Re: Workshop heater

Posted by NCWayne on October 15, 2011 at 20:01:32 from (69.40.232.132):

In Reply to: Workshop heater posted by bill from scotland on October 15, 2011 at 15:09:23:

Take it from the voice of experience, unless you built your firebox out of a minimum of 3/8 plate DO NOT design it for a drip oil setup. Do a search for my name and read a couple of my posts from last winter about my modification of my wood stove to version of the drip oil setup copied from the Mother Earth News website. Long story short....My stove is about 30 inches square and built of 3/8 plate, and the bottom is lined with fire brick. The burner chamber is a piece of 6" ID stainless pipe welded a piece of 3/8 stainless plate. Inside of it I've got another piece of stainless plate standing on legs about 1 inch long as a 'burner plate' for the oil to drip on. The oil enters the burner chamber through a copper tube run inside a piece of 2" OD stainles pipe that also provides a forced draft siphoned off the blower chamber that supplies air to the 'heat tubes' I put through the stove.

If I maintain a 'normal' drip rate the burner chamber will get in excess of 850 degrees (the max my infrared thermometer will read), and maintain a skin temp on the stove of nearly 650 degrees. Remember this is approx a 30x30x30 stove, out of 3/8 plate, with just a 6 inch chamber setting in the middle of it. I've only got a 1 gallon tank supplying the oil to the stove so the burner chamber has the capability to fill completely up and not overflow burning oil into the shop...THANKFULLY.....The first time it happened the oil 'turned to water' and it got a bit scary. The second time it happened it got so hot it warped the door of the stove.

Like I said you can read a bit more of the story by looking back at my post from last winter but again, a warning, DO NOT build an oil drip stove unless it's literally build like a tank and even then DO NOT leave it burning when your not physically present.

Beyond that one like mine will EASILY heat a 30x40 uninsulated shop with a 10 foot ceiling to 70 degrees plus on a 35 degree day...............but I'm looking at trying something a bit safer this winter because the 'reward' just isn't worth the risk.........

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