The new neighbors will just LOVE the free winter HEATING provided by the ever thoughtful and considerate Oil Burner. If they dare disagree, just send them the heating bill.
The oil burner man is the MAN! Your videos are just as good as it gets. The humour about the US measuring system is right on point. 28 kilos is about um about well Not to sure as who the hell knows how many pounds and ounces it really is. The USA uses pounds and ounces and they won't change because they haven't figured out what a kilogram really is yet. Hope they don't try to change over to the metric system before they land on Mars as they could end up on Pluto instead, heaven forbid!
I think that when people ask the consumption, they want some kind of visualisation of it... Like being able to see a ratio between the size of the flame/the numer of drop (or glasses) of oils per second. Amazing work, outstanding ideas!
Funniest thing I've watched in a long time, I love the comment about the new neighbors how lucky they are. And I love the how there's no politically correct speech whatsoever!!!!?
Excellent video as usual! Your new neighbours will have many hours of joy watching your scrap meltdowns, they are very lucky people with all the free entertainment. Wish I bought that place, could have moved all my old engines and other projects in next door to you Mob!
+rustymotor Yeah, that's exactly what I reckon mate! I mean they could have moved in next to any boring arse, quiet, unexciting neighbor that doesn't have contraptions making jet engine noises and shooting flames around and how unentertaining would that be? I hope they appreciate they appreciate the good fortune they have been honored with. Move your engines in next door??? Pigs arse! You could have moved them in here! At least while your 7.5 by 20M shed was being built. that's the size of their back yard but I have 2, 7x12M sheds largely full of the wifes crap but I'd soon find a way to dispose of that in my High temp incinerator that looks just like a scrapping furnace! I could see the side fence would quickly disappear, I wouldn't want any barrier between you and I and our fine collection of historical artifacts and sacred object' de art! Much as you being my neighbor would be a dream come true, I couldn't do it to you mate. you'd go Nuts in Sydney, especially the part where I am. BUT! I am looking for a new place ( which isn't easy) and the wife is keen on acreage which will suit my purposes and proclivities. Did you know you can have a 30x 12M shed built for under $30 grand? I'm just Finishing picking the Tiles for the bathroom which will be next to the generator hall opposite the Billiard room and theater. Spose I should work out what's going to go in the house at some time.
+Oil Burner I hope your new Neighbours wont be too boring and start complaining about explosions, ash fouling their Petunias or losing pet Poodles in your scrap heaps! Tell you what, I reckon it would be great to have a like minded Neighbour to have next door, a bit of acreage and a large shed would be perfect! I have over 20 engines and a large scrap metal pile to sort plus lots of good Aluminium to melt down, sounds like that block next door would be good but I don't think I would like the traffic too much. I go nuts if I have to wait 5 minutes for a freight train to roll by out here!Good luck with the house decorating, when my Missus was away I snuck in an old single cylinder Marine engine into the lounge room and set it up, it sure looks lovely however the Missus went crook about it when she got back especially after I started it and the room filled with oil smoke, did smell better than one of them fancy incense candle thingies. The engine is still inside though!
***** Brilliant! Mine tolerated my Harley in the lounge room for years. I rode it all the time and right through the house back to it's parking spot. I finally had to start parking it in the garage as the Kids used it as a $30,000 play gym and got their greasy fingermarks all over it. Now they have grown up, the space is filled with her crap.... that I'd need a bobcat to clear out. I'm working on a night light for the neighbors, something I can get the flame to come up at least 15 ft up out of the burner. Instead of a water feature, I want a fire feature in the back yard.... right over their side of the backyard..... :0)
Great to hear mate! I'm sure all the safety conscious viewers will finally be happy too! A safe, fireproof house that can't burn down! Well done! It's probably easy to knock some walls out and extend this nice safe home as well as the kids grow up. I hear that stuff breaks real easy with a hammer so you could just get them to break it up real fine then put it in all the neighbours bins on garbage night to save you a trip to the dump. Another building tip.... pour old engine oil round the place and on all your timbers near the ground to stop white ants. It's really good at stopping them and if you have a wooden fence, coat it in old engine oil and a bit of diesel. Once the excess washes off the fence will last for decades especially if you give it another hit every few years like my Grandpa used to do!
Oil Burner Oh yes, it certainly does break up nice and easy with a hammer, and in this windy weather most of it just blows away, no need to worry about disposal at all! That's a good trick with the oil. Do you know if it works on the bloody green ants? I know it really upsets the greens, just not sure about ants.
+Kyle Coulson I'm not against safety, just whingers and people with too much time on their hands and too little DIY knowledge that go way overboard with it all. The way some of these safety crybabies go on, we'd all be putting on PPE to eat our dinner. Wouldn't want to spill that hot coffee on yourself if you weren't wearing a leather apron, cut your finger because you weren't wearing gloves or stab yourself in the eye because you weren't wearing goggles would you? OTOH, Millions of people even with the lowest modicum of commons sense manage to eat meals their whole lives without mishap.... just like a lot of DIYers manage what they do without killing or maiming themselves.
Here I was looking for ways to make a bigger foundry.. I went from coffee can and a little propane torch to HOLY CRAP WHAT IS THIS? So.. I'm definitely subscribing.. and I'll be looking to see how you built this burner next! lol I've always wanted to use my oil waste since it keeps piling up in various containers around the garage. regular oil changes on 3 vehicles adds up quick! I'd wager I have at least a few 55 gallon drums worth kicking about. This is going to be fun!
I do have several Burner build vids on my channel. They aren't difficult to make. I did them so anyone could. I get people bringing me oil now to get rid of it. Works out great for everyone. Sounds like you have enough to get you through winter for home heating as well!
sublime... used to work in a small Al foundry... they used an electric kiln to melt... took forever... one safety tip worth mentioning is the fact that you heated yer ladle b4 stickin it into the molten aluminum... any moisture and youd be splattered lol... water and molten aluminum dont mix... im no safety sissy but that shit explodes when water gets under the surface... we used to work in t-shirts in the bay in winter with the bay door fully open it was so hot hahahaha we could have saved a lot of time on morning meltdown using your methods... well done
I love the metric to standard conversions, "Who the hell knows". I'll agree to disagree on what units to measure. Love the set up and how fast it goes through all the "Alley." Fun to watch!
Maybe I'm just not smart enough for Imperial. 17mm is just so much easier than 1 and 7/8 Ninesixteenths and a half.... and all that or 345Ml rather than 2 and 9th quarts.... Maybe the best measurement is " about that much" or " Nearly this Long. The universal measurement of " Football fields" that seems everything in the US is measured by doesn't work universally because different codes of football around the world have different length playing fields. :0)
I can't wait to build one of these, I took and old air tank and put a tube in it and filled it with cement, however later on I read this was dangerous as cement would explode so I chickened out and never lit it.. I guess I didn't even need to line it with cement, I could have just used the steel tank...
Another great video. Thank you very much. For those who do give a shit 400grams is a little less than a pint of beer. Had to convert using the calculations from my youth. 28grams = one ounce. 1 kilo, sorry to much to imagine. Please keep up the great work. PS. for higher quality of aluminum. Raise your catch pan so it is very close. Second, burn as high as you can reasonably. This will cause less slag in the aluminum and raise the value. Still love your sense of humor.
again. Briliant. Wife thought I had pissed my pants. In truth I laughed and dropped my soda. when she saw my youtube open she shook her head an said oil burner at it again.
+Rodman Lyons Wow. I take that to be a real compliment! When the Mrs knows about what you watch, I reckon that's something! I don't think I'm that funny but it makes me feel good that others do and I give them some entertainment and enjoyment. Thanks for the feedback. It does mean a lot and is very encouraging.
Hi Tom Copland here again! I priced a 4" elbow for my Tank £45 quid. My nearest Scrappy is 50 miles away, So a new plan is needed. but i got my burner fired up last night. I will learn how to post a video on youtube later.
+TheEmptynester Thanks Empty...... Oh! You mean the scrap ally meltdown...... I thought you were talking about that temper meltdown I had when another of the idiots from next door parked in my driveway again this afternoon. :0) Forgot I hadn't put that on YT. Would have been entertaining though.
