Babington Waste Oil heater

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Chrismac turned me on to this, and I hope to have a working unit up tomorrow:
[video:njroza6h]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BUm2BK3-qw[/video:njroza6h]

The only thing keeping me from firing it up is a few drill bits and a tap for 1/4" pipe. That will be remedied tomorrow. I also need to get some 2" pipe threaded at one end. I have the steel barrels and have a 2 barrel stove kit on order. It should be in next week. I had a bunch of #77 drill bits. Only broke 4 drilling the cap :roll: #80 is .013", #77 is .018". I think that is close enough.

These things burn any sort of oil cleanly and they don't clog. The oil only needs to be clean enough to pump. Pretty amazing.

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I would love to see pics of the finished project that is pretty cool.

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I will cerainly post them. I'm hoping for ignition today.

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I am real curious as to how much air/electricity it take to keep this running. I can find a lot of used oil.

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Got it fired up. I need to tune the oil delivery system, but the sucker work! My son says it looks like a flame thrower.

Here is the basic unit:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/stuff/bab1.jpg

Here is the atomizer:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/stuff/bab2.jpg

Here is the flame keeper. It needs lots more holes:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/badflash/stuff/bab4.jpg

If you had an efficient air compressor, it wouldn't take much to keep it going. I'm thinking an air brush compressor would work fine. All the air it needs goes through a .018" hole. The rest gets induced by the flame.

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Air flow should be about .2 CFM @ 30 PSIG. Now I need to find a good cheap quite air compressor. The ones I have are power hogs and wake the dead. Suggestions welcome. I'm looking at air brush compressors, but I don't think they are continuous duty.

[gosmith]

Badflash,

I have an old Badger airbrush compressor that's very quiet. It produces 0.9 CFM @116 PSI on a 1/3 HP motor, according to the manufacturer. They have smaller models and you can maybe get a good deal on ebay. I've had this one for over 20 years with zero problems.

G

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I just got a tip to use a refriderant compressor from an old fridge or AC unit. I'll give that a shot as I have several of those salvaged from various mishaps.