Oil burner

An Oil burner is a device for producing a fire in the firebox of a boiler in order to produce steam. They typically take oil in from an oil reservoir and atomize the oil into a fine mist using steam or air pressure.

This photos shows four types of oil burners: 1) is a Railroad Supply Corporation dual burner with manifold. The piping could be redone to reattach both burners. There are two 1/8 inch NPT connections on the back side of the manifold for steam and oil. The Railroad Supply type burner was described by Chet Peterson in So You Want To Build A Live Steam Locomotive. 2) is a similar burner design to the RR Supply but is from Bob Reedy's Mogul articles in Live Steam. 3) is an Ed Spall lifting burner that was described in Live Steam Magazine November 1988. 4) is a Harold Timm type of burner that was described in Live Steam Magazine December 1983.

Prototypes

The conversion of UP Big Boy 4014 from coal to oil is described in this video.

See Also

• Bagley Oil Burner
• Valve for Oil Burner
• Corwin Oil Burner
• Wulf-Dieter Oil Burner
• Firepan For Oil Burner

External Links

• "Oil burners", Chaski.org
• "Oil burner", Chaski.org
• "Stanley Steam Car Stanley Steamer Baker Burner Testing"
• "Diffused-flame vaporizing oil burner that is silent"
• "Oil Burner Design by LBSC", Chaski.org
• "Designing an oil Atomizer for a Vertical Boiler", Chaski.org
• Oil Burners offered by A&K
• Oil Burner for a Shay
• Oil Burner for 1-inch scale
• "A Monoflue Gas Fired Radiant Burner Boiler"
• "Oil Firing 3/4 inch Scale", Chaski.org
• "Bagley Oil Burner", Chaski.org
• "Oil burning boiler mods", Chaski.org
• "Re-light an oil burner", Chaski.org
• "Draught required for oil firing", Chaski.org
• "Steam Locomotive Fuel Oil Conversion"