+Clarke E Yep, that's the idea of this. Take the metal from a form that is not useable to one that is. I have also put my crucibles in this furnace and good good melt times. It all depends how much fury you want to throw at the things. :0)
Since in America you don't have to be a natural born citizen, you do not have to possess any moral faculties whatsoever, the Constitution appears by many to be unnecessary and anything goes as long as you make a buck I think we need new blood in the scheme of things here in the states. I think you would make it as a write in candidate for president. Give it some thought and if you accept be sure to bring the biggest and baddest burner you can build with you when you come. We sure could use a big fire under some people's arses. Mighty fine videos you make also I should add; no teleprompter or anything! Exceptionally well done and very informative as well as having a good dose of humor. Keep 'em coming. Thanks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I think we can still say that!
+Ramjet74 Thank you very much. Americans seem very polite and considerate. I don't think my rough as guts and blunt personality would go down too well. I think the first order of business if I did have any power there would be to stick a hot poker up the backside of your EPA. It's one thing to have clean air and water, it's completely another to create the over the top and idiotic policies even I am aware of. There is one thing I could bring to the presidency, make the best decisions for the country and it's people, not whats best for my friends in big business and gubbermint who want to line their own nests. Being new to the place and not having any friends or contacts in this regard would be a real asset. Every country could benifit from a leader with that outlook. Very few seem to have it though. I Don't care if it is PC or not, a very merry Christmas to you and yours also and I hope you enjoy a very Prosperous and happy new year.
+Oil Burner You too and watch out for blow back! That's a hell of burner you have there guy. It made short work of those manifolds in no time. Take care.
+Steve Podhorecki Yeah, there are a lot of little plugs and spigots and fittings in these pieces that would take an inordinate amount of time to remove. this would be a much faster process and as wrecking yards always have loads of oil they have to get rid of, they have all the free fuel they need as well.
+Oil Burner The gov. would not let businesses get away with it here. Though I am not sure which is harder on the environment. But for sure this is MUCH faster than grinding everything up and all the power it takes to run the grinder and conveyors and magnets and everything else involved in the way it is done now. Though all those machines are impressive, it's still not as much fun as watching you burn it down in only a few minutes!! hahahaha.... Oh yeah, I don't think those big grinder guys can get away with their wives bathroom scales either!! ;) hahaha...
Probably been ask this dozens of times but did you buy a "fogger" tip or use something u made? Possibly its just the placement of the oil inlet tube? I have been wanting to make one and curious about any flaming back feed into my oil tank. I would hate to try and make some extra money and end up making flaming rain instead! By the way, I love your narrating. Not always a good thing but I do live next door to the fire department.
NO sort of Nozzle what so ever. There is just a bit of copper pipe (as plastic would melt) with a normal cut end on it. The air blows the oil in where the HEAT in the burner vaporises it and it burns. The position is not critical, the size is not critical NOTHING is critical on these burners except for one single thing. you MUST have the burner hot enough to vaporise ( boil) the oil into a gas to burn and maintain it. Other than that, there are NO rules or other must do's other than feed the thing air and fuel. It is IMPOSSIBLE for the oil to burn in a tube back to your tank. You could not make that happen if you tried. Watch my other vids where I explain this. I'm going to make a Q&A Vid soon to put all the commonly asked questions in one Vid.
+Steve 1961P. I wish! Would be the perfect place to get an engine and a gearbox for a melt down vid. I can pull the engine and box out of a suby in 90 min if i don't get interrupted.
+OgMandin0 And of course once you have consumed those essential life maintaining hydrating brewed beverages, you have more Aloominummmm to melt down! Perfect!
hi i watched all your videos here and i followed you since long time i want to thank you about all your advices to us and the explanations also the clear good work i did same following you step by step and i succeed in it all really and i am happy but the only thing which doesn't work with me is the waste oil as fuel i mean here in my place the sahara desert is so hard for me to get much waste oil i want you to tell me how if i change waste oil by diesel because this one is cheap here and not hard to get much for a good long heat and a high temperature thank you so much sir Oil burner
+tracychapman1000 Thanks for the kind words. Diesel is perfectly interchangeable with waste oil in these burners and is in fact capable of more heat output per litre. You can also use Vegetable oil, transmission or gearbox oil, Kerosene, turpentine, coconut or any other oil you can get your hands on and you can mix them all together as well. These burners will run on any combustible liquid you can find but I wouldn't recommend running them on petrol although with proper care and apart from the safety factor, there is no reason it wouldn't work just as well in a burner of this type.
thank you so much sir i will try to mix diesel with any kind of oil then use the mixture as fuel and see what will happen thanks a million for the reply wish good luck for you and i am waiting always for more videos and ideas :-)
+TekkitPro 99 I'll have to work out something in the new year that can be screwed together from plumbing parts or the like that can be replicated by anyone any where so they know they have something that is workable. I don't know how else I can show how to build them or how to fire them up but would certainly welcome suggestions on what people want to see.
I would like suggestions (if you have any) on an easy way to turn the burner down, like when I want to open the lid on the foundry or if I want to point my burner in a different direction. I would want it running in "idle" mode to make changes like that if possible. I've tried turning the air way down and then a few seconds later turning the fuel off. My thought process is to let some extra fuel in the burner to keep things burning while on idle. I'd like to hear what you have done. The most dangerous times of playing with these type of burners is too much fuel and not enough air. When it flashes over you can get one hell of a backfire and even fireballs coming out of unexpected areas. I've seen a fireball blow right out through my ducted fan! Obviously minimizing the chance of those happening is key to a well running burner/foundry. So suggestions welcome! :)
+Christopher Moore (CreatingMoore) Hi Chris, I was sure I posted a reply before to you but clearly it isn't here. I was away in the country where the internet is flaky so it must not have gone through. I do much the same as you do, turn the air right down or off and most times done even worry about the oil if it's only going to be a short time. Yes, it will flare a bit on start up but being the sick puppy I am, I kinda enjoy that. A lot! I'd suggest just turn the oil off after maybe 10 sec of turning the air off or turn it down. I have 2 valves on my fuel drums. One is a ball valve that is a straight on and off and the other is a gate valve I use for regulation. By shutting the ball valve off I can open it again and not lose the setting on the other one. As long as the burner is hot it should stay burning without the air and a bit of oil in it and even if it goes out, you should be able to open the oil for a bit then hit the air and it will relight. I have demonstrated that a few times on my vids but I can't remember which ones now. I have done it for up to a minute after shut off if the burner is hot. If you have something in the furnace like a lump of box steel you could use as a pedestal for your crucible, that should act like a glow plug and help with restarts if the fire does do out. The heavier and thicker the steel the better. Alternately you could also set up an idle fuel circuit. Tee off a line with a valve or even something like a a plug with a hole drilled in it that you can have allowing a small amount of oil when you turn the air off and then open the normal fuel valve when you want to restart.
+Oil Burner I started playing around last night with Gasoline. I believe it's what you're using to start your burners. I think you call it petrol. I was scared to use Gasoline because of its volatility but decided it was better than struggling so much. When I use my old style burners they have a large hole in the top so lighting them is easy as pie. I can use diesel without issue. But now that I’m testing a fire extinguisher, the diesel isn’t allowing it to vaporize easy enough and it’s a royal pain in the ass. So I started pouring in a bit of gasoline, maybe a quarter cup… and it seems to light up well. I just have to purge the fumes, before lighting. Now what I’m running into is that my blower is just too powerful. Covering up the inlet port is just not cutting it. I need more control. So I’m going to build a small diverter box. If I build the box properly, I should have complete control of the air from zero to full, while the blower itself is running full open all the time. I think this will make my startups much more simple since startup is the piece I’m most struggling with now that I’m testing the fire extinguisher build.
+Oil Burner how much money could a person realistically make with one of these furnaces? ive been wanting to get into scrapping but ive heard some places won't accept ingots so ive been putting it off
+Oil Burner hmm Do you ever get small pops or micro-explosions as the burner gets a gulp of fresh air from something (stray breeze) when you have the air turned off but oil still in the chamber?
+killman369547 Sorry mate, that's a bit of a How long is a piece of string question I think. Off the top of my head the first things would be what the prices in your area are, what metal you are going to go after, if it's ally, where you going to source it and how much for, how much time do you have to put into it, how big a setup can you do..... You would really be in a better position to answer that than I would. I can make good pocket money out of it but sourcing enough raw material would be the problem to earn a full time income out of it. That said, steel is worth nothing atm and an aluminium motor is classed as mixed scrap so basically steel price. If you could buy or a few cents above steel price and sell at ally price, You could do well if you can get enough scrap to keep you going without having to spend all day getting it.
