justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/12/12 at 20:03:30:Used oil,, many uses for that stuff,,Ive toyed with the OIl Fired heater idea for the shop, but that takes SO much oil,, I do use it when Im trying to get a fire going out back, a quart O diesel to get things going & a few splashes of oil & soon theres a Big Blaze,
During the war my dad was an aircraft electrician with a Lancaster squadron in England. England being England, they were always cold and damp in the Quonset huts. My dad made a tank that fit around the stove pipe on the coal burning stove in the hut and used a spigot to drip used aircraft motor oil onto some oven bricks in the stove.
He could get the stove red hot.