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good firing with veg oil last night....

updated sun 13 nov 05

 

Paul B on wed 9 nov 05


i put my waste oil burners to the real test last night and from what i can
see looking into all the spyholes everything came out the same as normal
including copper reds.
I am still staying low key about the whole thing because i thought of one
last modification to the system which will greatly improve it, this i will
have done by next week, then i will start posting pictures and details on
my website which will go online soon.
The only unexpected thing that happened was that the burners took a lot
longer to reach temp than i thought and i got off to a late start that day,
so at 2 am i realized it would take several more hours so i made the
decision to hook my LP burners back up for the last couple hours, as i
really could not afford to underfire a load this time of year. But i can
easily get the burners to fire faster if need be, that is part of the mod i
will be doing soon to the system, then it will be an excellent system and
built largely from scavenged materials with only a few select off-the-shelf
items. My system for collecting and filter vegoil is practically automated
as well. I will generally blend in about 10-20% used motor oil and ATF as
well, as i have some small sources for that stuff. But mostly veg oil.
On the whole, the burners are very efficient, no smoke or anything. More
details soon...
Paul

Donna Kat on mon 14 nov 05


Really cool (or hot?) - I am so looking forward to hearing more of this!
Donna

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:45:38 -0500, Paul B wrote:

>i put my waste oil burners to the real test last night and from what i can
>see looking into all the spyholes everything came out the same as normal
>including copper reds.
.....
>On the whole, the burners are very efficient, no smoke or anything. More
>details soon...
>Paul
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