Its cold winter time, so what is the best OU heater design ?

[jeanna]

Hi Bill,
what exact lamps do you use ?
Website address?

I am still looking for lamps or laterns that can be run from saladoil or normal
cooking oil,as heating oil over here is almost more expensive than cheap salat oil
from the supermarket...

I just checked some prices and with delivery you pay around 100 Euros for 100
Liters of heating oil.
Plantoil ( saladoil) can be got already for around 75 cents/Liter.

The design is pretty easy. The main part is that the salad oil needs more air than the oil lamp lampoils do.
All you need to do is make a holder to hold a cotton wick above the oil level such that the bottom of the wick is wet with the oil.  I used a heavy copper wire borrowed from my electronics workbox, made a flat spiral to make it steady and stand up by itself then extended the wire straight up and twirled a loop to hold the top of the wick. It works just fine. Olive oil is nice corn oil is supposed to be terribly smokey. The only time I ever smell the olive oil is when the oil runs out and the light extinguishes in a little puff of smoke.

jeanna

oops sorry
I described the second one that doesn't work so well.

As before extend the wire straight up then stab the wick with wire so it goes straight up along the wire. Make sure the wick is not any more than 1 cm taller than the top of the oil. It will make a big flame but smell too much and burn too much oil and maybe even smoke if there is too much wick.

jeanna

[PhiScience]

Hi all,

  Has anyone built this device?
http://www.fuellessusa.com/FUELLESSHEATER.html
Looks to good to be true.

[helmut]

Hi  PhiScience
This heater in as far as i think ,is known as Frenette Heater in a seperat Thread.
On Youtube are several Vids about this Cavitations Heater.
One Guy from NL (Kampen72) has produced a small version
and demonstratet that it works.(on youtube too)
helmut

[PhiScience]

Hi helmut
Thanks; but the Frenette Heater looks to be a mechanical friction type pump system.
The Fuelless Heater looks like some kind of reaction between the zinc and the fluid within a metal drum.

[helmut]

Hi helmut
Thanks; but the Frenette Heater looks to be a mechanical friction type pump system.
The Fuelless Heater looks like some kind of reaction between the zinc and the fluid within a metal drum.

Hi Phiscience
Yes you are right.
It is not to much work to do a Replikation. Do u have a sketch?