Just a quick datapoint. I have been running my pot stove with Biodiesel. Heats and fires up just as well and runs with less soot. These old stoves are known for soot build up and the biodiesel is running soot free enough that the soot accumulation from regular diesel is drying and flaking off the inside and I can see the metal of the pot rings(they used to be coked up with soot).

PS: You younger members probably don't remember these but us older folks do. See the image for reference. They make great shop and outbuilding heaters today but they were quite common in smaller homes in rural areas post WWII up until central heating air became common in the 60s and 70s. They run hot(250-300 dgrees wide open) and usually cost less than a hundred for a working model if you can find one.

Just wanted to share the this little heating with Biodiesel data point

NCDiesel

That's a very nice unit. That would help me quite a bit in the new housing for my reactor.
Does it vent outdoors or into the room? I don't know much about how these work, but very willing to learn.

Thanks for sharing, great picture.

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Originally posted by biowell:
Thanks for sharing, great picture.

Brings back memories doesn't it? I had nearly forgot about them when I ran across this 3 or 4 years ago.

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That's a very nice unit. That would help me quite a bit in the new housing for my reactor.
Does it vent outdoors or into the room? I don't know much about how these work, but very willing to learn.

They do require a chimmney. I have an 8" pipe that you can't see in the picture because it is black and black window obscures it. I am including a couple shots i just took so you can see it, and the inside, better.

It requires electricity for the ennclosed fan. They also have a carburetor and a small system of jets to create a little "bowl of fire" for lack of a better way to explain it. In light mode, a film of oil covers the bottom. You throw in a lit piece of tissue paper to set fire to the film and then set the control to the level of heat you want (throttle for the oil). It will start burning in in earnest within a few minutes.


NCDiesel

Very nice. Now I want one.

Don't know if it is still available but I found this while snooping Google:

FREE SIEGLER OIL STOVE, with blower. Good working condition, you move it. 336-384-9072. (Ashe) 13
Northern NC Southern Tn area.

Sounds like just the ticket for a NC/VA/TN biodiesler needing a shop stove...

NCDiesel

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Originally posted by Legal Eagle:
Very nice. Now I want one.

Don't know if it is still available but I found this while snooping Google:

FREE SIEGLER OIL STOVE, with blower. Good working condition, you move it. 336-384-9072. (Ashe) 13
Northern NC Southern Tn area.

I have one of those.They are getting harder to find.

Apparently there is someone around here that is selling reconditioned ones, but I only got as far as a preliminary investigation going on that, but will be doing a follow up for sure.
Question: Where is the feed line and storage tank? Does it gravity feed or is there a pump?
(ok, two questions)

legal eagle ;seperate storage tank. fed through a copper line to a regulator; john

I gotta get me one of those, they are neat.

There are at least two companies out there making these stoves. I have been thinking of adding one for next winter to my house!



http://www.medfordfuel.com/deville.htm

BiodieselWharehouse;
I particularly like the "How to make biodiesel" page, a mirror of JtF. This doesn't help your credibility any, you do realize that?
Musta missed this one I guess.Biodiesel Wharehouse is even listed there, sheesh.

A friend of mine picked up one of those from a job it was in the trash pile. He was going to use it in his shop but changed his mind and he said I can have it. Its actually wider but not as tall. My question is I have no idea at this time how it works can I repost in the future when I get it "shop not done yet", and will it run on b100? I originally thought of running on crankcase oil but I think a turk burner will be better for that.

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Originally posted by BiodieselWarehouse.com:
There are at least two companies out there making these stoves. I have been thinking of adding one for next winter to my house!



http://www.medfordfuel.com/deville.htm

How convenient, that first link is right in my town.

For those in the UK, these are attractive models which meet modern reg.s. I've got no connection with them, I just think they look really nice.

Should do, at around £1000.00, or US$1750.00 ....

Oil heaters

I worked in a heating place for about seven years throug the 80's and 90's, selling everything from wood stoves to gas and oil stoves, and I can tell you the old timers would always come in asking if we sold the Sieglers or Warm Mornings. They both were dead and buried, in a business sense, but many are still out there. A company called Perfection still made a lightweight stove in different sizes that runs on exactly the same principle, but I haven't kept up in the last decade. There was a place in Lynchburg, VA that distributed them.
Ben

there is one on ebay right now
http://cgi.ebay.com/Siegler-Feul-Oil-Heater-Furnace-Sho...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I have an old Siegler oil burner. It is the heat for my house. Unfortunately, it's still running diesel,and not very efficiently. Since you all have picked up an interest in these perhaps you can clue me in on the inner workings or tell me where I can get information on how to adjust the thing to work more efficiently. Any clues greatly appreciated. With stove oil at $3.40 gal maybe I should start investigating biodiesel!

There is a version of this type stove that is available from new-old-stock, it is a heavy sheetmetal barrel-type stove made for heating military tents or whatever. The stove body has been around since WW2, in it's simplest use it can be used to burn solid fuel but there is also an oil burner insert kit. The stove is on sale here, for $89.00, at Coleman's military surplus They also sell the oil burner insert kit here, for $49.95.

Happened across this link today to an oil stove that states it's compatible with bio-diesel.

Kuma Stoves

No sign of a Canadian dealer though.