Oil furnace build

[Pete O]

Gave the thing a bit of a firing today, more for the heck of it than anything although Colin's book advises a low-temp firing to dry it out, given that it has been a month since casting the refractory I'm not sure this was necessary but here it is:
set up
   
some of our precious home heating fuel (firewood) being wasted
   
and I actually got some oil burning later on
   

It was very evident that I need adjustable feeds for both the air and the oil, the throttle on the leaf blower was not sensitive enough and dribblig oil into a funnel from a jug is just not going to cut it. So, still a little work to do before anything is melted.

I think I would like to set up a gas burner as a starting fuel, burning wood results in embers being blown everywhere out of the exhaust, would not be a good thing here in summer. Will have to look into how to set up a gas burner.