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RE: heat I ran a 50-50 mix of filtered WMO & diesel. Too much time spent cleaning up. More trouble than it's worth. Eric CBVET

Dale, I had the same problems & tried the same solutions. I tossed it & put in a wood stove. I'll save the WMO for vehicle fuel. Eric CBVET

Okay, I built a stove using a 15 gallon drum. This throws quite a bit of heat. I ran it on diesel first. It worked fine up to about #5 on the dial. If I turned it up higher, it would flood & smoke a lot. Set it up last night with waste motor oil filtered to 100 microns. Due to the thicker oil...

Adam, I'm getting way more waste motor oil than I can possibly use in my Deuce, so I'd really like to use it for heating my shop. My 55 gallon drum stove is a lot bigger in diameter & height than the 1941 stove. I wonder if that's part of the problem. Maybe you can answer some questions: 1...

Well, I finally decided to get my heater going. Cut the bottom out of a 55 gallon drum to set over the oil burner. Made 2 holes in the top. One for a 4" chimney pipe & another for lighting. Put it together outside to burn the paint off the barrel. Not knowing what is correct, I made some...

RE: oil burner conversion for 1941 heater stove In VietNam we started out burning gasoline in them, but switched to diesel because it put out more heat. I don't remember it smoking all that bad, but heck! There are a lot of things I don't remember from 40 years ago. I too, bought one recently...