Anyone got one?

Used one?

Or set one up?

Its an option for heating my new unit I am considering but it looks like they need to be licenced etc....

Alex

 

my mates got one in his garage,we put a bit a red diesel in it to start it off first thing then it goes all day on old oil,its great,you do have to have licence ill ask him how much it is i dont think its a lot

 

You have to enquire at local council some areas have different allowances on how much oil you can burn and environmental reasons pay tax on it. Beware business insurance and rates is affected too you need to balance costs vs cost savings using oil burners. Propane is too expensive and we have those heat lights you find outside pubs most cost effective with min risk... well gives me excuse to headbutt the wall sometimes lol

 

if your local authoritys allow, or in my opinion, if you have enough sense to set it up properly, you can make a waste oil burner that burns with no smoke at all, once the oil is heated to 170f it will burn as clean as diesel well at least to the human eye!! an if you want to burn waste veg oil just up the temp to 200f, so good luck,

 

cant legally use them up my way doesnt stop me tho! remember its on illegal if you get caught!

 

I have one its a thermobile,the one with the fan on top which blows the heat out,superb bit of kit,heats my workshop up a treat,I have to collect waste oil from my local garage thats the only problem
I think i paid about Ł300 for it off flee bay ages ago,its was a gift at the time as in the winter the prices double

 

we've made them before out of old 56kg propane bottles, you need a flap in the top and bottom with a grate inbetween in the bottle, obviously a chimney on top and a resevoir thats a few feet away from the fire with a regulator tap and a good heavy duty tube, we had the tube going into the chimney just dripping on the fire with gravity, we had the bottle glowing red a few times lol

 

Ive just put my old one on Ebay.

It burns 1.5l per hour and keeps my 150sq/m workshop 20deg above ambiant.

 

Had one of these in my old workplace, It was about 5.5ft tall, excellent bit of kit just a bit of tissue/diesel in the morning and it will burn oil all day without fuss, keeps you warm aswell.

result.

 

could it cope with 255 sq/m ??



James - thats exactly the thing I am after!

 

bump...curious about these things.

What is required in terms of oil supply to them ? external tank or what ?

And do they remain lit all the time, or how quick do they light up and start heating ?

Only for occasional use in the garage.

 

we use thermobile one it has its own tank built in takes about ten minutes to heat up uses a couple of gallons of oil a day and heats our two ramp workshop up enough to work in t shirts even in this weather