Maybe someone should tell my local body shop. Well they have stopped
using used motor oil for supplemental heating. They use it for all
their heating. Their tip for me was turn off the heat in the storage
tank during the summer. They forgot and it turned some oil into coke.

Dan


Diamond Jim wrote:

Well you don't just burn used motor oil in a furnace without
treating/filtering it anyway. At least you don't if you know what's good for
you. Used motor oil is contaminated with all sorts of things, cadmium for
example (from bearings) which is bad for you when you get it into your
system. (This is why garages/service stations stopped burning motor oil for
supplemental heating. There used to be quite a market for stoves to burn
used motor oil.)

In article .com,
says...

Maybe someone should tell my local body shop. Well they have stopped
using used motor oil for supplemental heating. They use it for all
their heating. Their tip for me was turn off the heat in the storage
tank during the summer. They forgot and it turned some oil into coke.

LOL. The gas station across the street was using a waste oil heater
for a while. I went over there one night because the haze inside
the building was *intense*. The two young guys working inside
were just about keeled over from the fumes.

The new owner said that it never did work right, so they took the
waste oil heater out.

Jim


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On 19 Oct 2005 20:14:16 -0700, jim rozen
wrote:

In article .com,
says...

Maybe someone should tell my local body shop. Well they have stopped
using used motor oil for supplemental heating. They use it for all
their heating. Their tip for me was turn off the heat in the storage
tank during the summer. They forgot and it turned some oil into coke.

LOL. The gas station across the street was using a waste oil heater
for a while. I went over there one night because the haze inside
the building was *intense*. The two young guys working inside
were just about keeled over from the fumes.

The new owner said that it never did work right, so they took the
waste oil heater out.

If thy can't get the flue to draw on a waste oil heater, I would be
rather leery about having them fix my car. Heat rises, and cool air
follows it in the draft diverter. If the heat isn't rising, either
the flue or the fresh makeup air is restricted.

Though the 'drip' style waste oil burners seem rather hit-and-miss
to me - gas stations have compressed air, so a Babbington style oil
burner should be trivial to kit-bash.

-- Bruce --

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In article , Bruce L. Bergman
says...

If thy can't get the flue to draw on a waste oil heater, I would be
rather leery about having them fix my car. Heat rises, and cool air
follows it in the draft diverter. If the heat isn't rising, either
the flue or the fresh makeup air is restricted.

LOL. These were the kids who worked there during the day, but they
were allowed to stay on at night and work on their own cars. I
made sure the owner worked on my car. That was a long time ago,
and the proprietor is long gone. He was the last local guy I would
trust to work on a car or truck of mine, so for the time being
I'm doing all my own work now.

Though the 'drip' style waste oil burners seem rather hit-and-miss
to me - gas stations have compressed air, so a Babbington style oil
burner should be trivial to kit-bash.

Apparently not, at least for them. This was the type fed with
compressed air.

Jim


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