Converting Beckett Oil Furnace Burner for the home Foundry

[@adambergendorff2702]

I loved this wild experimentation, you were totally safety minded, you were doing it outside not in the Kitchen!

[@Wrighmachining]

Hahah , yes i have been banished from the hpuse for experiments . Safe ... well that is perspective :)

[@joelshopefullyhelpfulvideo3010]

I also have a few of these Beckett burners and recently put a waste oil conversion kit in one of them to hopefully use it in a foundry application like you. It was a bit complicated to do but I finally got it working! After watching your video I might also make a diesel version one. Much simpler. Looking forward to seeing you actually melt metal. I haven’t attached mine to a furnace yet to try! Thanks for sharing

[@Wrighmachining]

Haha, I figured I was not alone in having projects in wait in the shop. What conversion kit did you use? I would be I interested in looking at doing one of those to the other blower.

[@joelshopefullyhelpfulvideo3010]

@@Wrighmachining if you google CKburners you will find the website. It can be made homemade. It’s basically just a siphon nozzle added using compressed air added with a tube extender and a differently shaped swirl end. I will try to find the link on KZbin of a guy doing it.

[@joelshopefullyhelpfulvideo3010]

@@Wrighmachining ok I noticed many more videos have popped up about this kit now but I really liked this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmi6lZx9dtqLb9Usi=TxR9CeKTHTHujTe6

[@makingcookingfixing]

I'm just loving your videos man!

[@Wrighmachining]

Thanks buddy . I juat check out your channel as well and subed :)

[@makingcookingfixing]

Thank you very much bud! My channel is not so tight-topic like yours but I do have some interesting things of man f=)(/ng around:-) @@Wrighmachining

[@stevesrt8]

very cool! thats gonna be nice.

[@Wrighmachining]

Man super handy. Just flick the switch.... Poof. Fire 🔥

[@coreydaniels9071]

The equivalent of the guy who swaps a fuel injected engine into a vehicle then slaps a carburetor on it because he thinks it's simpler. All you had to do was jumper the thermostat wires on the controller and hook up power and ground and you'd still have all the safety systems in place.

[@Wrighmachining]

Lol . Now you tell me :)

[@MaineHomeShop]

Your ground wire needs a connection to the metal of the blower - it's protecting nothing currently. Also, never use the back-stab on switches / outlets, it's a very poor connection and those pop out. Use the side screw terminals with appropriate torque. For your use? Probably not a big deal, but if you are wiring in a house? Big deal. Thanks for sharing!

[@Wrighmachining]

Buddy you are absolutely right about the green wire, shoot. How did I miss that . I'll have to run another from that been wire to the body of the blower. Thank you! ! I can see how the back stab could be an issue, especially since I will be putting this in and taking it out of the shop to store it while not in use. Extra movment, generally it will be hooked to a gif pug so I will have to keep an eye on it for issues :)

[@jameshicks6753]

Say my man The green wire is the safety or fault return. So if the motor has a fault??? Your green wire is hooked to the plastic box, yes? So you need to run a second green to the motor housing. This will allow fault current from the motor housing to run down your green wire and blow your circuit breaker. That’s it’s job. Good luck.

[@Wrighmachining]

Dont be sorry :) glad you said some thing . Ya man i dont know what i was thinking . So much fo saftey . Im planning to fix that first thing before i use it again !! Thank you james