+Alex Witte Cost? It runs on free waste oil you can get from restaurants or mechanics. Whatever liquid oil you can get. I think this would have taken well less than 10L if I was just doing the melt and not trying to video as well which stretches things out.
+MonkeyBoyShit Yep, All Suby parts from my fathers wrecking yard. I have been wanting to do a whole engine for about a year now but just haven't been in the right place at the right time. Complete they are worth about $2 here with the steel in them atm, with all the ally melted off they would be worth at least 50. Maybe I should go round buying them for $5 and make a small business out of it. I reckon With the right setup to drain the ally then tip the steel out and reload the thing, I could do at least 3 engines an hour. Then again if I were going to do that, I'd build something I could load 2-3 engines in at a time and really get some production going! :0)
Oil Burner it's seriously amazing how fast the aluminium starts to flow shows the true power of waste oil other people have purpose built aluminium foundries and it takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to get it fully liquefied
+MonkeyBoyShit Yeah! That's what I notice. I mentioned this once on a casting forum and someone indignantly said yeah but you are melting it direct where as we have it in a crucible. So, I made the mini scrapping furnace out of a smaller drum, put the crucible in it and still melted the whole lot in 5 min flat! If I can melt 25kg in a completely un insulated steel drum like this, I'd still think someone with a proper setup should be able to melt a Kg or 3 a heck of a lot faster than what many seem to do! I guess other people are doing it with more finesse than I am rather than brute force, but I really don't see a lot of fun in that!
Oil Burner you could easily calm the burners down and make a more "sensible" setup but yeah it takes away the fun factor it's still heaps faster and uses wasted energy they have to buy fuels anytime they use the crucible so the cost of that takes away from the scrapping cost of the aluminium hahah it's the price you pay for being a safety nut
+Bundy Bears Shed I'm not sure Americans would be familiar with those measurements? Every US made documentary I have ever watched seems to state every hing in the standardised unit of measure of "Football Fields". Perhaps these weights and volumes can be converted into football field units to give my US viewers something they can better relate to and understand? :0)
+Jim M It seems funny to me. I am on different forums and so many from the US are very adamant the metric system is basically flawed and illogical and.... but then I see vids where they are shooting 2L " Soda" bottles and US made cars are marked 5.7L and US made guns are 5.56 or 105MM and so it goes. You seem to use 2 systems which has to be a lot more difficult than using one, whatever one that is. But that football Field thing..... " the aircraft carrier is 10 football fields long" "There is enough water flowing in the river to cover an area of 20 Football fields 1 football field deep every minute" " The empire state building is 4 football fields high". Don't you guys play a bit of baseball as well? How come that doesn't get a mention? Mega product placement by the NFL or something? " A football field is 5 and a half home runs long, it's 6 plates across. " Of course if you adopted baseball, then the football field would be so many home runs long unless the bases were loaded then it would be different... or a home run short if it were the 2nd pitch on the 3rd innings....... unless the guy on 3rd can't steal home because the guy on first got a walk and...... AGGGHHHH! My son played BB for years and I am an accredited umpire but I haven't got a clue of half of the rules because just once you learned them, the new season started and you got a 25 Page book of rule amendments. Clearly it's not yards in a football field, its how many football fields are in so many yards!
thanks for doing these videos! I am looking for a blower like you have and noticed that there are several different versions. do you happen to know what horsepower and cfm that yours does?
+Joe Calton No, I don't. Doesn't really matter for this use. I have a number of blowers now and the only difference is how over the top the heat you can make with them is. Even the smallest one is still good for over 250 Kw. Hp is less important than the design. The castle blowers are a basic design but the proper curved turbine type are the most efficient.
+Oil Burner ok thanks! I got my small foundry to run on waste oil today pretty good, its just a 7 gallon propane tank lined with refractory and with a small propane burner. it took watching your vids a few times, and some tinkering, but it melted about 20 pounds of aluminum into ingots on waste 10w-40, 5w-30, and automatic transmission fluild. would have got a vid, but just about the time I was reaching for the camera, it started giving me grief like it did not like the automatic trans fluid. I do have a castle blower coming so I can build the bigger scrapping furnace soon.
Hey mate, love your vids. Does any rust from that drum end up as inclusions in the melt? Would that be removed as dross when you re-melt for casting or end up in the final product and effect the strength of the ally?
+Clayton Firth I get more rust and dirt from whats in the bowls I pour the stuff into than anything else. Once the metal is remelted, all the impurities come to the top which is removed with the dross as you say. having the bricks on the bottom of the furnace do an amazing job of taking all the dross off the molten ally to start with.
+Oil Burner nice to know.. This approach has got to be a lot easier, and more fun, than everyone you see on the tubes cutting ally up with saws. If there is no contamination I don't understand why more guys aren't scrapping this way. I will be building one next year...
+wdavem I used about 15L . I could have easy done it in 10 but when you are trying to film on your own and show what you are doing and narrate, efficiency is not a product of the effort. If this was done in a more closed down furnace where the heat wasn't blowing straight out as fast and you could pre heat the parts on the vent, You'd do it better still. I'm thinking I might to a meltdown 3 times the size of this with what I have left atm. I doubt if I kept the thing filled with parts all the time it would use any more oil than it did with this even though I would get much more ally out of it.
+Iron Beard I was going to but I decided to spend the new year with my father and didn't get to do one. A huge flame would have been great but Dad is more important.
+Steve 1961P. Hey Steve, No the idiot neighbors wouldn't be game to try and stop me. Just had a lot on my plate and struggling for motivation and energy to do anything atm. I have some new stupidity planned to do in about 10 days time. Taking care of my Dad atm so I'll have a fire up when I get back home.
I think it's worth a fair bit more as scrap here. Been a while since I cashed any in as I'm too busy melting and hoarding it but I think it's around a .80c a Kg here in oz.
+Ennio Folini Technically its gravity fed but to get the fuel flows I need without putting the thing 30Ft in the air, I put about 2 lb of pressure on the fuel tank to speed the oil along. It would work well without the pressurization but just not as powerfully. What I am going to do is tap the output of the blower and run a small hose back to the fuel tank which will at least cancel the back pressure on the fuel line and give it more flow that way. I'm already using 1/2" hose, don't want to go any bigger than that as it gets annoying to manage and very stiff and heavy.
+BitGridTV I have done a couple of copper melts but it's something that really needs a half decent furnace to do. I'll have to get round to building another brick furnace in the new year and melt that down. The Furnace itself I mean! :0) I melted bricks before.
The burner itself only gives a nice warm air smell with the occasional hint of Donuts. What you melt might be different. Because these things can easily run over oxygen rich. you can burn plastic with them and get no smoke or smell.
+creativeanarchy1 No, they are cast steel so if they are not in a furnace, the heat loss would be too great for them to melt. In a furnace however where they would be exposed to flame on all surfaces and the heat would be far more concentrated, melting them would be relatively easy. I have collapsed some 1.5" copper elbows I mucked around with a while back though.
+MN SHP (MNSHP11) Probably but I'm not sure how. Would take a smarter person than I to work it out though. I imagine the air flow rate into the evaporator chamber would have to be spot on though or you'd have flame going up the hose to the handpiece. Depending on the size of the flame you wanted, I would think it would be easier to use a spray nozzle as the handpiece and feed it compressed air and oil.
+MN SHP (MNSHP11) hmm not sure how successful that would be im sure one could make it work. i think an easier way to achieve the same result would be to copy the fuel nozzles in jet engines they're designed to atomize the fuel very finely for a fast burn though to get thicker fuels through one with any sort of speed probably would require a pump
If you would make something like a L shape where the burner shoots in at the bottom, and you can just pile the parts in the "pointing up" part.. And add some sort of "on / off" for the output.. then you would maybe be able to even put it in a format thats doesnt need remelting one more time. like muffins.. or on a angle bar.. =)
+Moronicsmurf Yeah, I'd actually like to put the burner on the top of the furnace with the angle facing down. That way everything on the bottom would get the heat and the burner would run really hot at the top allowing for biblical type oil flows although the thing is full of fire at about 200Kw. For the output I'm thinking a trough at the bottom where the flame can spill out with the ally to keep it hot and regulate the flow of ally into molds buy just slightly raising or lowering the trough to allow it to pour.
Yeah my setup used a hole in the side.. i actually found it was harder to heat the "short" distance of side to side of the barrel rather than just putting the flame in from the front.. but mind the fact my burner is alot smaller.. planning to build one of those.. torpedo ones next.. just need to get my dirty hands on a larger blower..
