It's absolutely freezing here and my workshop needs some heat so after a bit of research on the net and a few prototypes heres the oil burner I'm making for my workshop.
I've tried the drip feed types and just cant seem to get it right, they're too fussy and hard to get burning really hot but with no smoke, thats why I tried the Babington type.
First I made the burner, 2mm sheet folded into a box 100x75x100 high, the round tube on the front is 90mm diameter, 70mm long,not long enough it seems after the test fire, will add 50mm to it tomorrow. Bottom is 2mm folded so it is dished with a hole for the overflow oil to drain back to the tank, that's what the piece of 20mm box section sticking out from the bottom is for. The air fitting opposite the tube is centred with the tube and this is where the ball is fitted, in this case a 50mm brass doorknob from homebase.
This time I'm trying it with two .5mm holes drilled in the ball, done freehand with a dremel type thingy.
The big green tank is some of the remains from my recent disaster buying 3 phase transformers to scrap for copper (no matter what anyone tells you, even in a 1000kva transformer there's no more than 350kg of copper in one of these) at least it's come in useful. This is going to house the burner.
So far I just have the burner unit made and had to test it before I finished for the night, thats the pic with the big flame. It's about 4 foot long when it gets going. It's running at 40 psi.
I'll get more pics tomorrow and show how the oil is fed to it, this time I'm using a pump instead of gravity feed.
I've tried the drip feed types and just cant seem to get it right, they're too fussy and hard to get burning really hot but with no smoke, thats why I tried the Babington type.
First I made the burner, 2mm sheet folded into a box 100x75x100 high, the round tube on the front is 90mm diameter, 70mm long,not long enough it seems after the test fire, will add 50mm to it tomorrow. Bottom is 2mm folded so it is dished with a hole for the overflow oil to drain back to the tank, that's what the piece of 20mm box section sticking out from the bottom is for. The air fitting opposite the tube is centred with the tube and this is where the ball is fitted, in this case a 50mm brass doorknob from homebase.
This time I'm trying it with two .5mm holes drilled in the ball, done freehand with a dremel type thingy.
The big green tank is some of the remains from my recent disaster buying 3 phase transformers to scrap for copper (no matter what anyone tells you, even in a 1000kva transformer there's no more than 350kg of copper in one of these) at least it's come in useful. This is going to house the burner.
So far I just have the burner unit made and had to test it before I finished for the night, thats the pic with the big flame. It's about 4 foot long when it gets going. It's running at 40 psi.
I'll get more pics tomorrow and show how the oil is fed to it, this time I'm using a pump instead of gravity feed.
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