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The burner has a forced air fan and air intake adjustment, fuel pressure adjustment. When it was installed in the furnace, it burned very clean. The exhaust only had heat waves and no odour. Yes pushing exhaust through ceramic wool blanket would reduce flow, it does seem like a bad idea. But...

This is what I built, inline fuel settling contraption. To help clean waste oil before the main filter on the burner.

Sorry I had the burner in a standard oil furnace and moving it to a boiler. The furnace is out of the picture now.

Ok new question... I experimented with drawing the exhaust gasses through a heat exchanger with coolant running through it, and the exhaust temp after was 30*c with the water being 20*c. Obviously this would be a great way to capture waste heat, and seems to be a safe temperature for any heat...

A warning that I ran across looking at the ceramic wool products is that the fibers can come loose and become an inhalation hazard. This might be more of a hazard for using with a foundry more than a firebox use, but there are products to apply to the fiber mat to secure the fibers from what...

I've never worked with ceramic fiber blanket, I assume I could make a metal frame to hold it because the heat would be primarily contained on the one side

I was literally just thinking almost the same thing 🤣

This was the Beckett burner damage to the oil furnace. It took hundreds of hours to degrade this bad but the rear of the combustion chamber is disintegrated finally. It still worked but I decided it's not worth keeping anymore. The waste oil spray pattern is more narrow than heating oil thus the...

I was thinking about using stainless steel stove pipe, but not sure if even stainless would handle thousands of hours being red hot

So I'm still playing with my waste oil heating system, and as I figured the oil spraying out of the burner doesn't burn 100% clean without a combustion chamber. I set it up outside with the burner pointing into a 12" section of 6" steel stove pipe with an elbow on the end, and it works perfect...

Can always have load sensors on outriggers to trigger the grapple to release 🤔

Maybe something Similar to these booms, but without the leveling hold back arms, or whatever that's called

Also we have looked at crane masts, it could be a possibility but a lot more work to build, and more limited angles

I hear you all. Ok I actually want a grapple to grab the branch then cut with saw, and bring branch down or even logs, but just in chunks that a few hundred pounds. They make grapple saws like this but they are heavy duty forestry saws that can lift thousands of pounds and would be too heavy to...

Hi all, I was hoping a guy with limited engineering skills might find a little help and understanding... I'm not formally trained but am somewhat mechanically inclined. I build things, and usually have good luck estimating strengths and designing things without doing the math or science behind...