Stop in for a cup of coffee

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toolmanmike said:
Bean and ham hock? Yes please. View attachment 1716322491
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You can cheat and use this ham instead of Hocks. The ham is good but it is loaded with salt, fat and cholesterol. I think I'll look for hocks instead.
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Sublime one said:
Small deck, big deck? Where o where is a Karl when ya need one!
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I didn't do anything with the deck today.... Mowed leaves and changed oil in the Mazda. Then took 5 1gallon jugs of used oil down the road and dropped off. Theres a farm I assume uses it for heating. They have a big open plastic tote you can just set them in by the road. Easy peasy, out of my garage...
 
zkx14 said:
I didn't do anything with the deck today.... Mowed leaves and changed oil in the Mazda. Then took 5 1gallon jugs of used oil down the road and dropped off. Theres a farm I assume uses it for heating. They have a big open plastic tote you can just set them in by the road. Easy peasy, out of my garage...
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Yeah, some days it's best to just leave your deck alone
 
zkx14 said:
I didn't do anything with the deck today.... Mowed leaves and changed oil in the Mazda. Then took 5 1gallon jugs of used oil down the road and dropped off. Theres a farm I assume uses it for heating. They have a big open plastic tote you can just set them in by the road. Easy peasy, out of my garage...
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Yeah. I've seen those used oil heaters for sale now and again
 
zkx14 said:
Not sure what they do different than a regular heating oil burner. Guessing a different jet size, but biggest thing is it must be dirty AF to run. :eek:
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A lot of shops use them here. They have a filter for the waste oil and it is under pressure. It sprays the oil into the heat chamber and blows air into it like a supercharger. Adjusted correctly they burn pretty clean.
 
toolmanmike said:
A lot of shops use them here. They have a filter for the waste oil and it is under pressure. It sprays the oil into the gmheat chamber and blows air into it like a supercharger. Adjusted correctly they burn pretty clean.
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How are they affected by synthetic vs conventional?
 
zkx14 said:
We could really use some rain. Friggin dust storm running the mower. Leaves mulched up to nothing, but damn!
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Of course I don't do myself any favors. Even thought about putting a mask on, but after wearing for covid so long, I hate them and don't wear when I really should. LOL
 
zkx14 said:
How are they affected by synthetic vs conventional?
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I don't know for sure. Synthetic is still flammable isn't it? I often wondered about brake fluid and the like that get's added into the waste oil.
 
zkx14 said:
Of course I don't do myself any favors. Even thought about putting a mask on, but after wearing for covid so long, I hate them and don't wear when I really should. LOL
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I have been blowing dirt out of my nose after the last few mowing's. We die get a inch and a half of rain a couple days ago. More to come next week. Hope you guys out east get some too.
 
toolmanmike said:
I don't know for sure. Synthetic is still flammable isn't it? I often wondered about brake fluid and the like that get's added into the waste oil.
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I guess they are all flammable. Just figuring they are likely going to burn a little different. Figure it is not nearly as consistant as heating oil. Must adjust somehow so it aint running too lean or dumping smoke.
 
zkx14 said:
I guess they are all flammable. Just figuring they are likely going to burn a little different. Figureit must adjust somehow so it aint running too lean or dumping smoke.
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Most of them have close enough combustion temperatures it doesn’t matter. I’d be more curious about high temp hydraulic oils and some of the thicker oils than synthetic vs conventional burning
 
zkx14 said:
I guess they are all flammable. Just figuring they are likely going to burn a little different. Figureit must adjust somehow so it aint running too lean or dumping smoke.
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One of my small shops had a small drip heater that really worked well in their 2 stall shop. It would drip oil into a firepot that looked like a cast iron skillet. A fan would blow the heat out into the shop from around the fire box. Simple and efficient.
 
dukeboy440 said:
Most of them have close enough combustion temperatures it doesn’t matter. I’d be more curious about high temp hydraulic oils and some of the thicker oils than synthetic vs conventional burning
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I guess most of it gets blended by the time it hits the burner. But yeh, would be pretty extreme if it was mostly a thin hyd oil and hit a slug of gear oil...
 
zkx14 said:
I didn't do anything with the deck today.... Mowed leaves and changed oil in the Mazda. Then took 5 1gallon jugs of used oil down the road and dropped off. Theres a farm I assume uses it for heating. They have a big open plastic tote you can just set them in by the road. Easy peasy, out of my garage...
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I called to have the Oil Recycler come and get my used oil. Have 2 , 55 gal drums. Used to be, they paid you for it. Now they want $75 to pick it up... :mob:
 
zkx14 said:
I guess they are all flammable. Just figuring they are likely going to burn a little different. Figureit must adjust somehow so it aint running too lean or dumping smoke.
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Waist oil will burn in the older diesel cars and trucks and no smoke but it will run hotter than diesel fuel. I've tried everything in an engine even made my own fuel.
Use to take canola seed and had a press to take the oil out of the seed and run that in all my diesel rigs, smells like French fries out the exhaust. I tried heating gas or oil to the point of vapor and running an engine on fumes and it works fine but I'm not one to figure out how to set timing and carb proper and overheated a few small engines. Ran crude oil in my car when I worked in the oil fields but that was the really good crude that our grand dads would call drip gas.
 
Icetech said:
This one was $129 i think.. 5000w.. i woulda got the 7500w but that needs a 40a and i'm not running a new line, i'm gonna tap into my compressor plug below it.. i need to pick up some 10ga romex though.. can't find any around my house..


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Had a similar heater. Didnt like the dust in the shop barely made it a year. The one i just hung has sealed bearings.
 
Tooljunkie said:
Had a similar heater. Didnt like the dust in the shop barely made it a year. The one i just hung has sealed bearings.
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well.. will see how it holds up.. i'm hoping a lot of my dust making days are behind me now... and just grease/oil ahead.. sooo tired of grinding/sanding ****:)
 
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