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1. waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: "Rex Burkheimer" <rex@wmautomotive.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:58:11 -0500; Inch's comment stirred a matter of interest to me: Waste-oil heaters. In my shop I have a wood-burning heater made from a 55-gallon drum. It does the job just fine, and lets me get rid of burnable pa; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00090.html (8,202 bytes)
2. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: Drew Rogge <drew@pixar.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:56:56 -0700; There was a BIG thread on waste oil burners over on rec.crafts.metalworking last week. Not sure how much of it was off topic but you might want to take a look at it. Deja News (www.deja.com/usenet) s; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00092.html (8,938 bytes)
3. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: bownes <bownes@web9.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:11:44 -0400 (EDT); Lan-Air makes a nice unit. And they have been known to discount them rather well. I looked into a group buy a couple of years ago. Looked like we could get about 25-30% discount on the $1200 unit. ii; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00094.html (8,757 bytes)
4. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:26:13 -0700; I've been wondering- with these units, what happens to the nasties that're in the used oil? Metals, sludge and toxins. Where do they go when you use the oil for heat? Up the stack and into the atmosp; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00096.html (8,041 bytes)
5. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: epetrevich@relavis.com; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:34:52 -0400; Also, does anyone know if it's OK to put small amounts of waste oil in standard "oil fired furnace" (home heating oil/ diesel fuel)? Thanks? Inch mailto:epetrevich@relavis.com "Rex Burkheimer" <rex@w; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00097.html (9,943 bytes)
6. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: bownes <bownes@web9.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:43:32 -0400 (EDT); They all end up in a pan in the bottom of the unit. Up to you to dispose of in an environmentally correct fash; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00098.html (8,362 bytes)
7. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:48:56 -0700; Would ordinary oil recyclers take the stuff, since you've burned up the good parts and left them the bad parts? Of course you could just pour it into a gallon of regular used oil and take it to the r; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00099.html (9,219 bytes)
8. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: bownes <bownes@web9.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:54:50 -0400 (EDT); First off, it is a black, crusty ash. You could mix it up that way, or put it in a container and take it to the dump on toxic waste day. Don't know what the manufacturer suggests. iii; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00100.html (9,845 bytes)
9. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: "Rex Burkheimer" <rex@wmautomotive.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:26:42 -0500; At $1200 that's too steep for this project. If I can buy one for ~@200, I won't try to make one. Or maybe I would anyway, just because it's my nature ;) Rex Burkheimer Marketing Director, WM Automoti; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00101.html (9,769 bytes)
10. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: Randall Young <randallyoung@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:42:15 -0700; IMO it depends on the type of burner your furnace has. If it's the modern "spray nozzle" type, I wouldn't risk getting foreign matter into the fuel for fear of clogging the nozzle (think auto fuel i; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00102.html (8,016 bytes)
11. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: "Rex Burkheimer" <rex@wmautomotive.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:49:02 -0500; To expand on my earlier question. Years ago a standard fixture in auto repair shops was the waste-oil heater. It consisted of about 6 six-ft sections of sheet-metal stove pipe, joined by U-bends so t; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00103.html (10,305 bytes)
12. Re: waste-oil heaters? (score: 1): Author: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:56:09 -0500; Waste-oil heaters seemed like way too much trouble to me. I bought an Empire through-the-wall natural-gas unit. Cost about 600 bucks, but it's costing very little to run, it is very clean, there is n; /html/shop-talk/2000-10/msg00108.html (8,378 bytes)

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