Thread: Oil burning shed heaters

Originally Posted by ozzirt

Ahhh, If only I lived a bit closer,... Sighhhhh....

Farmer's treasure piles,... riches beyond belief. They've all just about disappeared around here, last year when scrap steel was bringing $350+ a ton a scrap merchant moved in an skinned out all of the good heaps, including my favourite around at the local trucking company.

I guess it's OK to add my latest doings to this earlier post.

I have just been outside developing a new textured paint, it's called "Buggy Yellow". It appears that my preferred colour has a great attraction for midges and those little bugs I call vinegar flies. The paint which is an alkyd enamel touch dries in ten minutes in just about any weather, but not quick enough to dry before the bugs descend all over it. With larger bugs, i just generally wait until the paint has dried and brush off the bodies leaving only their little leggy peggies, but these little brutes are not content to die gracefully and manage to almost fully immerse themselves in the new coat of paint leaving little black lumps everywhere.


Gotta go,... it's time for another coat of bugs. F@*#!! Grrrr....

P.S. The white cylinder in the background was part of my
lighting up fluid storage that I had plumbed into the dripper system. It was removed because i didn't like the idea of a pressurised container of highly flammable fluid sitting next to my heater. It looked more and more like a Napalm bomb every time I looked at it,... but it might get re installed next summer via a long copper tube from outside. I gutted our old fridge and had about 3 metres of 6mm tube in it.

I found it was the same with the Gloss Black Paint I used to spray Paint the Oil resoivour and water seperator tanks with , Dust and Bugs settled on them pretty quickly , it's almost like bugs get attracted to the scent , the Buggy Yellow you've used is very similar to the Yellow that I painted the Orger with ?? came up pretty good , Tony will have to finish it off , didn't have enough time and paining in the wind , paint was sprayed everywhere as apposed the the surface of the metal .

P.S Nice Paint job BTW..


[quote=Rangier Rover;1043922]

You and I mixed togeather may be very dangerous if that was the case


I have kept all my treasure here and the scapy aint gettin it either
So handy to be able to wander out and find most things you need... Has got me out of trouble a few times Have two more HWS and a few gas bottles.... Khos has been eying up and old LPG tank near the work shop.... Not sure what he has in mind yet


Have you a spare corner in a shed? You need a temporary spray booth. As I will when my Rangie gets resprayed. Some black plastic and hundred mile an hour tape. Some sort of a recycled and unloved vent fan out of a WC of bath room etc. Maybe a heater as well. No more bugs or dust

I was eyeballing the LPG tank , it would make a good oil/water seperator , just have to get the fittings sorted and drilled some holes and tap them in. also there is another 20L Drum there that has a few dents in it,If tony has no use for it I was thinking another Oil resevior.

Originally Posted by Rangier Rover

You and I mixed togeather may be very dangerous if that was the case

I think we could have a few laughs, although it could get noisy at times.

Khos has been eying up and old LPG tank near the work shop.... Not sure what he has in mind yet

It is always handy to remember that many garages toss out 9Kg and 5Kg disposable refrigerant cylinders quite regularly. I always keep a couple on hand as they make excellent small fuel tanks for stationary engines etc., absolutely perfect for water searators.

Have you a spare corner in a shed? You need a temporary spray booth.

Hah!... you jest of course Sir, spare space is always at an absolute premium around here. Several years ago my local steel merchant built a new workshop and store 80' x 200' x 30' and when I next visited he was showing the little woman and I proudly around saying, "What could you do with a shed like this Spike. The Missus just said "It'd be no use at all Robby, he'd have it full of rubbish in a month"

Now I thought, that's really mean,... true maybe, but mean. Damned tart,.. I tell ya', I had a good mind to whack her one, in the ear, but I figured that Robby wouldn't like my blood all over his new concrete floor.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

I found it was the same with the Gloss Black Paint I used to spray Paint the Oil resoivour and water seperator tanks with , Dust and Bugs settled on them pretty quickly , it's almost like bugs get attracted to the scent , the Buggy Yellow you've used is very similar to the Yellow that I painted the Orger with ?? came up pretty good , Tony will have to finish it off , didn't have enough time and paining in the wind , paint was sprayed everywhere as apposed the the surface of the metal .

P.S Nice Paint job BTW..

I'm really glad that it's a crappy photo, or you would see all of the rough preparation etc. I have a few gallons of that paint left, it was the colour used by Union Bulkships many years ago to paint the funnels of their ships. When the vessel I was on changed ownership to ASP it was all surplus as they did not use it. The bloke incharge of the paint store got any paint that was useful as house paint, and didn't want the Sunflower Yellow. It sat on the shelf for years and was about to be ditched when he saw me on deck one day and asked if i wanted it as he was scared the bottoms were rusting out and he didn't want a mess in his store. Being a natural Bower bird I snatched it up, and decanted it into clean plastic drums, there were originally 4 x 20lt drums of it, of which i probably have 15 lts remaining. It's very expensive paint and has lasted me well, I painted all of my mining gear with it and it withstood the weather for years.

I was eyeballing the LPG tank , it would make a good oil/water seperator , just have to get the fittings sorted and drilled some holes and tap them in. also there is another 20L Drum there that has a few dents in it,If tony has no use for it I was thinking another Oil resevior.

As I said above, for separators etc., ask your local bloke that services air conditioners if he has any old disposable gas cylinders

Tried to take a few pics but are not special. Hard to show what its realy like.

For what its worth I'll throw them up anyway

Contact!!!!


You wont want it in a house if this happens unless you like smoked pork You have to be very quick closing the door to prevent this or not use diesel to start it


For safety sake it now has a chinaman's as the flames got a bit to close to the roof last time


I does get verrrry hot!


I grabbed some 6" down pipe today so it can breathe out side the roof line. Not sure how much it will like the heat though

Tony,you really need to move that heater away from those tyres

that thing gets extremly hot , it's right next to the fridge with all the thinners and solvents. as you mentioned earlier. Might have to come back to Springvale to help move it

geez , it's glowing , piccys could be a bit better quality , but that's what happens when you don't use a tripod in low light, imagine that inside the house with the cold winters up there , you 've already saved a few $$ by not buying that hydrualic wood splitter.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

Tony,you really need to move that heater away from those tyres

They will only smoke a bit if they burn

that things gets extremly hot , and it's right next to the fridge with all the thinners and solvent. as you mentioned earlier. Might have to come back to Springvale to help move it

The fridge is my flame proof storage..... Sheal be right..... Wont it

geez , it's glowing , piccys could be a bit better quality , but that's what happens when you don't use a tripod in low light,

I haven't had it flat chat yet as gets way to hot near all that stuff.
Gonna be a major relocating it as many things will have to move out of its way. Wont want any thing plastic or combustible within at least two mtrs over time.

I Wonder how well the heater will Draw with the 6" pipe extn's going up and outside, be interesting to see the chinaman you got on top of the flu has already collected quite a bit of deposit Smokes a fair bit initially when started on dieso , but as ozzirt noted earlier once it gets hot and oil thins down a bit , she is off , but seems to get hot rather quickly. welldone. I look forward to Sputnik MarkII.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

I Wonder how well the heater will Draw with the 6" pipe extn's going up and outside, be interesting to see the chinaman you got on top of the flu has already collected quite a bit of deposit Smokes a fair bit initially when started on dieso , but as ozzirt noted earlier once it gets hot and oil thins down a bit , she is off , but seems to get hot rather quickly. welldone. I look forward to Sputnik MarkII.

I now have to clean the roof above it

One will have to fine tune the start technique a bit