Made from a 55gal water heater, 2 pieces of 2 3/8" OD tubing 4ft long, one 180* mandrel 2.5" OD bend, one 6ft piece of 4" tubing, 36" 3/16 copper tubing, one needle valve, one large nut and bolt, couple pieces of 5/8" fuel line, one piece of scrap flat bar, one 8" steel skillet, handful of gravel, one steel fence cap (4").  I use a heatgun for forced air...you don't need a lot of air.

The construction is pretty self explanatory from the pic.  What you can't see is even with the door is the piece of flat steel...I used a 4" wide piece of 3/8" plate that have been carved up for end caps (lots of holes in it).  The burner sits on this.

The burner is easy...take the skillet, fill it with gravel, then put your dome fence post cap in the middle.  The oil drips into the cap, which allows it to pool.  Ideally it'll boil here releasing fumes and vapors.  You want to burn the vapors more than anyting else.

The one piece of 2 3/8" tubing can be seen...the other mirrors it inside.  The end sits right about center of the heater inside right over the burner (about 6" above it)  This is your forced air tube.

The copper tubing enters about a foot above the furner and wraps around the forced air tube 3 or 4 times.  The end is pointed down about 8" above the burner.  This will feed your burner.  The other end will have your needle valve attached to it.

Needle valve is easy...this works exactly like the needle in your carburetors.  Opening the vlave lifts the needle...higher the needle, the more fuel flows.  This allows us to setup a drip.  One end connects to your fuel supply, the other to your burner supply.  As the oil travels the copper tubing it is heated, then it falls into the burner where it begins to boil.

Starting it is easy...open her up, fill your cap with kerosene, or a gasoline/diesel or gasoline/oil mix.  Light it up but don't turn your blower on.  After it's lit start a SLOW drip.  After the starter has burned off the bowl will be hot enough to maintane a burn and you can set your flow rate to whatever you want.  For a very cool, slow burn, leave the blower off.  For real heat setup to run about 4~5ml/sec and turn your fan on.  After a pool builds in your burner cut the flow back to 2~4ml/sec.  1ml = 1 drop.

Thing burns anything petroleum based...gasoline, diesel, oil, whatever...and vegie oils and such.  Pretty much anything that will ignite when hot.  Canola oil burns crazy but you have to get a big pool boiling off crazy fast to get it to work propperly.  Clean dino will burn really hot but you don't need as much fuel to keep it going.  Used greases and oils work good but make more smoke under all conditions.  I like clean canola so far because it releases almost no fumes under the right burn conditions...no smoke...just heat...but it burns way too fast and costs too much.  Since I don't have a lot of clean fuels and the used stuff all burns about the same I just mix it all together.



Only real problem I see at the moment is that the cap will have to be cleaned frequently.  Nothing else really gets too dirty to worry about, but that cap gets caked up with coal and paper ash anytime the heat isn't perfect.  This is the point of using a fence cap as your burner surface...it's small and removeable.  The skillet and gravel is to provide and overflow spillway and a heater for the cap (some of the gravel gets red hot).

I'm currently making a smaller one...35 gallons...it'll be a bit more efficient, I think, and it'll look a lot better...but I'm going to sell it.  How much should I try and get?

just ran out of fuel a minute ago...which means that she burns about 3/4qt or waste 10~40 in 45 minutes running balls out.

haha no one cared last time I built one either lol

Mak- I dont know what to say.  But if you ever build a time machine let me know.

I've been working on it...it keeps getting put asside to work on realistic projects.

so what does it do? burn used oil?


there is thing out there now that burns cleaner and safer and wopnt void home insurance its called a propain heater

Actually propain won't burn cleaner than oil.  Both require a catalyst to be emmisions friendly...both are just as toxic.

It heats my shop using anything potentially flamible.

youve got a small bomb right next to it, (wd-40 can) , but nice work man 

that's actually waste oil...it's fuel...a legit can of WD wouldn't be too dangerous right there anyway.

gasoline would worry me.

The word "burninator" made me click.

haven't heard of the burninator?  He's a badass...all burninating everything...

wd-40 isnt as cunbustable as every one thinks.  cool stuff

Quote from: rangerbrown on October 19, 2006, 05:50:17 PM
so what does it do? burn used oil?


there is thing out there now that burns cleaner and safer and wopnt void home insurance its called a propain heater

All I know is that if I ever become a professional wrastler or just need a badass nickname I'm going with Rich "ProPAIN" Allen.

Quote from: rangerbrown on October 19, 2006, 08:42:27 PM
wd-40 isnt as cunbustable as every one thinks.  cool stuff

no but it makes a pretty good bee killer, (combine stream of wd, and a flame)

I prefer chemtool.  Don't even need the lighter.  Chemtool will kill anything...plants...bugs...small mammals...bigger mammals...rotary engines...etc...

Cool rig... I could never build that.. I like the Frankenstein bolt in the front panel. nice.

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on October 20, 2006, 01:11:33 AM

Quote from: rangerbrown on October 19, 2006, 08:42:27 PM
wd-40 isnt as cunbustable as every one thinks.  cool stuff

no but it makes a pretty good bee killer, (combine stream of wd, and a flame)

1.  I've never gotten WD-40 to ignite.
2.  Why are you killing bees?

I did the bolt thing so I would have to wear a glove to open it when it's hot.  I screw the bolt in slightly, open her up, close her, take the bolt out.

TROGDOR!!![/color]
Burninating the countryside
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the peoples
In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!
THATCHED-ROOF COTTAGES!
TROGDOR!!![/color]

Oh, and I thought that was pretty cool.  I would love to have a shop so I could build cool stuff.  I have conflicting interests.  I like living in the city because of the convenience, but damn I'd love to have a house with a shop and acreage so nobody would complain.  You can't get that in the city.