys to burn used oil
Definitely legal in Michigan! Almost every shop in town and surrounding areas have a waste oil burner for heating. That's an excellent point for anyone watching, though! Thank you,and I'll be sure to include that in future videos!
That will carbon up and be very hard to clean.
@hfortman3076 I have been running it for a long time and haven't had any issues yet. To clean it, I just tap it on the ground and dump it out. Don't get much build-up out of it.
@@karlsoffroad The one I built was much different and I do not use a forced air. It does burn Rich and carbons up. I burn 5 to 7 gallons of used oil a day. After two years I have to make a new burner . Next time I'm building it out of cast iron.
@hfortman3076 forced air is the key. I have tried to make them without using a blower, and I have always had just a little smoke. With a blower, no smoke and run very clean.
@@karlsoffroad If I could figure out how to automatedly turn it up and down so as not to cook the shop I would go with forced air. The way I have mine I can adjust the drip down and just have a little flame in the tank where I'm not afraid to go off and leave it for a few hours. Funny thing is the build up of carbon makes it easier to start. Anyway its cheap heat and unlike a wood stove you can let it go out in a few minuets. Pro's and cons with most every design. Glad its not carboning up for you.
The propane was burning black soot because it needed air. An air entrainment valve would fix that
Thank you captain obvious, I don't think there was ever any question of what was making it burn black probably more why is it not getting enough air but just in case thank you for putting out what everybody already knew 🤣
@@yachtsteveHey Einstein
The answer to why it's not getting enough air is right there. The lack of an air entrainment valve..... You know the part that adds the needed air.
Relax bro propane torch
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Made this one... my fuel is used cooking oil disposed by restaurants.
A stronger blower will get you the
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Propane needs more oxygen.
@akbychoice it's an outdoor burner,so I'm not sure how it could get any more oxygen. It's wide open to the air.
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