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The MEDUSA burner - Waste Oil Heater

Rusty Creek Fabrication

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Hey All, It's finally done! This is my tri-tube forced air floating chamber waste oil heater dubbed The Medusa burner. Below you will find the components/items I purchased from Amazon for this build (paid links!). Keep in mind this is a prototype and will need fine adjustments and refinements. It heats great and gets about 10-12 hours burn time per gallon of oil (idle time 20+ hours). I was sick towards the second half of the video so I apologize for the sniffle. This was an awesome project to do and I look forward to the next one! Hope you Enjoy! Happy New year!

-Jay

COMPONENTS/ITEMS USED IN BUILD/VIDEO:

6 Inch 390cfm Blower for combustion air ----- https://amzn.to/4qyCycG

18" shutter fan for heating (note, this is a 2450cfm fan, not 2950cfm as stated in the video, still MORE than overkill -------- https://amzn.to/4qAYLHg

Variable speed controller for shutter fan -------- https://amzn.to/45oOKES

1/2" Needle Valve ---------- https://amzn.to/4qaVTkK

~~Digital Anemometer ---------~~ https://amzn.to/3Nr3mxf

3/8" copper line for feed ------------ https://amzn.to/49D1xpF

Sight Glass assembly --------- https://amzn.to/49BspGy

Door Glass (wood stove glass) --------- https://amzn.to/3YijO5r

20 Comments

@WendellsWorld 6 months ago

I am amazed.
Thank you for the share.

@TheOrchardJournal 4 months ago

That was a really nice detailed video, I am really impressed, and I will be doing a smaller version this summer. Thanks a lot 🙏

@GuruEthereal369 8 months ago

Just subscribed. Happy to HYPE. Much love from Tarboro, North Carolina. 🤙🤠✌️🖖

@the250mikec 3 months ago

Coolness 👍

@budnixon 7 months ago

Great video... Did a great job talking just enough to keep attention of the viewer going; after all, this is an "educational/instructional" style video., those who need - they can scroll through!
Will hope for the next version of the heater video to be soon!
God Bless and thanks for your time into this, been thinking of building one for my home shop as well!

@Moonlightshadow-lq4fr 8 months ago

That's a damn good heater design you have there.

@chuggins143 8 months ago

Very cool project! Nicely done. 👍

@johnrautenberg205 8 months ago

Maybe add some fins to the heat exchanger to get more heat out of it. And it would probably cool that red hot pipe

@nuclearenergygirl4325 6 months ago

❤happy furnace ❤😂

@avodotcado 6 months ago

expanded steel welded to cap

@VerbalLee 9 months ago

Im viewer 23. Great build bro.

@ybodoN 2 weeks ago (edited)

I'd try helicoïdal pipes, to avoid sharp turns and to make the heat exchange stage more compact...🤔

@karolstruck9822 8 months ago (edited)

I like what you're doing. I've done research and development for the greater part of my adult life. Please do not take this as criticism only as myself trying to help you do better. You should try to equalize the temperature of all three tubes. This will save the life of the single tube. The other thing is you need more heat exchanging going on you're losing too much out your stack. You might be able to do this by welding on pieces of metal onto those round pipes so that they can get rid of their heat faster. And here comes the absolute mind-blowing part. Are you ready add a water injection system into it. Not only will this make it a lot hotter, but will it also be cleaner. They use water and oil injection furnaces to burn very hazardous waste material as the temperatures are extreme. When I say hazardous I mean stuff like anthrax or nerve gas. I absolutely love your work please keep up the good work.

@shawnjohn0369 8 months ago

Wrap the feed line around something warm like tack a tube to the side or something just feed the oil in through that and once it gets warm it'll it'll just continue to work better and better

@penniesfromheaven2511 8 months ago

If you do a lot of fabricating (it looks that way 😂) get yourself a pair of Besse clamps. You’ll throw those c-clamps right in the trash. One handed operation, which is critical for working by yourself. Plus the clamping force is like 10x.

@terrycarter8929 6 months ago

If you put a brick wall around it would increase how long it radiates.

@morkov1 8 months ago (edited)

Good idea, but you will loose a lot of energy out. Efficiency will be not more than 50%. Also do not forget about thermal expansion of metal heat exchangers.

@papasmurf2k3 9 months ago

That's some tremendous run time on a gallon of oil. I built my own hybrid wood & waste heater as well and it appears to put out more heat than yours, but at a much higher consumption. My shop is also bigger, and I wish I could add more oil and actually heat even more haha.
Did you actually weld that diffuser pipe in like you were talking about? I imagine that would make cleaning quite a pain.

@newt2010 8 months ago (edited)

Very cool. I just have one question. Why are you welding with your welder set so cold? That’s why it’s popping and cracking so hard.

Spoke too soon. You just told us why your welds were so bad. That was what polarity. The other Welds look much better. Cheers.