Mother's Waste Oil Heater

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And thus it was that Dennis—while rummaging around looking for something to spray on (and then, of course, peel off) MOTHER's new waste oil burner—found that sample can of Thurmalox 270 hidden away on the back of a shelf. "Might as well try it," he reasoned. "I know it won't work ...but then, nothing else will either and—besides—it'll save us some time chasing around looking for something else that'll fail."

Imagine Dennis' surprise (and every one else's!), then, when the properly sprayed and properly cured Thurmalox 270 not only didn't peel or burn off MOTHER's new stove during its extensive tests ... but didn't even crack, craze, or discolor! Hey! These Dampney guys know what they're doing!

A fast phone call to the company's Massachusetts factory turned up some interesting facts: [1] Thurmalox 270 is different and works the way it does because it's silicone-based, [2] the paint has been specifically formulated to withstand constant temperatures of 1,200°F, and [3] it's so good that many commercial stove manufacturers use it to paint their units at the factory.

So: You can buy other "heat-resistant" (whatever that means) paints manufactured by other companies for $2.00 a can . . . and then watch them vaporize or peel off like a hog with the mange the first time you build a fire in your homemade stove. Or you can shell out $6.00 a can for Thurmalox 270 and—unless you're careless enough to scratch your burner—never have to paint your spiffylooking furnace again.

Personally, we're sold on taking the Thurmalox 270 route and—if you can't find it at your local retail paint or hardware store—you can try writing directly to Dampney's Massachusetts factory. And tell 'em MOTHER sent you!

How to Light and Use Your Waste Oil Stove

Saturate the asbestos in the lower frying pan with kerosene. Then loosely crumple several feet of toilet paper and place it on the sand in the back (under the flue) of the burner's main chamber. Light the paper and the soaked asbestos and lock the access door in place.

Now wait until the rapidly burning paper has started a draft for the blazing kerosene and the kerosene has thoroughly heated the burner assembly. Then open the valve on your waste oil line (which has been plumbed up according to good fuel line practice) so that anywhere from 3/4 to one quart of the oil (if you want maximum heat) can drip into the burner each hour.

That's !t! As long as you keep feeding used oil to this stove it'll keep burning it with as clean and as non-polluting a flame as those costly furnaces which consume that expensive "real" fuel oil.

One light-up can last for weeks . . , even keep you going alt winter!

WARNING: NEVER ATTEMPT TO RELIGHT A HOT STOVE WITH KEROSENE, DO NOT OPEN THE ACCESS DOOR WHILE THE STOVE IS IN OPERATION, AND NEVER USE GASOLINE OR OTHER HIGHLY FLAMMABLE FUEL TO START YOUR STOVE!

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