Re: shop heat

Posted by 87nassaublue on February 09, 2010 at 16:47:09 from (72.15.97.115):

In Reply to: shop heat posted by Rick Kr on February 09, 2010 at 09:24:03:

Hey guys let me share a heater idea I saw some old country mechanics come up with about 20 years ago. I told a friend about this setup who has a big welding shop and years later when my dad visited him he had built one based on the story I told him.

I went in this shop about 20 years ago to ask about an old vintage truck I saw on the yard. There was this heater throwing out lots of heat and just cooking away. The firebox was the inside of an old wood burning heater. There was a 35 gallon drum on a stand at a higher level than the top of the heater. Out of the drum was a copper line with a wheel valve on it, that ran into the top of the old heater insert. I looked inside the heater and the line was dripping oil (which was gravity fed)a drip about every two or three seconds and hitting the bottom of the heater. The oil was burning on the bottom of the heater floor. That was the only fuel. (used motor oil)

These guys were putting old burned motor oil in the drum and what ever other oil they drained out of trucks when they were serviced and using that oil to heat their shop. It would run all day that way unattended.

There was little smoke out the stack because it burned very hot. They said to get it started in the morning, they would build a small fire with wood and then start the oil and let it run. It was a great working setup, cheap and dirty and reliable.

I thought it was funny when my dad was describing that our friend's setup to me and I told him that I had described that design to him years before. He made his own heater based on my verbal description only .

Everyone has old motor oil to get rid of and if you got a little time, you can put this rig together out of scrap parts and run it for about free.

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