Waste oil space heater

[dracothered]

Ok, so I hate the cold garage and it is no fun to work in it with little to no heat. Last winter I had bought a propane heater that ate propane like crazy and didn't heat the garage well. I started this year with a couple old kerosene space heater that do a little better, but still not enough heat. After talking with a friend who uses waste oil to heat his big shop I have choose to build a drip waste oil heater based on the Ozzirt one.

Ozzirt Heater
Drip Feed Waste Oil Heater
Pan and Lid of the heater
Lighting the heater

Like I'm building
Ozzirt Type Waste Oil Burner Stove

Here is a mockup of mine.

I have a 11" pan at the bottom, a 12" Rotor on top of that, a 6" cylinder engine sleeve and a 20lb propane tank sitting on top.

 

[rburke65]

Re: Waist oil space heater

Looks like a great start. Any pictures of the garage......size......insulated....? I'm surprised you need any heat at all there....isn't it pretty warm there?

 

[dracothered]

Re: Waist oil space heater

Looks okie a great start. Any pictures of the garage......size......insulated....? I'm surprised you need any heat at all there....isn't it pretty warm there?

It is a two car sized garage with only a one car door, no insulation in most of the garage except one small area that use to be walled off into a small room (less than 1/4 of the garage). The garage is divided in half by a wall with a door in the middle of it. Yes it gets cold up here in Michigan and that is why I need heat in there....

 

[Buckgnarly]

Re: Waist oil space heater

Very interested, keep us posted. Watched that vid and the guy got 6 hrs from about 3 liters. I give away at least 50 gallons a year to my mechanic friend that has a real waste burner in his shop. I may just start keeping it after seeing this!

 

[Blazin8556]

Re: Waist oil space heater

i made the mother earth one. it scares the **** outta me when it gets going. sounds like a jet hovering over the shop and the outside starts glowing. it always gives a warning when its starting up good. the door on the fronts starts rattling.

 

[dracothered]

Re: Waist oil space heater

i made the mother earth one. it scares the **** outta me when it gets going. sounds like a jet hovering over the shop and the outside starts glowing. it always gives a warning when its starting up good. the door on the fronts starts rattling.

The Mother Earth one is a different design in how it works. Its intake of air comes down on the burn chamber where the design I am building ***** air in via holes in both burn chambers. The primary burn chamber is more O2 starved so it only gets hot enough to vaporize the oil into a gas. Then the gas flows up into the secondary burn chamber that has enough O2 introduced to burn the oil gas vapors fairly well and seems to burn them clean for the most part.

 

[shortymgee]

Re: Waist oil space heater

Interesting. Subscibed

 

[dracothered]

Re: Waist oil space heater

Ozzirt Heater drawings to give you an idea of what I am basing mine off of.

 

[dracothered]

No pictures today of the work I did on the heater, but I got some work done on it. I cut down the length of the secondary burn chamber plus I got one hole cut in the tank and in the lid (brake rotor) of the primary burn chamber.

 

[ruby76]

What is your current status on the ozzirt drip-style heater? I just got rid of 18 gallons of used motor oil that was sitting in a very cold shop. Im now planning on making one of these as well - so Im going to start accumulating parts.

 

[Randy in Maine]

Tell us what your fire insurance carrier said when you told them of your invention.

 

[James-W]

Tell us what your fire insurance carrier said when you told them of your invention.

That can certainly put a damper on things.

 

[Mallain]

I created one of these a few years ago from what I think we're the Mother Earth plans....

The biggest issue I had was that it was hard to control as it was gravity fed. On a cold day I would attempt to light it and it would take forever to get it going /oil flowing. I use to use a torch to warm the copper lines to help. Then when it was running and the temperature got warmer the oil would flow more and more so I would need to turn down the drip which of course caused the shop to cool down over time and the unit would eventually go out if left long enough.

I solved this by using a computer power supply, a wiper motor and a pump off an old furnace motor I had kicking around. When hooked up I now have 2 speeds to pump the oil and it pumps just the right amount to run.

With this setup I can leave the unit run and am comfortable doing so while being away for most of the day.

I'm still not sure I would leave it run all the time...I like to check it periodically and make sure everything is ok....I don't want any oil spills.

With this setup I heat a non-insulated shop (was an old school house converted to shop) with about 13'foot ceilings.

 

[rburke65]

Mallain...that's all very good info but we don't know what "comfortable" is and how much heat could you need in the area that you live?......oh wait.....NO ONE KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE!