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Electric and NatGas are preferred methods of causing home heating in AK given the cost of transport and storage for personal use. Most villages get one, maybe two barges of products each year. You need to plan out your shopping list months in advance to make sure your annual supply of

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Interesting. Never seen a home brewed one, but I can’t think it would be that difficult. -D > On Apr 16, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > But that was an approved unit. I am thinking more of the DIY ones that people > show on Youtube. > > RB > > On 16/04/2020

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:13:21 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > I don’t recall, but this one was very clean burning. > > This is the place that makes them: > > https://www.cleanburn.com/clean-burn-products/waste-oil-furnaces/ >

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But that was an approved unit. I am thinking more of the DIY ones that people show on Youtube. RB On 16/04/2020 11:57 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: We had no issues with the insurance company. -D On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: If I had a waste oil

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Pennzoil advertises that their synthetic motor oil is made from natural gas. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 4:21 PM fmiser via Mercedes wrote: > > Randy wrote: > > > Anyone know if used synthetic oil burns the same as > > non-synthetic in a waste oil heater? > > Yes. Burns the same. > >

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> Randy wrote: > Anyone know if used synthetic oil burns the same as > non-synthetic in a waste oil heater? Yes. Burns the same. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options

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Agreed. And I don’t recall the walls being insulated, but I do know the ceiling was. Big clear span steel building. Either way, it definitely made for a nice place to work on your car when it was winter. You didn’t have to wear your Carharts and fingerless gloves. -D > On Apr 16, 2020, at

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Even "rarely open" probably equates to way more airflow than an average house gets. A regular person door presents a pretty small hole compared to a garage door... -Curt On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 3:57:58 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Absolutely. We had a 20’ roll up door

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Absolutely. We had a 20’ roll up door on both ends of the shop, but it was rarely open in the winter unless a truck was coming in or going out. We kept all of our service vehicles inside at all times. -D > On Apr 16, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > > Shops usually aren't insulated

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Shops usually aren't insulated all that well and have doors open for way more significant amounts of time than a house would. -Curt On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 2:51:31 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: These things suck it down, believe me. I think we had a 200,000 BTU model

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AFAIK these days most "synthetic oil" is just highly refined conventional oil so it shouldn't matter.I remember somebody (Marshall?) suggesting that while a quart of conventional oil in the fuel tank was a good thing, that synthetic didn't burn well and was a bad idea. Of course I've heard a

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Yes - the smallest one burns up to 1 GPH - 55 gallons would not last long. https://www.cleanburn.com/clean-burn-products/waste-oil-furnaces/cb-140/ On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:51 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > These things suck it down, believe me. I think we had a

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These things suck it down, believe me. I think we had a 200,000 BTU model and would go through 500+ gallons of oil in a season, possibly more (this is in central Indiana). Understand that we were generating waste oil on an almost daily basis, probably collecting as much as 1,000 gallons or more

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I seriously thought about it when we moved here - I have a 2000 sq. ft. hangar that I work in year round. However, the last two winters haven't been cold enough to have warranted having one. It is insulated and only got down to 42°F this winter. I generate more waste oil now with the airplane,

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We had no issues with the insurance company. -D > On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > If I had a waste oil heater, I would likely have done so since most of the > used oil I would have is synthetic. I don't generate enough used oil to heat > much and I

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If I had a waste oil heater, I would likely have done so since most of the used oil I would have is synthetic. I don't generate enough used oil to heat much and I suspect my insurance company would not be amused but the whole idea is tempting. RB On 16/04/2020 11:48 AM, OK Don via Mercedes

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Try it and let us know :-) On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:17 AM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Anyone know if used synthetic oil burns the same as non-synthetic in a > waste oil heater? > > RB > > On 16/04/2020 11:13 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > > I don’t

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Anyone know if used synthetic oil burns the same as non-synthetic in a waste oil heater? RB On 16/04/2020 11:13 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: I don’t recall, but this one was very clean burning. This is the place that makes them:

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I don’t recall, but this one was very clean burning. This is the place that makes them: https://www.cleanburn.com/clean-burn-products/waste-oil-furnaces/ -D > On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes >

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I remember old waste oil heaters, got a lot of smoke out of them.  I wonder what kind of filters and nozzles they used in those things --FT On 4/16/20 7:38 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Makes sense. I would think a lot of people would use waste oil for heating. In the generator service

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Maybe cut it with heating oil. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:38 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Makes sense. > > I would think a lot of people would use waste oil for heating. In the > generator service business I used to be in we had an oil furnace in the > shop that

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Makes sense. I would think a lot of people would use waste oil for heating. In the generator service business I used to be in we had an oil furnace in the shop that was designed to burn waste motor oil, and our annual collection of waste oil was often enough to get us through the winter for a

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There are no facilities able to bother with waste oil from what I can tell. There should be somebody who should, but the land area is too great and producers so spread out, there just ain’t a way to do it profitably. I took an old folks class last fall, and we did tours of waste

[MBZ] Question for Clay

I just got a promotional email from Auto Zone about the things they’re doing to assist customers and continue business operations, one of which is accepting waste oil. Something that sort of jumped out at me in the fine print was a statement that they don’t recycle oil in Alaska. Any idea why,