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Originally Posted by thatguitarguy
My knowledge of pellet stoves is that they burn hot, but they are touchy because the mechanism that slowly feeds pellets to the burn chamber can easily wear out or get jammed, and they can be expensive to replace parts. Much more of a headache than a woodstove, and as far as feeding it oil of any kind - my feeling would be that it's too dangerous to mess around with. Get a dedicated oil burner that's meant to use fluid fuel instead of solid fuel.
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The mech is hi on the side above the 1" thick pot.
My estimate is that it would work fine, I do not plan on having a lot of oil going on the pellets, only a very small drip from a 1/16" tube. I would want to feed the oil at a rate much much lower than it would be consumed.
And as a note, I have burned old dogfood, corn, rancid nuts (cashews) nut shells, soybeans and a lot of other HI fat content items when they were cheap/free without issue, which Is why I would think the pellet stove with its internal blower and thick burning pot would handle a little oil.