+Yves Baggi I miss quoted and calculated substantially Yves. Here in Sydney atm the going rate has gone down a lot to .80c Kg! It was around double that not so long ago. That makes my melt worth $20. Lot different to $100! :0) Steel is down to $10 ton!! Wouldn't pay for fuel to get it to a yard but if you have to get rid of it, no choice!
+Oil Burner thanks, I checked what we get here in Switzerland. and it seems it's about 1.5 Swiss franc (same as US$ and Euro at the moment) per kg. www.barec.ch/fr/ferraille-et-metaux/produits/liste-de-prix.html sot shoot for $1000 days we'd need about 700kg. It's probably feasible to do in a day but one would also need to get the oil and get the aluminium parts. Short of getting parts from cars in my paring garage at work and in the mal that woud be the goughest part....
"As clean aluminum it is worth around $1.50 per kilo here. The 'aloominum' as the Americans say, is also good for casting in home foundry into other objects ." you realize that is how it is spelt right? aluminum. you people say it "aluminium". where do you figure in the second *i*
That's because your using the non standard spelling and so you mispronounce the word. Start spelling it right and you would understand those who are using the proper form of the word.
The international pronunciation is aluminium, so you could argue that the scientific community at large prefers aluminium, but it all means the same thing.
The i is there because it belongs there, just the same as Titanium, Calcium and Americium amongst others. Take the ‘i’ out of those and they sound dumb. Just like Aluminum.
@@glumpy10 Can you do a full video from start to finish building a furnace? I'm interested in making one at home, and it seems like the only thing I'm missing is how to deliver the oil to the furnace on a budget
+Yves Baggi Apart from a lack of an engine ATM, NOTHING! :0) I left a blower and an oil supply setup at my fathers place last time I was there so the next time i go back and there is an engine there, i'll do the long awaited video. Easier do it there than bring a filthy engine back with me which would be a pain to handle. He has a fork lift to make everything easy! I think I'll go buy 50 acres and all my YT friends can be my and each others neighbors. How cool would that be? If we were neighbors we could get that oil powered home heating system going and build it a bit bigger to do both our houses! We could have our wives running round in their bikinis all year round and have every door and window in the place open and still be toasty warm. Of course our winter here is probably toasty warm already compared to what you are used to. No snow EVER where I am! :0)
+Oil Burner I like that idea of a YT BURNERS COMMUNITY!!! I think we'd have a bunch of drunken video's to go along, but we'd have plenty of aluminum beer cans to continuously feed the burner. Maybe we can figure out a way to use the exhaust to turn a generator and not only heat the community, but also power it.. Let's see. Burner + Boiler + Turbine + desalination plant + Bikini's.... Sounds great to me!!!! ;)
perdón, alguien sabe de un tutorial para hacer el soplete, quemador de aceite usado, la cosa esa de donde sale el fuego? no hablo ingles, ayudenme porfavor, no se como decirle, necesitamos hacer uno en casa ya q mandarlo a hacer sale demasiado costoso.
+KD0LRG Not yet but if the moronic little butt wipe gives me any more grief, " How to incinerate a Tarago " will be the title and subject of the next Vid I put up!
+Oil Burner Well on another note if you mess up that scale the wife might stuff you in that barrel and turn you into a glowing pile of carbon dust. Next time flip out that giant muffin and try cooking up a steak. Been awhile since you cooked on the channel.
+Oil Burner Well on another note if you mess up that scale the wife might stuff you in that barrel and turn you into a glowing pile of carbon dust. Next time flip out that giant muffin and try cooking up a steak. Been awhile since you cooked on the channel.
@@glumpy10 I really love your videos, my brother and I have tried to re create some of your burners but we just cant seem to get it right, i'd love it if you put up a troubleshooting video soon!
@@glumpy10 keeping it going, we've only tried it a handful of times but it will start on a diesel soaked rag and will run on that and oil for a few minutes then once the rag's gone it dies out, I'm thinking that it doesn't get hot enough so that it instantly evaporates the oil or it needs a naked Flame to touch the oil earlier in the tube. Although it may be the oil, we are using a mix of stuff we found laying around, mainly hydraulic, gear and engine oil from excavators.
The new neighbors will just LOVE the free winter HEATING provided by the ever thoughtful and
considerate Oil Burner. If they dare disagree, just send them the heating bill.
The oil burner man is the MAN! Your videos are just as good as it gets. The humour about the US measuring system is right on point. 28 kilos is about um about well Not to sure as who the hell knows how many pounds and ounces it really is. The USA uses pounds and ounces and they won't change because they haven't figured out what a kilogram really is yet. Hope they don't try to change over to the metric system before they land on Mars as they could end up on Pluto instead, heaven forbid!
oil burner, you are a hoot to watch! I love learning about this stuff you're doing, and your commentary keeps me in stiches
I think that when people ask the consumption, they want some kind of visualisation of it... Like being able to see a ratio between the size of the flame/the numer of drop (or glasses) of oils per second. Amazing work, outstanding ideas!
Unbelievably cool having your own blast furnace in the backyard. A modern day Hephaestus! Never knew having a meltdown could be so much fun.
Funniest thing I've watched in a long time, I love the comment about the new neighbors how lucky they are. And I love the how there's no politically correct speech whatsoever!!!!?
Excellent video as usual! Your new neighbours will have many hours of joy watching your scrap meltdowns, they are very lucky people with all the free entertainment. Wish I bought that place, could have moved all my old engines and other projects in next door to you Mob!
+rustymotor Yeah, that's exactly what I reckon mate! I mean they could have moved in next to any boring arse, quiet, unexciting neighbor that doesn't have contraptions making jet engine noises and shooting flames around and how unentertaining would that be? I hope they appreciate they appreciate the good fortune they have been honored with.
Move your engines in next door??? Pigs arse! You could have moved them in here! At least while your 7.5 by 20M shed was being built. that's the size of their back yard but I have 2, 7x12M sheds largely full of the wifes crap but I'd soon find a way to dispose of that in my High temp incinerator that looks just like a scrapping furnace! I could see the side fence would quickly disappear, I wouldn't want any barrier between you and I and our fine collection of historical artifacts and sacred object' de art!
Much as you being my neighbor would be a dream come true, I couldn't do it to you mate. you'd go Nuts in Sydney, especially the part where I am. BUT! I am looking for a new place ( which isn't easy) and the wife is keen on acreage which will suit my purposes and proclivities. Did you know you can have a 30x 12M shed built for under $30 grand?
I'm just Finishing picking the Tiles for the bathroom which will be next to the generator hall opposite the Billiard room and theater. Spose I should work out what's going to go in the house at some time.
+Oil Burner I hope your new Neighbours wont be too boring and start complaining about explosions, ash fouling their Petunias or losing pet Poodles in your scrap heaps! Tell you what, I reckon it would be great to have a like minded Neighbour to have next door, a bit of acreage and a large shed would be perfect! I have over 20 engines and a large scrap metal pile to sort plus lots of good Aluminium to melt down, sounds like that block next door would be good but I don't think I would like the traffic too much. I go nuts if I have to wait 5 minutes for a freight train to roll by out here!Good luck with the house decorating, when my Missus was away I snuck in an old single cylinder Marine engine into the lounge room and set it up, it sure looks lovely however the Missus went crook about it when she got back especially after I started it and the room filled with oil smoke, did smell better than one of them fancy incense candle thingies. The engine is still inside though!
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Brilliant! Mine tolerated my Harley in the lounge room for years. I rode it all the time and right through the house back to it's parking spot. I finally had to start parking it in the garage as the Kids used it as a $30,000 play gym and got their greasy fingermarks all over it. Now they have grown up, the space is filled with her crap.... that I'd need a bobcat to clear out.
I'm working on a night light for the neighbors, something I can get the flame to come up at least 15 ft up out of the burner.
Instead of a water feature, I want a fire feature in the back yard.... right over their side of the backyard..... :0)
I love the bit about the new neighbours. Yes, some folks are just lucky!!!!!!
This really makes things happen. Like the simplicity fella.
I was trying to figure out how i was going to get all of my scrap auto parts into pieces... This is the way!
Puts on the elbow with his bare hand, and gives you safety tips!
I did it in the kitchen and my house didn't catch fire.
That's because my house is made of genuine quality asbestos.
Great to hear mate! I'm sure all the safety conscious viewers will finally be happy too! A safe, fireproof house that can't burn down!
