Babington Heat Intensity Control

I’ve seen a lot of schemes put forth lately on “improving” the Babington burner. Some might be worthwhile,while others are probably not. There have been too many to catalog them. It was my intention to keep things simple, after all that’s the whole idea of this burner. Simplicity. I gave one good scheme for keeping […]

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Babington Fuel Metering Question

[q]Has anyone tried a float chamber set-up as a method of maintaining the strick pressure constant this burner requires. I have large and small mechanisms to try, the “small” is a float section from an old aluminum sidedraft carb. My fuel is filtered and preheated, so I’m rigging this up tonight. It will give me […]

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Stirling Engine to Power Air Compressor/Pump for Babington

[q]I am in the middle of building my first Babington, and am interested in the amount of electricity that the compressor/oil pump will consume. I have also been reading a little on Stirling engines and wondered whether there was a cheapish one that would be powerful enough to drive the pump & compressor directly. Does […]

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What’s Better Electricity or Propane?

[q]Looking at a house in Fairbanks in Alaska, where it is 9 cents a kwatt. all appliances are 120 vac (ie: dryer,hot water tank heater, fridge, etc.) Except the oil furnace. Would it be wise to change the hot water heater and dryer to propane? Or would I be better off getting a wind mill […]

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Low-cost Information on Development Technologies

I have some goals, and wish to try to enrol the help of the list and/or of list members to achieve these goals: The aim is to expand the quality and quantity of free and/or low-cost information on development technologies (including appropriate technology) which is presently available. There are 2 sources of computer CD info […]

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Turk Burner Evolution?

I am looking into trying to make a Turk burner to retrofit an old coal/wood furnace. I am hoping to have it look more or less like a professional install by the time I am finished. However, right now I am monkeying around with burner designs in CAD and jury-rigging testbeds for the research. I […]

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Water Emulsified Partially in the Oil

What I have experienced as a helpful tip for those not using the oil for fuel in the compressed and internally combusted mode… I have waste coolant that is a water and oil emulsion that has lost its ability to function well as fluid in my machines, but when added to the waste oil that […]

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Steam to Vaporize Waste Oil

I have had some success recently with using a small monotube flash steam generator (coil of 1/8″ tube) to vaporize unfiltered WVO. I have been posting some info and picture files at the AltFuelFurnace yahoo group about a wood pellet stove conversion to wvo. I thought some here might be interested, so here is a […]

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Babington Burner Construction

[q]About making a Babington burner, I want to know, how does one make the semi-microscopic hole at the end of the ball? I made a 1.5 mm hole and the hole was too large. The result was a very coarse spray and fuel over most of my utensils, but fortunately only the can of fuel […]

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