This is an extension from the "heating WVO with WVO' discussion (HERE), we were highacking that discussion so I started this one, This specific babington unit discussion starts here on page 11.

The U.S. military is now required to run EVERYTHING on JP-8 jet fuel, from airplanes to food heaters, due to this they are switching away from the gasoline burning M-2 kitchen food heater to what appears to now be called the "MBU" unit, it uses a small 1/2 G/H babington style burner.

The following links indicate this burner has been used for over 6 years in the field with NO serious accidents. The burner is small and reliable and apparently has been used to heat homes in Europe since the late 1980"s, sure sounds interesting to me.

General MBU deployment info article.

Army babington burner.

Airtronic babington burner.

airtronic home page.

121 page PDF, pages 24 through 37 is info about the testing of 10 airtronic babington heaters used to heat homes over a winter.

You can finally find some of the babington burner units (MBUs) as surplus:
here

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Originally posted by cstoker:
You can finally find some of the babington burner units (MBUs) as surplus:
here

Is the Ebay unit a Babbington? Is it made by Airtronics? It looks very different then the ones here:

http://babingtontechnology.com/

Oops, I think the MBU is probably using a siphon nozzle, upon wading through some of the 344 page manual.

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Originally posted by cstoker:
Oops, I think the MBU is probably using a siphon nozzle, upon wading through some of the 344 page manual.

Do you have a hard copy or an online manual? If online, can you provide a link? thx

The pdf manual I found is here.

I worked for Babington technologies for several years. The MBU does NOT USE A BABINGTON BURNER. The MBU is the result of the Army's failed attempt to replace the gasoline powered M2 burner, which was used primarily in the M59 field cooking range. The MBU uses an unreliable, dirty, and noisy siphon feed burner which is incapable of running on anything other than JP8 (kerosene). The Airtronic (Babington) burner is used in the Marine Corp. TRHS and has enjoyed successful use and deployment w/ the Marines Since 1995. The same burner can be used to also power many other appliances including the M59 range. This is a versatile burner that can run on many distillate fuels even with modest amounts of water and contaminates in the fuel.

Welcome aboard Gary! Are Airtronic Babington home heaters available in the US? If so, what are the brand names?

Welcome Gary, please contribute any info you might have, so far you are the best, and only, possible source for more than the companies advertising info on the Airtronic burners, they have not responded to direct email enquieries.

In the first post in this discussion I linked to a 121 page document refering to some independant Airtronic testing, this was a research summery from 2003 that was posted on the websit for the "National oilheat research aliance", the link no longer works but the mainpage for the NORA is HERE, nora-oilheat.org, the original document link was -- http://nora-oilheat.org/PDF/OilheatSymposium2003c.pdf, it may still be in there archives someplace, I will do a bit of searching for it.