Well done! It's probably easy to knock some walls out and extend this nice safe home as well as the kids grow up. I hear that stuff breaks real easy with a hammer so you could just get them to break it up real fine then put it in all the neighbours bins on garbage night to save you a trip to the dump.
Another building tip.... pour old engine oil round the place and on all your timbers near the ground to stop white ants. It's really good at stopping them and if you have a wooden fence, coat it in old engine oil and a bit of diesel.
Once the excess washes off the fence will last for decades especially if you give it another hit every few years like my Grandpa used to do!
Oil Burner Oh yes, it certainly does break up nice and easy with a hammer, and in this windy weather most of it just blows away, no need to worry about disposal at all!
That's a good trick with the oil. Do you know if it works on the bloody green ants? I know it really upsets the greens, just not sure about ants.
You might appreciate what I have been up to this evening: imgur.com/a/WhrmU
It's a gas burner currently, but oil is coming.
Looks awesome. Can't wait to see it on oil.
Love your channel
Learn loads especially the safety tips
Your horse rider tip cracked me up 😂😂😂
Keep em coming
Terry from hull england
Your safety tip are awesome!!! Being safe isn't fun!
+Kyle Coulson I'm not against safety, just whingers and people with too much time on their hands and too little DIY knowledge that go way overboard with it all. The way some of these safety crybabies go on, we'd all be putting on PPE to eat our dinner. Wouldn't want to spill that hot coffee on yourself if you weren't wearing a leather apron, cut your finger because you weren't wearing gloves or stab yourself in the eye because you weren't wearing goggles would you?
OTOH, Millions of people even with the lowest modicum of commons sense manage to eat meals their whole lives without mishap.... just like a lot of DIYers manage what they do without killing or maiming themselves.
Here I was looking for ways to make a bigger foundry.. I went from coffee can and a little propane torch to HOLY CRAP WHAT IS THIS? So.. I'm definitely subscribing.. and I'll be looking to see how you built this burner next! lol I've always wanted to use my oil waste since it keeps piling up in various containers around the garage. regular oil changes on 3 vehicles adds up quick! I'd wager I have at least a few 55 gallon drums worth kicking about. This is going to be fun!
I do have several Burner build vids on my channel. They aren't difficult to make. I did them so anyone could. I get people bringing me oil now to get rid of it. Works out great for everyone. Sounds like you have enough to get you through winter for home heating as well!
sublime... used to work in a small Al foundry... they used an electric kiln to melt... took forever... one safety tip worth mentioning is the fact that you heated yer ladle b4 stickin it into the molten aluminum... any moisture and youd be splattered lol... water and molten aluminum dont mix... im no safety sissy but that shit explodes when water gets under the surface... we used to work in t-shirts in the bay in winter with the bay door fully open it was so hot hahahaha we could have saved a lot of time on morning meltdown using your methods... well done
Great way to do bulk--- to get it down to just the raw material. Earned a sub, this is some bad ass shit.
I love the metric to standard conversions, "Who the hell knows". I'll agree to disagree on what units to measure. Love the set up and how fast it goes through all the "Alley." Fun to watch!
Maybe I'm just not smart enough for Imperial. 17mm is just so much easier than 1 and 7/8 Ninesixteenths and a half.... and all that or 345Ml rather than 2 and 9th quarts.... Maybe the best measurement is " about that much" or " Nearly this Long. The universal measurement of " Football fields" that seems everything in the US is measured by doesn't work universally because different codes of football around the world have different length playing fields. :0)
@@glumpy10 Maaate! You're still alive! Any chance of new videos or have you flagged em for good?
Bloody good stuff !
Proper viewing material and behavior
On my goodness! How am I just finding this now and where did he go? I pray to god he is still around. I wish he was my neighbor!
I can't wait to build one of these, I took and old air tank and put a tube in it and filled it with cement, however later on I read this was dangerous as cement would explode so I chickened out and never lit it.. I guess I didn't even need to line it with cement, I could have just used the steel tank...
Another great video. Thank you very much. For those who do give a shit 400grams is a little less than a pint of beer. Had to convert using the calculations from my youth. 28grams = one ounce. 1 kilo, sorry to much to imagine. Please keep up the great work. PS. for higher quality of aluminum. Raise your catch pan so it is very close. Second, burn as high as you can reasonably. This will cause less slag in the aluminum and raise the value. Still love your sense of humor.
Oops, I forgot. I did not see any safety gear on. Where the hell was your orange vest?
Thanks for the tips. Much appreciated. Still a lot to learn with the casting thing.
your welcome, you still need your safety gear. Put on your vest!
When working with molten metals, I always wear my safety thongs.
This is such a simple and awesome device, I'll have to try making my own!
+igotes "Like, don't touch it, alright, cos it's bloody hot". Excellent.
24.8kg is 54.6lbs. You’re damn on point.
again. Briliant. Wife thought I had pissed my pants. In truth I laughed and dropped my soda. when she saw my youtube open she shook her head an said oil burner at it again.
+Rodman Lyons Wow. I take that to be a real compliment! When the Mrs knows about what you watch, I reckon that's something! I don't think I'm that funny but it makes me feel good that others do and I give them some entertainment and enjoyment. Thanks for the feedback. It does mean a lot and is very encouraging.
+Oil Burner very entertaining. Also I plan to build me a burner to melt all sorts of stuff. And will be sure to follow your safety tips.
+Oil Burner and you are welcome sir.
Hi Tom Copland here again! I priced a 4" elbow for my Tank £45 quid. My nearest Scrappy is 50 miles away, So a new plan is needed. but i got my burner fired up last night.
I will learn how to post a video on youtube later.
Of course burning Subaru parts , it’s very satisfying; especially after replacing head gaskets 😂 😂😂😂😁😁
Hi, Oil.Nice melt down there. Thanks.
+TheEmptynester Thanks Empty...... Oh! You mean the scrap ally meltdown...... I thought you were talking about that temper meltdown I had when another of the idiots from next door parked in my driveway again this afternoon. :0)
Forgot I hadn't put that on YT. Would have been entertaining though.
+Oil Burner LOL,I would have enjoyed that too. Did you call him a safety sissy? LOL :) Best wishes, my friend.
love your videos, especially the "safety tips" freakin hilarious. keep up the good work
excellent demonstration, now I know what to do with those wheels too big for my crucible. I could melt them down into sizeable ingots from this.
+Clarke E Yep, that's the idea of this. Take the metal from a form that is not useable to one that is. I have also put my crucibles in this furnace and good good melt times. It all depends how much fury you want to throw at the things. :0)
Since in America you don't have to be a natural born citizen, you do not have to possess any moral faculties whatsoever, the Constitution appears by many to be unnecessary and anything goes as long as you make a buck I think we need new blood in the scheme of things here in the states. I think you would make it as a write in candidate for president. Give it some thought and if you accept be sure to bring the biggest and baddest burner you can build with you when you come. We sure could use a big fire under some people's arses. Mighty fine videos you make also I should add; no teleprompter or anything! Exceptionally well done and very informative as well as having a good dose of humor. Keep 'em coming. Thanks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I think we can still say that!
+Ramjet74 Thank you very much. Americans seem very polite and considerate. I don't think my rough as guts and blunt personality would go down too well. I think the first order of business if I did have any power there would be to stick a hot poker up the backside of your EPA. It's one thing to have clean air and water, it's completely another to create the over the top and idiotic policies even I am aware of.
There is one thing I could bring to the presidency, make the best decisions for the country and it's people, not whats best for my friends in big business and gubbermint who want to line their own nests. Being new to the place and not having any friends or contacts in this regard would be a real asset.
Every country could benifit from a leader with that outlook. Very few seem to have it though.
I Don't care if it is PC or not, a very merry Christmas to you and yours also and I hope you enjoy a very Prosperous and happy new year.
+Oil Burner You too and watch out for blow back! That's a hell of burner you have there guy. It made short work of those manifolds in no time. Take care.
"birds eye view" hahaha ive had the fire department here with my incinerator. The neighbors loved it
Sure saves a ton of time. No need to strip anything, really. ;)
Another fun vid, buddy.... Keep them coming....
+Steve Podhorecki Yeah, there are a lot of little plugs and spigots and fittings in these pieces that would take an inordinate amount of time to remove. this would be a much faster process and as wrecking yards always have loads of oil they have to get rid of, they have all the free fuel they need as well.
