what does everyone think of using waste oil to fire an evaporator. I am considering using waste car oil filtered and mixed 50/50, or 60/40 with kerosene. I know there must be enviromental concerns, and how much altering needs to be done to oil burner to get it to burn. I cant see where if your arch is good and tight it shoud effect taste any more than normal fuel oil.

i found an interesting article from the new york times in which a large producer in vermont switched to burning old vegitable oil. the was a cost in it at first but now gets the oil for free or very little. Mythbusters were able to run a diesiel car on nothing but filtered vegitable oil, so maybe something the maple industry will be looking at soon.

i added the link to the new york times article.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/bu...prod=permalink