Thread: Oil burning shed heaters

I saw the thread title OIL BURNING SHED HEATER, and I must admit firstly I thought it may have been about a Land Rover. Some days thats all you think there good for, But you just cant stay mad at them...

Who cares about the LPG tanks as there are plenty more out there for destruction

One thing about this style of oil heater, they're very sensitive to any drafts that may occur in your joinery

I'd say Matt is heading off on a good start from what I can see.

The alternative to the 4 or 5" grinder etc is a 8mm (ish) drill and jig saw for a neat job.

G'Day everyone, it's great to see that the thread is still going.

I bought a new 'puta earlier this year and still haven't transfered all of my links etc. I was out doing some alterations to my oil storage shed the other day and thought that I should really revisit some of my earlier posts.




Here you can see the new IBC that I installed (a little over half full), to give me a total of 4,300 Lts of storage. That will see me through the coldest winter around here with a good margin for safety. These are the cheapest storage solution for most people.

I had to do a bit of reorganising to simplify the pipework, hence the timber and other stuff still laying about.

Hi all
Getting colder here in mudgee and Iv'e been firing up the old oil burner in the late afternoon keeps the shed warm while I have a few home brews and dream on.

Ive built the mother earth and sanders heaters but this is by far the simplest and best. easy to light and clean. Burns clean when up to temp. Burns any brand of oil including oil from our Disco II.

ozzirt if you read this I contacted you last year and was going to send you photo's but lost your email address when I had a system breakdown so here are the photo's for you and every one else here @ aulro

It's a great bit of gear and it's not uncommon for the whole family to end up in the shed for a game of darts and a good roasting.
This will be it's 3rd year of heating. I don't really count the litres of oil cause I don't care, it's free and I generate about half of it's yearly needs anyway

photo's
1 old air compressor tank about 350 L
2 last ditch water seporator
3 the unit in place
4 running hotter than average temp nice glow
5 primary burner pot old lpg cylinder easy to clean

Anyway this is my first post and hope it all goes well and you can all see the pics, I'll be happy to answer any questions, get into a debate about oil burning etc etc

That is just great! It looks a lot like my heater before I did the mods and shortened up the secondary burner tube.
Having a good sized oil tank is important, there's not a lot of joy in having to go outside and top up the tank on a cold wet or windy night

The radiator has me intrigued, are you using it as a heat exchanger with a fan?

About to have take two burning mine, put the flue in last sunday, it was warm enough to sit around, but that was all, simply couldn't feed enough oil in, so no its time to pressure feed the oil, hopefully it'll work, then I'll fit a bulky and transfer pump

Originally Posted by rovercare

About to have take two burning mine, put the flue in last sunday, it was warm enough to sit around, but that was all, simply couldn't feed enough oil in, so no its time to pressure feed the oil, hopefully it'll work, then I'll fit a bulky and transfer pump

You shouldn't need anymore than 3-4 litres an hour. At 4 litres an hour it should reach cherry red heat in the secondary burner and lower firebox within an hour. This is really too hot for inside use and I'm not even sure that it would be safe under all circumstances.



This amount of heat will blister your knuckles at 20cms in only 5-10 seconds, as I found out before I had the extended spindle on my fuel regulating valve.

Originally Posted by ozzirt

You shouldn't need anymore than 3-4 litres an hour. At 4 litres an hour it should reach cherry red heat in the secondary burner and lower firebox within an hour. This is really too hot for inside use and I'm not even sure that it would be safe under all circumstances.



This amount of heat will blister your knuckles at 20cms in only 5-10 seconds, as I found out before I had the extended spindle on my fuel regulating valve.

Mine is a sanders copy, still couldn't get the flow, put pressure pump on, ran it today whilst in and out lcleaning up and lighting real fires

So, I got a few issues, one the door seal needs to be better, which is easy enough, two I need to drive it better as the alloy tundish is now a molten blob in the bottom

I'm not concerned for indoor use, its trying to warm a 72'x30'x14' uninsulated shed, very hard to catch the shed on fire and copious supplies of oil should not be a problem, just getting the unit working right, no matter how much I diddled I couldn't get it to burn clean out the flue, more time needed........and another alloy tundish