oil burner

[zippy1wood]

I have a becket oil burner I thougth i would put in my 275 gallon homeade
evap,just to try does anyone know if the flame blast right in or should
I deflect the flame with a plate to hit the pan Thanks

[Grade "A"]

Most people put a plate in to get the heat to go were they need it, instead of the heat going up the stack and not hitting the pans. I made mine out of fire brick.

[Haynes Forest Products]

What type of pans do you have? do you have brick in the arch? do you have flues in the pans. I would block off part of the arch. You need to establish a combustion chamber and then allow the hot gasses to flow up and under the remaining pan. Just blasting the gun at a steel plate and having the gasses go helter skelte is a waste of oil/heat.

[zippy1wood]

does the oil burner give you a good boil,and how much per hr. gallon?
thanks I mean oil use

[KenWP]

Some of the figures I have read say it takes 3 liters of oil to make one liter of syrup. So you would have to times that by 3.785 to get to gallons. Thats what the fact sheet from one of the suppliers says .Thats with modern equipment and all the bells and whistles.