Updated 05/10/08
The Turk Burner Project
I've been interested in this burner for awhile so over one day I made a working Turk.
This required a visit for an hour down to the local scrap yard to hunt for the elusive parts.
These were--- A piece of 4 inch diameter stainless steel pipe about 6 inches long, a piece of
3 inch pipe about a foot long and an old fire extinguisher plus some bits of stainless steel.
In addition to this two PC fans were bought and an old 8 inch diameter stainless steel cooking pan
was found lying around at home.
The top of the fire extinguisher was removed, the handle from the pan was cut off and they
were welded together, not a pretty site ! The top of the fire extinguisher was cut so the 4 inch pipe fitted.
The 4 inch stainless steel pipes bottom then had a piece of stainless steel welded over it then 75 holes
were drilled in it 2 inches from the bottom in rows of five with half inch spacing.
The 3 inch pipe was then cut to fit tangentially to the pan and welded on followed by the making
of an end plate for it to hold the PC fan.
When it was completed I lit a small piece of paper, dropped it in the bottom, poured a little veg oil in
then turned the fan on. All worked well but a small piece of steel was inserted to deflect the air
so it came out of the holes equally and a speed control type fan was fitted to control air flow.
Below is the burner alight and 2 videos. Temperature reached about 300°C.
Night time drip fed using veg oil Day time drip fed using veg oil
Night time using veg oil Night time using waste engine oil
More forced air is required to eliminate smoke when using waste engine oil.
The residue consisted of ash comprised of the paper used to initially start the burner.
During the beginning of October 2008 a boiler was made to test on the burner, the results came out like this.
Over a 2.5 hour run with water in a continuous loop but there was probably at least a 50% heat loss.
Starting with 12°C ambient water temperature,68°C finish.
Fuel was waste motor oil, consumption was approximately 0.5 to 0.75 litres per hour with little if any smoke.
Here's a quick video of it in action.