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Central IL | Looking to add heat to our shop. What's the good and bad of a used oil heater? Thanks. |
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Dearfield Co. | some are like the space shuttle----------hard to keep going. Some have stink on start up or shut down . down by where I farm the county poisoned a bunch of their help with cyanide gas from burning synthetic. I know this has been a heavily debated subject about that but last I knew they were still paying for one guy. I sell my waste oil now for 25 cents a gallon and am very happy about the decision. |
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Eastern Ontario | Quality of the oil is of the essence. You don't want to have any water/coolant in there. Dirty oil will plug screens constantly. Having tanks outside in the cold brings problems as the oil gets thick and vacuum builds. Need to regularly clean the burn chamber as soot will line the vessel and efficiency goes out the door. It's cheap heat. But you need alot of oil. |
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Here | I have a auto repair shop that is 60x60 and the door opens about 25-30 times a day. Last winter (which was the coldest in a decade) we burned 1200 gal. of used oil. The tanks are inside and I drain the water from the bottom about once a mo. The best thing we could have done was sell our old POS (which was only 6 yrs. old) and buy a new Clean burn unit. I clean the camber and filter in tank in Jan. and will be good till spring. Our last unit we had to clean about once a mo. and still had problems. |
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Ne Iowa | +1 on the clean burn. |
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algona iowa | If you have plenty of oil you may as well use it for heat. We use 2000 gallon a year to heat a 80x100 shop there are many good brands out there we have had a energy lodgic for 10 years. We do clean the ash out every 3 weeks as I think we get better heat transfer on the exchanger and have the burner serviced once a year. |
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Eastern Arkansas | In have a harold electric freeburn and love it. It is a more do it yourself oil stove and you have to manually set the air and oil flow and manually get it started. You also have to clean the combustion chamber every few days. That being said it will burn anything ( I dump all my engine, hydraulic, gear oil, diesel in one tank and pull out of it) have never had any issues with water contamination and it gets very hot with no smoke. There is very little that can go wrong with it. It's also quite a bit cheaper than other stoves.
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Lincoln County. NC | VOLVO64 - 2/15/2015 13:47
Looking to add heat to our shop. What's the good and bad of a used oil heater? Thanks.
Lengthy discussion here: http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=527387&posts=1... Burn&highlightmode=1#M4310772 |
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SW WI Living the dream! 1 nightmare at a time | If you use enough oil with your equipment it is only way to go. But if you don't you will end up running here and there to pick up oil. From people that are willing to give it away but you don't know what is that oil. I have an Energy Logic in my 44x60 shop and just love it. Last year was COLD and I used about 700 gallons that is the most I have used in a winter yet. I have enough used oil from own equipment. We make sure not put any dirt or oil that may contain coolant in. I haven't had any issues with it. |
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SW OH | Very high maintenance, but if you have oil to burn, then it's cheap heat. All my experience is with Clean Burn. At work we have 3, 500,000 BTU models that never shut off if below 30 degrees outside. We burn around 12-15,000 gallons last 2 winters. One plus about them is if it is at all flammable, they will burn it. Water and anti-freeze are no problem if you set up tank to not draw off the bottom and a way to drain water off. Tank at work is a 20,000 gallon double wall that sits outside. The one here at the farm is inside and no difference there. The picture is of the one at work. Mitchco
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Renville County, MN | +1 on the Clean Burns, we have two of them and we are very careful with the oil that we put into the tank that he furnaces suck out of. If you do the maintenance on them as others have said and get your burners checked every year you will have very little problems. It takes a lot of oil. Unless you generate a lot of used oil they are great. Some people think they generate enough but they find out they don't. We run oil thru a window screen and then thru a 200 mesh sprayer strainer and then into the tank. I usually only have to clean the oil filters once a year doing it that way. |
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Leesburg, Ohio | +2 on the Clean Burn.
Son has one in his shop. Has it serviced once a year, no problems. 500 gallon tank outside with draw tube about a foot off the bottom to avoid water and coolant and dirt. Fill pipe for outside tank goes thru wall to inside of shop. Makes it nice filling tank from oil shuttles in bad weather. Uses a portable pump with a suck tube to draw oil from top lid of shuttles and pump into outside tank, which makes it easier to avoid junk in bottom of shuttles. Plenty of oil from friends/neighbors to add to our own. |
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north,ala | Clean burn , had a lanair before it all kinds of issues. |
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NC IA | I've had a 140,000 btu Reznor for 15 years, I'd have to say overall its been a pretty good unit. I give it a good servicing (takes about 4-6 hrs if you do it ALL and correctly) once a year and "if" you keep the antifreeze out of it, it is pretty much trouble free. Burns about 1 gal per running hour. |
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