+Oil Burner The gov. would not let businesses get away with it here. Though I am not sure which is harder on the environment. But for sure this is MUCH faster than grinding everything up and all the power it takes to run the grinder and conveyors and magnets and everything else involved in the way it is done now. Though all those machines are impressive, it's still not as much fun as watching you burn it down in only a few minutes!! hahahaha.... Oh yeah, I don't think those big grinder guys can get away with their wives bathroom scales either!! ;) hahaha...
Fantastic! Fantastic! Thank you
So mesmerising to watch
+cestrianvlogger Yeah, That's what I find too!
Probably been ask this dozens of times but did you buy a "fogger" tip or use something u made? Possibly its just the placement of the oil inlet tube? I have been wanting to make one and curious about any flaming back feed into my oil tank. I would hate to try and make some extra money and end up making flaming rain instead! By the way, I love your narrating. Not always a good thing but I do live next door to the fire department.
NO sort of Nozzle what so ever. There is just a bit of copper pipe (as plastic would melt) with a normal cut end on it. The air blows the oil in where the HEAT in the burner vaporises it and it burns. The position is not critical, the size is not critical NOTHING is critical on these burners except for one single thing. you MUST have the burner hot enough to vaporise ( boil) the oil into a gas to burn and maintain it. Other than that, there are NO rules or other must do's other than feed the thing air and fuel. It is IMPOSSIBLE for the oil to burn in a tube back to your tank. You could not make that happen if you tried. Watch my other vids where I explain this.
I'm going to make a Q&A Vid soon to put all the commonly asked questions in one Vid.
Have you ever melted out the copper from motors and letting the steel fall out?
Love your vids, Thank you! Good work!
+James Brenner Thank you! Hope you enjoy them.
did your subaru engine do a head gasket? haha!
There has to be a story behind that comment, about not urinating on the furnace.
That is impressive.
Any chance the new neighbors have a SUBARU???
+Steve 1961P. I wish! Would be the perfect place to get an engine and a gearbox for a melt down vid.
I can pull the engine and box out of a suby in 90 min if i don't get interrupted.
Hahahah! 400 grams in American terms is...aw who the hell would know?!
Hot stuff!!! And, melting aloominum is THIRSTY WORK! :^)
+OgMandin0 And of course once you have consumed those essential life maintaining hydrating brewed beverages, you have more Aloominummmm to melt down! Perfect!
So lucky
Have a good day be safe
Your way of converting into American units of measurement, I am personally enthusiastic to the utmost !! For that reason alone ... SUBSCRIBED! 😉😂
hi i watched all your videos here and i followed you since long time
i want to thank you about all your advices to us and the explanations also the clear good work i did same following you step by step and i succeed in it all really and i am happy but the only thing which doesn't work with me is the waste oil as fuel i mean here in my place the sahara desert is so hard for me to get much waste oil i want you to tell me how if i change waste oil by diesel because this one is cheap here and not hard to get much for a good long heat and a high temperature thank you so much sir Oil burner
+tracychapman1000 Thanks for the kind words. Diesel is perfectly interchangeable with waste oil in these burners and is in fact capable of more heat output per litre. You can also use Vegetable oil, transmission or gearbox oil, Kerosene, turpentine, coconut or any other oil you can get your hands on and you can mix them all together as well.
These burners will run on any combustible liquid you can find but I wouldn't recommend running them on petrol although with proper care and apart from the safety factor, there is no reason it wouldn't work just as well in a burner of this type.
thank you so much sir
i will try to mix diesel with any kind of oil then use the mixture as fuel and see what will happen thanks a million for the reply wish good luck for you and i am waiting always for more videos and ideas :-)
Yes I know what to do with my two oil drums now. I will get on to it asap. I guese my neighbours are going to be upset somewhere along the line.
How many more videos do you think you can squeeze out of this furnace? The people just keep flocking back to see it fire again and again. :P
+Rainbows871 The drum is still in amazingly good condition. I reckon it's got another 10 fire ups left in it at least. :0)
This makes me want to do a burn as Howard Cosell!
Love how you take something that's worth more as it was then cast.
Subaru will supply you with aluminium for ever
Is there any links on how to build/buy a heater like this? Amazing. Look at that thing go.. just on waste oil eh? Amazing.
he has tons of videos on his channel of him building these! just click his name, then click videos.
@@teksatan4699 I did a deep dive in his channel after watching this, this dude is a legend.
@@CodingtheRoad indeed he is, its ashame there isnt new content but hes still kickin! i asked him not to long ago and he replied
i always like watching the videos you make but i get bugged on how to build oil burners i can never get them to work
+TekkitPro 99 I'll have to work out something in the new year that can be screwed together from plumbing parts or the like that can be replicated by anyone any where so they know they have something that is workable.
I don't know how else I can show how to build them or how to fire them up but would certainly welcome suggestions on what people want to see.
I would like suggestions (if you have any) on an easy way to turn the burner down, like when I want to open the lid on the foundry or if I want to point my burner in a different direction. I would want it running in "idle" mode to make changes like that if possible. I've tried turning the air way down and then a few seconds later turning the fuel off. My thought process is to let some extra fuel in the burner to keep things burning while on idle. I'd like to hear what you have done.
The most dangerous times of playing with these type of burners is too much fuel and not enough air. When it flashes over you can get one hell of a backfire and even fireballs coming out of unexpected areas. I've seen a fireball blow right out through my ducted fan! Obviously minimizing the chance of those happening is key to a well running burner/foundry.
So suggestions welcome! :)
+Christopher Moore (CreatingMoore) Hi Chris, I was sure I posted a reply before to you but clearly it isn't here. I was away in the country where the internet is flaky so it must not have gone through.
I do much the same as you do, turn the air right down or off and most times done even worry about the oil if it's only going to be a short time. Yes, it will flare a bit on start up but being the sick puppy I am, I kinda enjoy that. A lot!
I'd suggest just turn the oil off after maybe 10 sec of turning the air off or turn it down. I have 2 valves on my fuel drums. One is a ball valve that is a straight on and off and the other is a gate valve I use for regulation. By shutting the ball valve off I can open it again and not lose the setting on the other one.
As long as the burner is hot it should stay burning without the air and a bit of oil in it and even if it goes out, you should be able to open the oil for a bit then hit the air and it will relight. I have demonstrated that a few times on my vids but I can't remember which ones now. I have done it for up to a minute after shut off if the burner is hot. If you have something in the furnace like a lump of box steel you could use as a pedestal for your crucible, that should act like a glow plug and help with restarts if the fire does do out. The heavier and thicker the steel the better.
Alternately you could also set up an idle fuel circuit. Tee off a line with a valve or even something like a a plug with a hole drilled in it that you can have allowing a small amount of oil when you turn the air off and then open the normal fuel valve when you want to restart.
+Oil Burner I started playing around last night with Gasoline. I believe it's what you're using to start your burners. I think you call it petrol. I was scared to use Gasoline because of its volatility but decided it was better than struggling so much. When I use my old style burners they have a large hole in the top so lighting them is easy as pie. I can use diesel without issue. But now that I’m testing a fire extinguisher, the diesel isn’t allowing it to vaporize easy enough and it’s a royal pain in the ass.
So I started pouring in a bit of gasoline, maybe a quarter cup… and it seems to light up well. I just have to purge the fumes, before lighting. Now what I’m running into is that my blower is just too powerful. Covering up the inlet port is just not cutting it. I need more control. So I’m going to build a small diverter box. If I build the box properly, I should have complete control of the air from zero to full, while the blower itself is running full open all the time.
I think this will make my startups much more simple since startup is the piece I’m most struggling with now that I’m testing the fire extinguisher build.
+Oil Burner how much money could a person realistically make with one of these furnaces? ive been wanting to get into scrapping but ive heard some places won't accept ingots so ive been putting it off
+Oil Burner hmm Do you ever get small pops or micro-explosions as the burner gets a gulp of fresh air from something (stray breeze) when you have the air turned off but oil still in the chamber?
+killman369547 Sorry mate, that's a bit of a How long is a piece of string question I think. Off the top of my head the first things would be what the prices in your area are, what metal you are going to go after, if it's ally, where you going to source it and how much for, how much time do you have to put into it, how big a setup can you do..... You would really be in a better position to answer that than I would.
I can make good pocket money out of it but sourcing enough raw material would be the problem to earn a full time income out of it. That said, steel is worth nothing atm and an aluminium motor is classed as mixed scrap so basically steel price. If you could buy or a few cents above steel price and sell at ally price, You could do well if you can get enough scrap to keep you going without having to spend all day getting it.
