Mother's Waste Oil Heater

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[1] Start construction of waste oil stove by chalking off and cutting our access door on the side of the stripped water heater tank. [2] All cuts-whether torched or sawed-should be filed smooth. [3] The stack holes on tank's top are the next chalked and... [4] cut. [5] Tank is then turned upside down so the support flange for stove's burner assembly can be mounted and... [6] the furnace's legs bolted to the container's bottom. [7] Here's all the hardware for the burner assembly which, like everything else... [8] justg bolts together. [9] The chimney stack is pushed at least six inches down into its hole and secured with bolts and angle iron tabs. [10] A funnel is made from some of the junked water heater's sheet metal skin and... [11] fitted to the lower end of intake stach, which is then... [12] pushed through access door and wedged up through its hole in the top of the converted tank. [13] The copper tubing fuel feeder is then wrapped around the chimney stack and its end positioned over the intake stack. [14] A 4-inch, 90 degree elbow is fitted to a hole in the side of a 12-inch-long section of 8-inch stovepipe and this ""pre-heater"" is positioned over the feeder tubing [15] Although not absolutely necessary, a spacer ring can be bent up from hanger strap and... [16] used to center pre-heater stovepipe on chimney stack. [17] ""Pre-heater/intake stack"" assembly is locked into position with a simple clamp. [18] A collar -- cut from the old water heater's sheet metal skin -- can be added to cover the clamp. [19] View of inside of partially completed furnace door. [20] Salvaged tank's heating element holes are sealed with 1/8- inch steel plates.

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