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 #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:


Here is the atomizer:


Here is the flame keeper. It needs lots more holes:


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.

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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.