[AT] Waste oil burner

[Steve W.]

The old waste Oil burner I had was a home built rig. It had a nice 
prefilter set-up on it that got most of the crud out of the oil before 
it hit the main storage tank. I used two toilet paper canister style 
filters attached to the bottom of the incoming tank and let gravity pull 
the oil through the filters. I also used to dump old diesel in there to 
thin out the gear oils and such. I also know of one gent who uses a REAL 
low tech system. He has two 55 gallon drums. One is the filtered oil and 
the other is the raw oil. They are welded together with one almost above 
the other. Then he draped three cotton ropes between them and lets 
capillary action do the work.

Larry D Goss wrote:
> I probably shouldn't join in this thread, but I'm a little surprised that 
> you guys don't realize what a low temperature it takes to get engine oil to 
> crystallize.  Ol' Rog probably has the best solution to the problem -- pull 
> it apart every week or so and clean out the tube.  Those of us who have had 
> to deal with oil leaks ON the heads of air-cooled engines know first-hand 
> that the hard carbon build-up doesn't take long to form on the cooling fins 
> and can cause major problems if left unchecked.  Andy, the Case/IH 
> dealership up in Poseyville had a waste oil burner in their old shop.  It 
> was a commercial unit with pumps, atomizers, and the whole nine yards.  They 
> were forever fussing with it to clean out the carbon build-up.  Engine oil 
> doesn't have to get to combustion temperature before it starts reacting 
> chemically.  I've seen carbon build-up on the outside of an engine that was 
> a lot harder than the black greasy build-up that you typically get on the 
> top of a piston in an engine with a bad oil ring.  More power to you in 
> looking for a solution to the problem, but it's a little like trying to 
> invent a machine for perpetual motion.  The fact that the tube is inside the 
> fire chamber means it's going to be hot enough to have problems, and fuel 
> oil doesn't have the same characteristics as waste engine oil.
> 
> BTW, Andy, I'm hoping to bring a whole stable of tractors to the SIAM show 
> in June -- five or six -- and some of my collector friends from the 
> southeast may show up with theirs as well -- Georgia, the Carolina's...
> 
> Larry
> 

-- 
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

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