I'm thinking about getting a small wood burner stove to stick one in. Would be cool use of it IMO.

 

I thought about doing a used oil set up to get rid of my waste But I was told by a transmission shop in town that uses one that I might have a hard time getting enough oil to keep it running ..
He didn't figure I could produce enough waste myself and can't get it from local garage's anymore because they must have a contract with a removal company for legal and environmental reasons.... The last straw was my insurance would have none of it.

I ended up using a free 70,000 btu oil furnace and run colored diesel .. With the door up and down all day and melting off vehicles at night to work on the next day I'm only burning about a gallon a day when it's at it's worst ( 26x36 shop ) . I keep it at 55-60 degrees when working and then turn it up when painting.. Biggest expense was the used Selkirk chimney and that was only 100 bucks. I use my shop 10 hours +/- a day , 7 days a week and found this to be affordable and consistent way to stay warm .. I just have to remember to turn it right down at night after having a few beers with the lads or I'm just throwing money up the pipe for no reason.
Just my 0.02

 

I literally have that exact same heater. Problem is, My garage is not drywalled and insulated like yours, and it's 24'x30' with brick block walls. My heater will heat up an area of my garage now, but it won't heat the entire space.

 

I aint skeered!!!

 

I use one like that in my shop except it is 375,000 btu's and can empty a 100lb tank in 12 hours

 

I have a client who uses a huge waste oil heater to keep his shop toasty. Nice part is he doesn fleet services on Semi's so he has all the waste oil he could want!

I'll ask him how he did his setup and get back to you guys

 

Hell yeah! Thanks!

 

DO NOT WANT!

 

hey been busy man but i got that burner shipped out tonight

 

I looked into this a while back. The easiest setup was to modify a burner from a fuel oil furnace. The main problem was the oil is to thick when cold to create a fine mist, so the oil container needed to be heated to thin it down. Some setups had the entire oil reservoir heated and or use a pre heater in the burner. I didn't want to burn my garage down so I decided just use a old fuel oil furnace and not mess w/ the used oil. They are usually cheap, mine was free. Fuel oil burns hot so it heats quick. Not too bad on fuel so far. Its nice that you can get 5 gal or whatever you need at a time. I also heard the they will burn used oil if you mix it like 50/50 with fuel oil to thin it out, but haven't got that desperate yet.

 

I just throw old newspapers and various scrap wood that I collect into a bucket with my waste oil in it. Newspapers soak up the oil and they burn VERY hot and twice as long compared to fire wood alone. Although this doesn't smell the best and some very black smoke pours out of my stack.

 

Just noticed this thread. Are you talking about a waste oil stove like this one lol ????? If so...... the thing works pretty good. Cheap to build. A couple words of advice though..... 1- filter your used oil. Burns better. 2- I wouldn't leave it unattended. I light mine when I go out to the garage. As it warms up your storage tank it thins the oil, thus it start flowing easier, and speeds everything up through the tube. IE: more fire. 3- some say you don't need the damper in the exhaust but put on in !!! Makes it easier to control the heat. I have seen 970* right at the "fire ring"(hottest area, about a foot up the tank right where the fire is inside), but mine seems to "like" to run right around 525-575*. It will heat my 20x30 to t-shirt nice in 30-45 minutes, and it uses 1/2 to 3/4 of a quart and hour.

Personally I like mine. Now that I have played with it for awhile I am getting happy and more comfortable with it. And the way I look at it, every oil change is about 6 hours of free heat in the shop. And between 3 boys all driving, my wifes car, my diesel, and my work car, I got loads of stickin it to the man heat HAHA.

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we went the cheap way a couple of years ago and hit up the metal recyclers for some sheer=offs 18" x 7' longs 1/4" thick steel. bought 2 pieces and built our own wood stove. lined it with fire brick and stoke it with cut up pallets. anyone whos been to our shop when it runs knows it works great, when we go to start it up we will throw an occasional oily rag in there to get it going.....

 

Any pics? Been thinking of doing the same.

 

You can use 1/8'', 3/16, or 1/4 to make a stove. Depends on how much and how long you want it to last. Came across this little stove the other day as I am planing on making a few as projects, might be what your looking for.
http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=8049

 

Cool design! Making me think about some propane tanks cut and welded up.