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Old 02-07-2010, 01:20 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
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.
My fire box is much smaller as my stove is a midget compared to his Shoe size box is about the size of my entire fire box! Except that it is quite deep for a shoe box.

I would probably have to suspend a lava rock or two above the point of flames and ash to dupliate his method.
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