The Project Pad

I found a few version of this on YouTube so I figured I would give it a shot myself, with the price of scrap low I went to the local salvage yard that the air gas plant scraps all there bottles and got some supply's. 1st off I built a new chimney since my stove pipe one was getting rough, I used 6 argon tanks welded end to end to make an 18.5' chimney

This is amazing

Ok so now that the chimney was done I could move onto the waste oil furnace, the main part of the furnace is an old propane tank. Some how I don't own a plasma cutter yet so I luckly have really generous friends and I was able to borrow one for a long weekend to get 90% of the cutting done, this saved me tons of time and cut off wheels.

dude, this is extremely bitchin

So I've had it running for a week now, but before that the 1st test failed I flooded it and instead of spilling all the diesel I was using to test it I just figured I burn it off. That was a bad idea it was rolling coal like crazy so I made the second bad decision and turned the whole propane tank into a burn pot by turning on the blower sending burning diesel all through the bottom of it. After 2/3rds of it was glowing I used a fire extinguisher to shut it down, good news is all the welds held through the extreme heat cycle. I'll post the link to the you tube videos I based this off of

Thanks guys, its been a fun project that I actually finished in a timely manner. Heres on of the videos, he has a bunch of them a little dull but full of great information.https://youtu.be/AiKcx7ghtHk

pretty cool ryan. any diy project like this is a success as long as the shop doesn't burn down so, mission accomplished!

I've thought about it but we dont go through enough oil changes to make it worth it.

Love it, nice work.

I started watching vids of this last year, pretty crazy what some of the guys come up with. Also I'm amazed at how fast they melt the internals out of these things too.

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This is awesome, my work runs heat on waste oil, super sooty but the price is right! We get plenty of used oil every time the tug boats need an oil change! (150 gallon sump on each engine)

Thanks I think 150 gallons might last me all winter. I've had no issues with it now that I have the needle valve in the feed line. I'm pretty sure this will hold up for awhile nothing is thinner then .125 except I've gone to a thin ss bowl for the burn pot, it gets hotter faster to start easier and I can run less fuel and lower the heat a bit. Next upgrade is some sort of thin ring in the burn pot to try and help control the the shape and the intensity of the flame.