Waste oil heaters

[ratlover]

Who makes a good forced air waste oil heater for a shop? Needs to be able to burn a combo of ATF, hydro, and motor oil. Any other thoughts or oppinions?

[Pickering Snow]

I have Clean Burns which have been ok i let them do a yearly on them but take care of the maint otherwise. You need to make a dedicated shop vac for cleaning them the soot and build up is build up quickly.

Mine burn two gallons a hour and will burn all three oils hydro is the sweetest and burns real good, make sure if you take in used oil from outsiders it doesnt have antifreeze mixed in or other contam.

My oldest unit had a heat exchanger crack out of warr and the repair was almost has much has the unit i gave 4500 each for them . I know there are other companys but overall the cleanburns have been ok.

[Jerre Heyer]

Clean burns work well. I traded to a Shenandoah about 5 yrs ago. Keeping the electrodes clean is the only problem. Heavy diesel or "DIRTY" thick oil clogs them up the most. This thing will burn everyting from gear and axle lube to kerosene.

If I get alot of thick oils and don't have anything else to mix with it I will go get a 55 of kerosene or diesel and dump it in the resivoir with 300 gal of thick stuff.

Overall a good investment. Going to a boiler next for the infloor heating.

Jerre

[CGSI]

I have a black diamond forced hot air and just bought a black diamond boiler for the new shop. the hot air works flawless

[towman]

the guy i work for has three shops, we have reznor waste oil at all three locations, they are all about 6 yrs old now and have been pretty good. once you figure out what causes them not to work properly they really are pretty simple to work on. even with these mid teen temps i work in a 70 degree shop wich is really nice

[CGSI]

I called mine Black Diamond..... It is actually Black Gold

[ratlover]

They realy go through that much oil an hour? :eek:

Currently only fill up a 55 gal drum every 3weeks or so.

[towman]

the one at the shop i work at is a three bay and the heater we have there uses 1.8 gallons , usually go thru 600 or so gallons a year