Wood stove install

[DeepCMark58A]

Don't burn oil it's filthy and dangerous if you do not do it properly

 

[Jeff J]

I have been kicking around the idea of a waste oil stove for my shop. I found some plans online for converting a hot water heater. Waste oil is a pain to get rid of legally so it makes sense to get rid of it while getting some use out of it.

I was giving it to a guy with a commercial waste oil furnace but lost that option when we moved.

 

[flashback]

I have been kicking around the idea of a waste oil stove for my shop. I found some plans online for converting a hot water heater. Waste oil is a pain to get rid of legally so it makes sense to get rid of it while getting some use out of it.

I was giving it to a guy with a commercial waste oil furnace but lost that option when we moved.

Our trash transfer station has a waste oil tank, yours may have one as well.

 

[tphoyt]

Most auto parts stores will take it if you buy the oil from them and return it to them in the original containers.

 

[redneck joe]

my boat oil i take to where i get my oil changed. When we had the big boat, the marina let everyone use their tank.


Back to my project, stove got delivered today. Will be very cosy in there when I get installed.

 

[Mc Tool]

I put mine ( and anyone else's who I change their oil ) into a 44 gallon steel drum ...I have nearly filled 2 . I strain it thru a sieve because the intention was always to burn it . Couple of years ago I gave a whole drum to a niebough ....who , to my mind waisted it ( if you can waist waist oil ) ....he just tipped it into the ash try of is log burner and let her rip . quite spectacular ,the whole burner glowed twinkling red hot ,the flue actually started collapsing under its own weight ( later attached to the roof ) and there was 2 feet of flame coming out the top ....after the cap burnt/melted off ....I could see it from my house , but 44 gallons ( proper big gallons ....not them piddly wee US jobs ) lasted him a bit over a week........so he aint gettin any more