waste oil burn

[mr.mindless]

The way the “real” furnace is set up is that it’s got 15psi to atomize the oil and a cage blower to give it a lean burn environment.

Fwiw

[luvmyxj]

Cool design this guy came up with
https://youtu.be/9mHNLWGjVRk

[M4wdFab]

watched that before actually, ya. 

his burn is pretty poor- orange flame with black tips, not very efficient.

but free heat is free heat. 

[M4wdFab]

this thing was giving me fits today.  Must have spent 2hours with it throughout the day after a fresh clean out this morning.  my hose bib lost 80% of its uniformity and randomly chokes off flow or goes wild.  have no idea whats up.  disassembled the valve and cleaned it no change. 


still running the quiet blow up pump thats not quiet up to par, but new one should be here any day now to really rip. 

[mr.mindless]

You have a needle valve in play as well? Or just direct from hose bib? I don’t remember.

[M4wdFab]

1/2" hose bib has worked great for 2 years.  im wondering if the rubber seat is finally chewing away from oil/solvent. cant think of any other thing that would make it so random all of the sudden.    i have another one i am going to try today later. 

[mr.mindless]

That was my first thought. Rubber seal failing.

I was gonna stop by later today but didn’t finish my waste oil pickup. Have to go back through fairport. I’m glad the “250 gallons” I’m grabbing is more like 100.

I need a better pumping setup. The 120v centrifugal pump I’m using is tired and needs a shaft seal. I’m outputting via garden hose now, need something larger.

[TrailTamer]

That was my first thought. Rubber seal failing.

I was gonna stop by later today but didn’t finish my waste oil pickup. Have to go back through fairport. I’m glad the “250 gallons” I’m grabbing is more like 100.

I need a better pumping setup. The 120v centrifugal pump I’m using is tired and needs a shaft seal. I’m outputting via garden hose now, need something larger.

You saw how fast my gas pump move oil. ~5 minutes to pump a full 275 gal tote. I spend more time setting it up than pumping. Lol. I neck down my pump’s inlet & outlet to 1.5” NPT, to use the much cheaper suction hose and to fit through barrels’ 2” hole. I use suction hose on discharge side, to flow better and won’t get punctured & leak as easy. I put locking cam lock couplers on the pump & hoses/valves, make it much easier.

https://www.harborfreight.com/2-in-212cc-gasoline-engine-semi-trash-water-pump-158-gpm-63405.html

I can loan out the pump, hoses, pick up tubes, valves and fittings if you’d like. They just sit in corner of my shed.

[mr.mindless]

Definitely will keep that in mind for next time.

I have a bunch of that cam lock stuff on a shopping list, would be awfully nice upgrade but at $7-9 each it adds up real fast.

[M4wdFab]

changed to a new 3/4" hose bib and still same fits with it all day every 5 minutes. 

too much going on dont have time to really play with it.  but its beyond annoying such a drastic change in performance.  it was awesome for along time.  planing to do a deep dive on it when the new blower comes in

bah

[mr.mindless]

Crap in bottom of bucket plugging intermittently? Or some in tubing run somewhere?

[M4wdFab]

bucket cleaned out weekly (i did it 3 times in the last 2 days, not the issue)

problem before funnel/tube. 



im almost starting to convince my self its a viscosity issue with the WMO not mixing with the solvent im trying to burn.  like its settling out over time and thinner stuff is flowing all of the sudden.  i might try switching back to 100% WMO tomorrow to see if that is different. 

[M4wdFab]

changed out to a 1/2" ball valve lol    has been working ok.


im down to about 5 gals of WMO and i have 2 drums of solvent left.  hoping to make it a few more days/weeks but its Fing cold lol

[rejeep]

if you need more I can give you the names a few shops that don't burn.. they might be willing to have you come collect?

[mr.mindless]

could be a good list for both of us. the Fairport shop I just collected from said they now need to pay to dispose of the oil. used to sell it instead of have to pay not long ago.

I need to find an inspection place down here, figure I should ask about that too when I do. have an april reg renewal that's blocked so I guess it's time.