I've run mine for 3 winters, so I'm about to pull it apart for a clean out. One thing I would say is, bin that green fuel line and swap it out for the much more rigid white pipe. That green pipe is flexible enough to expand with every pulse of the fuel pump, therefore reducing the delivery pressure at the burner. You can also pull out the mesh atomiser screen around the glow plug and clean that, as well as the tiny feed hole next to it.

Love the bloopers at the end

AWESOME VOICE FOR THE VIDEO , WOW THE UNIT WAS AMAZINGLY CLEAN FOR YEARS OF RUNNING , GREAT VIDEO THANK YOU FOR SHARING .

Thanks for sharing! Routine maintenance is so important especially when there's combustion involved. I'm thinking this summer when the prices on em drop I'll pick up one of these for my garage.

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Agreed on routine maintenance. Turns out not much maintenance needed on this thing. Or, I just lucked out with this particular unit. Either way, glad folks are finding the content helpful. Thanks for watching!

I took my diesel heater apart for cleaning. After a few blasts of air, I was heading back to my work bench and I lost my grip, The exchanger hit the floor and broke the glow plug. Then I found a replacement glow plug with gaskets on eBay for just under $20. Seller said shipped from USA and the US Mail is slow but not as slow as it took to arrive. Obviously the seller gets his supplies from China and then sends them to you. Anyway, My heater was on my work bench disassembled for three and a half weeks, I forgot which connector went where. Thanks for the help Tom!

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

LOL! A benefit of recording stuff...I can always refer back to it and answer the question "where the f*** did this go again?" LOL

Thanks Tom for the video. I was just putting my heater away for the season and thinking about how dirty it must be inside. Now I know...lol. Keep doing what you're doing man!

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Yeah, I'm happy with how well it's held up so far and encouraged by how clean it has run. Hoping yours is functioning the same. If so, you should be good to go :)

Nice one Tom. The burn settings must be spot on.

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Must be. Happy with what I found and how it's performed for sure.

@nohrtillman8734

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Especially to get the mix right on diesel fuel. Although the kerosene space heaters used to burn clean and they weren’t rocket science either.

So. . Tom. Go back on THIS video to about 3:08 and look closely at the glow plug wire routing. then go to 10:48 and notice that the new plug and the loop is not the same path. You might want to go back and fix that or you might melt the insulation on the glow plug wire and burn up the control board when it sends power to the metal chamber. This is one of those better to be safe than sorry as it is a combustion chamber after all. According to everything I studied on these heaters you can run kerosene, diesel, you can mix either with used motor oil at up to 50/50 mix even. But to keep the chamber clean they say to run it on high with a pure kerosene fuel for about 15 minutes. It burns hot and does a oven self clean thing. I mention this because running used motor oil will carbon that thing up and the trick to doing that is to then run it on high for 15 with kero to clean up the mess. I ran 6 year old kero in it no issues. But I have not yet attempted the 50 50 mix with used motor oil. And finally . .the heater runs via a "pulse" injector. That green fuel line is not letting that pulse function properly. The fuel line from the pump to the chamber should be the hard plastic so that the injector is actually delivering what the injector thinks it is. I think you have been running lean all this time. Bonus note. From what I have seen, the 50 50 mix not only cuts you fuel cost in half, the heater actually runs a lot hotter with the oil!!!!

That was nice-- great video

@TomtheDilettante

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

enjoyed the bloopers at the end, that deserves a drink. Hope you do a video on A/C maintenance for the summer.

Great video mate yep amazing that heater is working spot on u couldn't ask 4 better , gives us all faith in them thank you 👍

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Thanks much! Yeah, for the price, I've been happy with these units. Sure they're imported and not top of the line, but for what it is and what I need it for it does the job.

Nice video, comfortable to watch.

The first video without a lot of .pouha; thanks

I have one exactly like that. Got to do mine now because, you know, it’s cold now and I’m freezing 😆 Great job on videos you do. You are a natural with a great voice for it. I get a vibe of Captain Kirk and Juan Brown from blancolirio channel from you 👍

Dont forget Catayltic screen/Catalyst. make sure its all the way to the bottom.

Looks like fun Tom

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

It's always fun to take things apart...until you forget how to put it back together again at least. Then it's a different kind of "fun" LOL

@temporarilyoffline

Жыл бұрын

@@TomtheDilettante very true

Love this channel

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Thanks much!

I've heard a little silicone spray will keep the gaskets from sticking.

Your heater looks great inside. Many do not! Lol

Buttttt. You should have changed the igniter screen while you were in there. It wicks fuel into the glowpin chamber, and it tends to carbon foul over time.

One last thought as I was enjoying the blooper run. . . .you might want to look into the chinese cheap ultrasonic stainless steal cleaner units. Given your projects I can only tell you I should have bought one of those cleaners years ago. You might have one, but if not. . .you sir should look into one. Love your content.

