This is like a tractor my dad had, you started it on gas then once it warmed up switched to diesel. I have burned a mix of fuel oil and waste oil in a furnace before and it worked fine. Like you said filter the crap out of it first.
You explained your process pretty well-there is a method to your madness.I see a lot of guys trying to burn waste oil for heating their shop without using a clean diesel mix,and it looks like it take a lot of fine tuning.What temp do you keep your shop at?
+Mr Frog Thanks. I don't keep the shop heated at all times , only when I am working in it. That might be a possibility if I ever get around to insulating every thing so it holds the heat in better.
That's pretty much how we do it up here too.Turn on the heat,go in the house and come back when it's warmed up.In every garage we insulated, it made a HUGE difference in furnace cycle times and fuel use.
Sir: Great vid and thanks much. I have an old mobile home style 65K BTU hot air Beckett furnace in my building that works perfectly and I installed a new transformer, ignition sticks, and nozzle last winter. I have approx 10 gallons of super clean waste oil I'd like to burn thru the furnace, mixed with either kerosene or home heating oil. What is the recommended mixture you use for blending the waste oil with heating oil to make this work. I'm thinking maybe 50/50 mix but curious your thoughts. Thanks much.
Since this video was made, I have bought a new fuel oil furnace. Because my old furnace's heat ex-changer finally rusted away. i now mix 1/2 gallon of strained waste oil, to 4 1/2 gallons on fuel oil, or diesel. if you mix it too heavy with the waste oil, it will smoke on the start up when the heat chamber gets too cool. My mixed fuel is now in a 5 gallon bucket, and my big tank is straight fuel oil.
@@Dragracer64 Got it and thanks much for the info. My furnace is approx 40 years old or a bit more and fortunately the burner heat chamber is still in good shape. Just a tad of surface rust that I had cleaned off and treated years ago and inside still seems fine. Thanks for the tip. Happy Thanksgiving.
i have a 500 gallon tank, it has 100 gallons of diesel fuel and the other 400 gallons is USED CAR OIL. no i don't burn it straight, like this guy is doing, you have to add something flammable to it, so it will help thin it out and bring the flash point up some, so the the furnace will ignite, straight used car oil will not work!!!!, I MIX ONE GALLON OF GAS TO FIVE GALLONS OF USED CAR OIL, and mix it, the furnace will ignite it with no problem, yes the oil will go to the bottom and the gas tends to seperate from the oil, you have to stir the tank once while, i stir my tank twice a day and bingo, no problem. I am using a WAYNE OIL BURNER M-SR standard oil burner and it has no problem burning waste motor oil.
