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Originally Posted by rmay635703
The "creamy" stuff liquifies at 75 degrees or so, needless to say it will sit gravity feed style above the flat surface of the stove which isn't hot but does get around 90 degrees or so. So it is liquid, no worries.
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Hey, I spoke with a friend of mine that has a corn/coal stove. He also burns waste oils (food oils, not petroleum).
He has a shoe-box sized (think kid's shoes) metal box that he got from a dumpster dive that sits inside the firebox, just a few inches above the bottom. Inside, there is a tube that feeds the box oils, and in the bottom, there is a grate with lava rocks on it.
Like I suggested earlier, the lava rocks soak up the oils, and the fire slowly heats the rocks until the oil expands out of the pores and burns.
He says he doens't get smoke from running with just the rocks lit when he doesn't have any biomass to burn (he doesn't burn coal, either. If he doesn't have any oils or biomass, the house gets very cold during the winter.)
Unfortunately, he doesn't own a camera, and uses the computer at his local library, as his home doesn't have electrical service. I envy him at times.