Man, that was impressive, but I have to say before you even started I was thinking that thing shouldn't need taken apart and cleaned for at least 5 or 6 years :) Oh well, at least now we know.

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Turns out you were right...didn't need anything at all. For some reason I had it in my head that because it was a cheap import unit that it would not run very efficiently. I'm glad I was wrong :)

I’ll bet the official tool for that glow plug resembles some designs of automotive O2 sensor sockets. Roughly a deep socket the size of the nut, with 1/4 of the “tube” removed on one side. The overgrown slot clears the wires/connectors, and the socket comes down over the sensor/glow plug. Might be worth making one. When the glow plug fails, just use the cutaway socket to unscrew it through the access hole. No need to take the exchanger apart.

@nohrtillman8734

Жыл бұрын

Well…if I had watched the second half of the video before I rambled on about making a tool. 😮 Love the xkcd shirt, btw!

@wallacegrommet9343

8 ай бұрын

I cut a slot in a cheap deep socket for the wire to pass through. Works great

Making shit up on the fly…isn’t that what all Marines do…? Spoken from a brother sailor… Marines…Department of the Navy…The Men’s Department!

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Rah! You got it...improvise, adapt and overcome right? And Navy is the best...best Marine Uber ever that is ;). j/k.

Man I wish I had time to tinker!!!! Man I miss Chicago food being in Florida don’t know how to make a pizza for s%!$!!!!!!!

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Ooof...I have no idea what passes for pizza in Florida but I'm willing to bet it can't hold a candle to a good Chicago pie :). Sorry for your loss ;)

Bonjour vous ressemblez à Orson Welles

Are you filtering the fuel? For gaskets, I have always used old cardboard cereal boxes and made my own using gasket silicone and never had a leak. Try to keep the old gasket to copy for the new one which makes it a little easier.

Also, it says temp out of stock, but this thing is down to $124. I think it was $170 when you bought it. If they get it back in stock, you can't go wrong for $124.

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Wow! nice to hear the prices haven't gone up too crazy and are actually coming down in some cases. I seem to be finding more of the "unassembled" units available than these boxy types. Might have to try one of those soon.

They dont soot up. What happens is they blow smoke and wont ignite. The reason for this is that the glow plug connector gets high resistance and the glow plug wont get hot enough to ignite. Replace / byplace the high current connection with a screw terminal or simialar connector. That will fix it. Dont need to take it apart. HTH

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I'll have to take a closer look at my old glow plug now to see how to better secure the connection. Should make for a good spare part in case I need it too. (oof...another item for the junk drawer LOL)

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

@@TomtheDilettante To clarify it is the connector in th loom plug that is inadeqate to carry the ingition current for the glow plug. The sympoms will be a coppery dicoloration of the conectror spades. And that is the rerason why the units for the mobile home deisal heaters give trouble. i.e. the 2 kw models. The lager shed heaters I have no experience with but the glow plugs look the same and so do the connectors. The only difference is that the unit is built to be self contaned and the combustion system is of a larger capacity. I vive in a mobile home / truck. I had the probl;em and met others that do too. Everyone just jumps to the conclusion the unit is sooted up.

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

@@markawbolton Ah. Thank you for the clarification.

Very clean for 3 year usage. Do you usually run on high heat ? Heard inside guts stay cleaner . If seen videos where only 1- year and inside full of carbon /crust.

How to you remove the fan? What tool would you use ro remove the fan. The wires broke off when removing the motor.

There is a small screen below the gloplug

any way to clean it without tearing it apart? spray something slowly in the air intake?

ooo cut away to a second camera! swanky!

Yeah replaced that green fuel line,,, should be much better.

I would like to know how long (hours) does the diesel heater last on one tank of diesel fuel. Thanks in advance.

Beeen thinking about getting one and running the exhaust out of the chimney of my house. Would you have this type of stove over a blue flame propane heater?

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

hard to say. I haven't used a comparably powerful blue flame propane heater to heat up my shop before, so it would be unwise of me to offer a recommendation. However, having used propane heaters in general before, I will say that I think one of the disadvantages of propane is the water vapor they produce as a byproduct of combustion. I prefer the dry heat of the diesel heater at the moment.

I dont see a point in buying the expensive counterpart anymore. More money does not mean the best most of the times these days.

Your phone can read chinese^^

5KW v 8KW - thoughts?

@twloughlin

Жыл бұрын

Hold your thoughts! Went 5KW.

That is the entire heater .. Not a heat cxchanger..

👍🏻 de AC4OK

@TomtheDilettante

Жыл бұрын

Thanks much!

Love the bloopers at the end

There is a small screen below the gloplug