The bucket should be higher than where the copper tubing that drips the oil will be located which causes gravity to push the oil down the tubing into the furnace.
Convert wood stove to waste oil burner.
But heres the important part oil burners are very thermostat friendly.
Adjust as needed and keep adding wood as needed.
Some how to s on waste oil heater design.
Third is to burn the waste oil in a modified oil burner this is the way commercial units do it.
How i burn old waste oil in my wood burner.
Nov 16 2017 how i burn old waste oil in my wood burner.
I really f the arabs with the rocket stove by burning wood motor oil grease plastic without smoke or even odor for.
Tools i work with.
Small wood burner stove with waste oil heats about 2 story tall 10 car building i geuss.
There is no precise height requirement it simply needs to be higher than the stove.
Place a 5 gallon bucket on a stand about 2 feet away from your wood stove.
Anyway i ran into some waste oil burners that now bolt to your existing furnace some are kits that you convert your own 2 heating oil gun over to waste oil or buy a real good clean burn system for 1 500 to 2 000.
There s also allusions to individuals having accomplished this but details on exactly how either the commercial or home spun conversions work are very thin.
Get hot fire going drip slow.
Materials list an old or new wood stove.
Can with oil copper tube valve to adjust flow and shut it off copper tube running to center of wood stove through top centered over fire.
I recommend using an air tight stove with a secondary burn a 2 piece of 1 5 black iron pipe if you don t have a welder then one end of that pipe will need to be threaded and a black iron 45 will need to be used with a short 1 5 black iron nipple.