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Old 02-05-2010, 03:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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How to get a pellet stove to burn some veggie oil?

I have access especially during the summer to waste lard from the fairs probably several hundred gallons or so.

I am curious what temperature wood pellet stoves operate at and if it is high enough to burn veggie oil?

I would think so since the ash would "wick" the oil and I have found plans for veggie oil candles.

Then the hard part, I believe a small drip tube could be sent down between the heat exchanger to drip on the pot, trouble is how to control it without massive headaches.

My grandfather did this for years in his woodstove, but obviously used motor oil and transmission oil bleck. he even burned small amounts of coal in the stove.

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