I think I'm going to make a "thing".
I don't like having to haul used motor oil to the dump, so I usually dump it in the burn barrel. I just splash it in from a 5 gallon bucket while the fires hot. Works fine, but it's messy.
What I'm thinking about doing is making some sort of oil injection "thing" to spray hot oil into the fire. Right now, the plan is to get something like a pressure cooker, add a 1/4" air fitting to the lid (and a safety valve so I can't overpressurize it), and somewhere near the bottom of the pressure cooker I'd add a ball valve and a 1/4" steel line going to the burn barrel. Not sure what type of nozzle I'd use.... the oil is going to get injected about half way up the burn barrel and I have a blower plumbed in at the very bottom of the burn barrel. I think I'm going to add a second blower on the other side of the barrel.
If it works like I want, I'm going to move it over from the burn barrel to the firebox on a kiln/oven I'm making for pottery and for pre/post heat on large parts (like anvils) for welding.
Edit: I'll post pictures of the kiln thing when I get farther along. It's something I started on a few years ago and never got to finish.
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I don't like having to haul used motor oil to the dump, so I usually dump it in the burn barrel. I just splash it in from a 5 gallon bucket while the fires hot. Works fine, but it's messy.
What I'm thinking about doing is making some sort of oil injection "thing" to spray hot oil into the fire. Right now, the plan is to get something like a pressure cooker, add a 1/4" air fitting to the lid (and a safety valve so I can't overpressurize it), and somewhere near the bottom of the pressure cooker I'd add a ball valve and a 1/4" steel line going to the burn barrel. Not sure what type of nozzle I'd use.... the oil is going to get injected about half way up the burn barrel and I have a blower plumbed in at the very bottom of the burn barrel. I think I'm going to add a second blower on the other side of the barrel.
If it works like I want, I'm going to move it over from the burn barrel to the firebox on a kiln/oven I'm making for pottery and for pre/post heat on large parts (like anvils) for welding.
Edit: I'll post pictures of the kiln thing when I get farther along. It's something I started on a few years ago and never got to finish.
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