Upgraded to Oil "Tankenstein" Evaporator

[newmod]

Last year I evaporated with a block arch and thought "this is great"....... Nephew and I threw together ( 6 hours ) this Tankenstein. Boiled down 30 gallons yesterday and thought I was in heaven , not boiling on block arch. I can just imagine what it is like using an actual evaporator.
Going to do a little fine tuning like fire brick, transfer valves, and longer copper preheater coil. Everything worked great. I don't post much, but thanks to all the people who post their info on here. I wouldn't be having this much fun if it wasn't for this site and youtube.
Newmod9110

[sweetmoomoo]

oil tank evap looks good, I built one this year and boiled down 45 gals.yesterday. put the fire blanket and brick in and your gph will go up.have fun

[Ausable]

Hey! Cool! How do You feed the oil - with a torch and air to atomize the oil? I'm curious and thanks.

[newmod]

Ausable, It is a wood fired evaporator built out of an old fuel oil tank "tankenstein"

[Ausable]

Gad Zooks! I misread. My Arch comes from the same Family as Yours. I wonder if they are related? Hey! It has been a very long Winter.

[maplestudent]

I like the name Tankenstein.

[optionguru]

Looks great. Wrap your preheater coil with some insulation and a piece of the next size up stove pipe, makes it transfer a lot more heat. Have fun.