its galsss and beat the heack out of it wiaht something like a piece
of rebar, and why woulddd you want to take it out, as its inert,
buck,
its sameeeee makeup as old ceramic cookkkpot, glasss over steel, any
denting poppps the glass offff but why would u,,,, buck,
Because it's going to get real hot!
Can anyone tell me 1) what the lining inside a natural gas fired water
heater tank is made of, and 2) are there any known ways of removing it
without damaging the tank beneath?
I am in the very early stages of helping a neighbor build a waste oil
heater. He has a surplus of these tanks, but very little in the way of
money. Since I have already built one, and it is still working just fine I
agreed to help him build his.
Is that a Mother Earth News heater Mike? This one:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me4.html
Mother Earth: Waste Oil Heater
If so, which design did you/will you use? - the original, with no
power required, or the new-fangled one some of us have been working
on, with a forced air supply?
It's said the original design does not burn hot enough for safe and
clean combustion of modern lube oil, which has much higher burning
temps than it did 25 years ago when the heater was designed. It seems
though that some people who've built them don't agree with that, they
find it works just fine. What do you think?
I don't know about this because we've never tried it with waste lube
oil. We have one built to the original design, here:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me7.html
Journey to Forever's Waste Oil Heater
But we've only ever used it with WVO, as we'd intended, and it works
fine. We're using it right now. It makes all the difference to
keeping this old house warm.
It doesn't burn hot enough for clean combustion of the glycerin
by-product from making biodiesel though - it does burn it, but it
quickly gets gunged up. This is why we've been working on the
forced-air design. We should be testing it soon.
Best wishes
Keith
All these plans are on temporary hold though
because neither of us genius's knew that these tanks were lined. Oh well,
plenty of time for more planning and perhaps one more beer. Any info or
guidance will be greatly appreciated.
AntiFossil
Mike Krafka
Minnesota USA
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