Convert Fuel Oil Furnace To Waste Oil

Ok this is my 1st youtube post.

Convert fuel oil furnace to waste oil.

It is not a good idea to put used motor oil in you home heating oil. These burners are designed around a cnc machined aluminum preheater block. Converting a home heating oil furnace to burn waste motor oil waste vegetable oil biodiesel. Fuel oil i believe is more like kerosene than motor oil.

The waste oil heater in our truck shop 350 000btu reznor does not share that much in common with a regular oil burner. Parts tools needed with a full explanation demonstration for a diy project. This website is dedicated to helping people convert their own beckett burners to waste oil burners capable of burning anything from heating oil to vegetable oil. Not to the furnace but to the fuel.

It ll easily clog the filter. You need a special waste oil burner to burn waste oil. These impurities are filtered off in a waste oil burner but in a fuel oil burner they would be trapped in the sprayer or released into the air. It takes compressed air to make the thicker oil atomize properly and it has several more safety and limit switches than a fuel oil unit.

Fuel oil is the same as diesel fluid. It s totally different type of furnace then you home heating system burner. How i burn waste oil in my fuel oil furnace. If i m going to have any chance of pulling this off cheaply easily i ll have to get the waste oil s viscosity to match that of the furnace oil.

If you were to heat waste oil in a standard burner the impurities in the oil would clog the sprayer. This is a standard home heating furnace that i burn used engine oil in with a small mod. You will find parts for sale as well as information on burner construction and diagnosis. And experimenting with different fuels.

Waste oil burner in wood stove using home heating oil burner from a furnace.