I have been fooling around with using oil as the fuel in my foundry
furnace. Some of you may remember my experiments using a small paint gun
as a burner for diesel fuel. A kind gent wrote to me and offered me a
Becket gun style furnace burner for HHO (home heating oil). I am burning
diesel fuel in it to start, just because I had some from an old fuel tank
and it looks too nasty to put back in my truck. I got it going (needed a
new nozzle) and melted some aluminum with it. It sure is nice to be able
to just plug it in and it lights. And hot...ooh MAMA! I hope to convert it
to WMO (waste motor oil), but it does real well as is. Lots of pictures
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Melting aluminum with diesel fuel
The beginnings of a waste oil foundry Unaltered Becket home heating burner
as a foundry furnace burner

Thanks,

Ron Thompson
On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space
Center, USA

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