Curious how much fuel it took to run this lot. Trying to get a better idea of what it costs to do this process.
+Alex Witte Cost? It runs on free waste oil you can get from restaurants or mechanics. Whatever liquid oil you can get.
I think this would have taken well less than 10L if I was just doing the melt and not trying to video as well which stretches things out.
Why would you urinate on this setup?
How do you make this bener
I love to be your new neighbor. But I think your wife and mine, might give us problems.
are those subaru intakes? look pretty familiar haha you damn near put an entire engine in that steel drum love it
total weigh in was 54.6lbs very close guess
+MonkeyBoyShit Yep, All Suby parts from my fathers wrecking yard. I have been wanting to do a whole engine for about a year now but just haven't been in the right place at the right time. Complete they are worth about $2 here with the steel in them atm, with all the ally melted off they would be worth at least 50. Maybe I should go round buying them for $5 and make a small business out of it. I reckon With the right setup to drain the ally then tip the steel out and reload the thing, I could do at least 3 engines an hour. Then again if I were going to do that, I'd build something I could load 2-3 engines in at a time and really get some production going! :0)
Oil Burner it's seriously amazing how fast the aluminium starts to flow shows the true power of waste oil other people have purpose built aluminium foundries and it takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to get it fully liquefied
+MonkeyBoyShit Yeah! That's what I notice. I mentioned this once on a casting forum and someone indignantly said yeah but you are melting it direct where as we have it in a crucible. So, I made the mini scrapping furnace out of a smaller drum, put the crucible in it and still melted the whole lot in 5 min flat!
If I can melt 25kg in a completely un insulated steel drum like this, I'd still think someone with a proper setup should be able to melt a Kg or 3 a heck of a lot faster than what many seem to do!
I guess other people are doing it with more finesse than I am rather than brute force, but I really don't see a lot of fun in that!
Oil Burner
you could easily calm the burners down and make a more "sensible" setup but yeah it takes away the fun factor it's still heaps faster and uses wasted energy they have to buy fuels anytime they use the crucible so the cost of that takes away from the scrapping cost of the aluminium hahah it's the price you pay for being a safety nut
Good stuff, I think 5 kg is 30 miles per hour or 15 gallons in usa speak or I might be wrong too. Thanks for the video.
+Bundy Bears Shed I'm not sure Americans would be familiar with those measurements? Every US made documentary I have ever watched seems to state every hing in the standardised unit of measure of "Football Fields".
Perhaps these weights and volumes can be converted into football field units to give my US viewers something they can better relate to and understand? :0)
+Jim M It seems funny to me. I am on different forums and so many from the US are very adamant the metric system is basically flawed and illogical and.... but then I see vids where they are shooting 2L " Soda" bottles and US made cars are marked 5.7L and US made guns are 5.56 or 105MM and so it goes. You seem to use 2 systems which has to be a lot more difficult than using one, whatever one that is.
But that football Field thing..... " the aircraft carrier is 10 football fields long" "There is enough water flowing in the river to cover an area of 20 Football fields 1 football field deep every minute"
" The empire state building is 4 football fields high". Don't you guys play a bit of baseball as well? How come that doesn't get a mention? Mega product placement by the NFL or something? " A football field is 5 and a half home runs long, it's 6 plates across. "
Of course if you adopted baseball, then the football field would be so many home runs long unless the bases were loaded then it would be different... or a home run short if it were the 2nd pitch on the 3rd innings....... unless the guy on 3rd can't steal home because the guy on first got a walk and...... AGGGHHHH!
My son played BB for years and I am an accredited umpire but I haven't got a clue of half of the rules because just once you learned them, the new season started and you got a 25 Page book of rule amendments.
Clearly it's not yards in a football field, its how many football fields are in so many yards!
thanks for doing these videos! I am looking for a blower like you have and noticed that there are several different versions. do you happen to know what horsepower and cfm that yours does?
+Joe Calton No, I don't. Doesn't really matter for this use. I have a number of blowers now and the only difference is how over the top the heat you can make with them is. Even the smallest one is still good for over 250 Kw.
Hp is less important than the design. The castle blowers are a basic design but the proper curved turbine type are the most efficient.
+Oil Burner ok thanks! I got my small foundry to run on waste oil today pretty good, its just a 7 gallon propane tank lined with refractory and with a small propane burner. it took watching your vids a few times, and some tinkering, but it melted about 20 pounds of aluminum into ingots on waste 10w-40, 5w-30, and automatic transmission fluild. would have got a vid, but just about the time I was reaching for the camera, it started giving me grief like it did not like the automatic trans fluid. I do have a castle blower coming so I can build the bigger scrapping furnace soon.
Hey mate, love your vids. Does any rust from that drum end up as inclusions in the melt? Would that be removed as dross when you re-melt for casting or end up in the final product and effect the strength of the ally?
+Clayton Firth I get more rust and dirt from whats in the bowls I pour the stuff into than anything else. Once the metal is remelted, all the impurities come to the top which is removed with the dross as you say. having the bricks on the bottom of the furnace do an amazing job of taking all the dross off the molten ally to start with.
+Oil Burner nice to know.. This approach has got to be a lot easier, and more fun, than everyone you see on the tubes cutting ally up with saws. If there is no contamination I don't understand why more guys aren't scrapping this way. I will be building one next year...
Most impressive!! How much oil did you use to melt all that?
+wdavem I used about 15L . I could have easy done it in 10 but when you are trying to film on your own and show what you are doing and narrate, efficiency is not a product of the effort. If this was done in a more closed down furnace where the heat wasn't blowing straight out as fast and you could pre heat the parts on the vent, You'd do it better still.
I'm thinking I might to a meltdown 3 times the size of this with what I have left atm. I doubt if I kept the thing filled with parts all the time it would use any more oil than it did with this even though I would get much more ally out of it.
Are you doing a big burner New Years video?
+Iron Beard I was going to but I decided to spend the new year with my father and didn't get to do one. A huge flame would have been great but Dad is more important.
I like that going to build me one
Where are ya buddy??? I hope you are just taking a break and not been stopped by your nut case neighbors..... Drop a dime buddy.....
+Steve 1961P. Hey Steve, No the idiot neighbors wouldn't be game to try and stop me. Just had a lot on my plate and struggling for motivation and energy to do anything atm. I have some new stupidity planned to do in about 10 days time. Taking care of my Dad atm so I'll have a fire up when I get back home.
+Oil Burner Hope all is well... Missing your vids and humor... ;)
Question do you still make new videos ?
[50 pounds] That's $9.50 worth of aluminum (2021)
I think it's worth a fair bit more as scrap here. Been a while since I cashed any in as I'm too busy melting and hoarding it but I think it's around a .80c a Kg here in oz.
en cuanto le costo el soplador de aire gracias
does that drip feed have a pump or is it gravity fed? nice video
+Ennio Folini Technically its gravity fed but to get the fuel flows I need without putting the thing 30Ft in the air, I put about 2 lb of pressure on the fuel tank to speed the oil along. It would work well without the pressurization but just not as powerfully. What I am going to do is tap the output of the blower and run a small hose back to the fuel tank which will at least cancel the back pressure on the fuel line and give it more flow that way.
I'm already using 1/2" hose, don't want to go any bigger than that as it gets annoying to manage and very stiff and heavy.
Oil Burner ah is see very clever
While I agree for the most part, my carbon arc furnace disagrees that you can't get that much heat out of electricity
24.8 KG X 2.2 KG/LB = 54.56 LBS DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TURN THE DROSS (MOSTLY ALUMINIUM OXIDE) BACK INTO PURE ALUMINUM?
Please tell us how!!
cool!
did U ever try to melt metals like copper or brass?
+BitGridTV I have done a couple of copper melts but it's something that really needs a half decent furnace to do. I'll have to get round to building another brick furnace in the new year and melt that down. The Furnace itself I mean! :0)
I melted bricks before.
Does this smell at all
The burner itself only gives a nice warm air smell with the occasional hint of Donuts. What you melt might be different. Because these things can easily run over oxygen rich. you can burn plastic with them and get no smoke or smell.
Have you ever melted the elbows for flame direction while melting things or does does it not get hot enough to melt that material?
+creativeanarchy1 No, they are cast steel so if they are not in a furnace, the heat loss would be too great for them to melt. In a furnace however where they would be exposed to flame on all surfaces and the heat would be far more concentrated, melting them would be relatively easy. I have collapsed some 1.5" copper elbows I mucked around with a while back though.
tops brother.......scrapper graeme
How do you measure the kilowatt power of the burner?
Where do i get a burner like that
you make it
@@gerryhanley5136 I did. Its fantastic
safety tip, do not sit on the barrel, the todger does not expand by that heat. ask girlfriend or wife for more information.
could you make a oil torch, vaporise the oil in a sealed container like a fire extinguisher and then lead a pipe to the nozzle of a hand torch
+MN SHP (MNSHP11) Probably but I'm not sure how. Would take a smarter person than I to work it out though. I imagine the air flow rate into the evaporator chamber would have to be spot on though or you'd have flame going up the hose to the handpiece.
Depending on the size of the flame you wanted, I would think it would be easier to use a spray nozzle as the handpiece and feed it compressed air and oil.
+MN SHP (MNSHP11) hmm not sure how successful that would be im sure one could make it work. i think an easier way to achieve the same result would be to copy the fuel nozzles in jet engines they're designed to atomize the fuel very finely for a fast burn though to get thicker fuels through one with any sort of speed probably would require a pump
If you would make something like a L shape where the burner shoots in at the bottom, and you can just pile the parts in the "pointing up" part.. And add some sort of "on / off" for the output.. then you would maybe be able to even put it in a format thats doesnt need remelting one more time. like muffins.. or on a angle bar.. =)
+Moronicsmurf Yeah, I'd actually like to put the burner on the top of the furnace with the angle facing down. That way everything on the bottom would get the heat and the burner would run really hot at the top allowing for biblical type oil flows although the thing is full of fire at about 200Kw. For the output I'm thinking a trough at the bottom where the flame can spill out with the ally to keep it hot and regulate the flow of ally into molds buy just slightly raising or lowering the trough to allow it to pour.
Yeah my setup used a hole in the side.. i actually found it was harder to heat the "short" distance of side to side of the barrel rather than just putting the flame in from the front.. but mind the fact my burner is alot smaller.. planning to build one of those.. torpedo ones next.. just need to get my dirty hands on a larger blower..
So how much do you get for a kg of aluminium down where you're at?
+Yves Baggi I guess my question was answered at the end of the video...
+Yves Baggi I miss quoted and calculated substantially Yves. Here in Sydney atm the going rate has gone down a lot to .80c Kg! It was around double that not so long ago. That makes my melt worth $20. Lot different to $100! :0)
Steel is down to $10 ton!!
Wouldn't pay for fuel to get it to a yard but if you have to get rid of it, no choice!
+Oil Burner
thanks,
I checked what we get here in Switzerland. and it seems it's about 1.5 Swiss franc (same as US$ and Euro at the moment) per kg.
www.barec.ch/fr/ferraille-et-metaux/produits/liste-de-prix.html
sot shoot for $1000 days we'd need about 700kg. It's probably feasible to do in a day but one would also need to get the oil and get the aluminium parts.
Short of getting parts from cars in my paring garage at work and in the mal that woud be the goughest part....
What was the fuel burn rate on this go?
Can't remember, I'd guess 15-20L an hour.
400g is just under a pound 0_0.. thats alot of cat food
Local rag...... Eh, I see you don't have birds... :) Being a yank I prefer the New York Times. Though if I had a source for the Daily Telegraph....
How hot does she get?? Save up a bunch of copper and do a copper vid!! With your flame it might turn green... Just an idea
+Kyle Coulson I don't think this setup would do Copper but that's not to say things can't be modified a bit so it can! :0)
+Oil Burner I dunno man what thing looks hot AF!! Try it!! Lol . I have to got to the beach to have a fire to melt metal!! I should post my vid
"As clean aluminum it is worth around $1.50 per kilo here. The
'aloominum' as the Americans say, is also good for casting in home
foundry into other objects ." you realize that is how it is spelt right? aluminum. you people say it "aluminium". where do you figure in the second *i*
That's because your using the non standard spelling and so you mispronounce the word. Start spelling it right and you would understand those who are using the proper form of the word.
different dialects... plus that is how this guy keeps spelling it.
The international pronunciation is aluminium, so you could argue that the scientific community at large prefers aluminium, but it all means the same thing.
Nick Dunn
true. plus the american dialect of english is different. like fries vs chips.
The i is there because it belongs there, just the same as Titanium, Calcium and Americium amongst others. Take the ‘i’ out of those and they sound dumb. Just like Aluminum.
what do u do your melt
+donald laisure (73SuperGlide62) I am going to start making some art castings with it.
Are you still around lad !?!
Sometimes! :0)
@@glumpy10 Can you do a full video from start to finish building a furnace? I'm interested in making one at home, and it seems like the only thing I'm missing is how to deliver the oil to the furnace on a budget
20:28 Aaand.. It's gone.
For anyone that didn't get that reference: ua-cam.com/video/-DT7bX-B1Mg/v-deo.html
What's holding you back from throwing an engine in there?
AND
I-d love to be you neighbor...
+Yves Baggi Apart from a lack of an engine ATM, NOTHING! :0) I left a blower and an oil supply setup at my fathers place last time I was there so the next time i go back and there is an engine there, i'll do the long awaited video.
Easier do it there than bring a filthy engine back with me which would be a pain to handle. He has a fork lift to make everything easy!
I think I'll go buy 50 acres and all my YT friends can be my and each others neighbors. How cool would that be?
If we were neighbors we could get that oil powered home heating system going and build it a bit bigger to do both our houses! We could have our wives running round in their bikinis all year round and have every door and window in the place open and still be toasty warm. Of course our winter here is probably toasty warm already compared to what you are used to. No snow EVER where I am! :0)
+Oil Burner now that will a vid to look forward to: "father and son melt stuff". Hope your old fella is as mad as you are!
+Oil Burner I like that idea of a YT BURNERS COMMUNITY!!! I think we'd have a bunch of drunken video's to go along, but we'd have plenty of aluminum beer cans to continuously feed the burner. Maybe we can figure out a way to use the exhaust to turn a generator and not only heat the community, but also power it.. Let's see. Burner + Boiler + Turbine + desalination plant + Bikini's.... Sounds great to me!!!! ;)
Terminator vibes
400 grams = 15.8 oz
It's called balloon-iium in NY
N that's how you do that. Cool as fk my man
perdón, alguien sabe de un tutorial para hacer el soplete, quemador de aceite usado, la cosa esa de donde sale el fuego? no hablo ingles, ayudenme porfavor, no se como decirle, necesitamos hacer uno en casa ya q mandarlo a hacer sale demasiado costoso.
Ah man get some new videos up please. Hell just make fun of sissies for 5 or 10 minutes.
Yeyeyeyey
Yes yes yes fire fire fire you fried the neighbor's car.
+KD0LRG Not yet but if the moronic little butt wipe gives me any more grief, " How to incinerate a Tarago " will be the title and subject of the next Vid I put up!
+Oil Burner Well on another note if you mess up that scale the wife might stuff you in that barrel and turn you into a glowing pile of carbon dust. Next time flip out that giant muffin and try cooking up a steak. Been awhile since you cooked on the channel.
+Oil Burner Well on another note if you mess up that scale the wife might stuff you in that barrel and turn you into a glowing pile of carbon dust. Next time flip out that giant muffin and try cooking up a steak. Been awhile since you cooked on the channel.
KD0LRG That's a Great idea! I'll definitely give that one a run!
i keep looking for your return. . . . where in hell did you go ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
not far. hope to get back to it soon.
@@glumpy10 its been way too long my friend. i hope all is well with you. tooldok@gmail.com here is beautiful, sunny, far northwest Wisconsin. . .
@@glumpy10 I really love your videos, my brother and I have tried to re create some of your burners but we just cant seem to get it right, i'd love it if you put up a troubleshooting video soon!
@@jonathansaligari5899 What are you having trouble with specifically?
@@glumpy10 keeping it going, we've only tried it a handful of times but it will start on a diesel soaked rag and will run on that and oil for a few minutes then once the rag's gone it dies out, I'm thinking that it doesn't get hot enough so that it instantly evaporates the oil or it needs a naked Flame to touch the oil earlier in the tube. Although it may be the oil, we are using a mix of stuff we found laying around, mainly hydraulic, gear and engine oil from excavators.
Could we create contact...would like to share some ideas with you???