I'm looking to heat my garage and I have access to plenty of used cooking oil (I own a restaruant). Is there anything out there that can do this without "breaking the bank"? I need all the money I can get for the 65s.
Thanx in advance, Frank

Frank, you will starve to death when working in the garage. The cooking oil smells like french fries cooking when burned as a fuel either in a heater or run in a diesal engine.:beers:

I'll bet you don't have as much oil as you think you do. A guy I know picks up oil from restaurants around here for use in heating his pole barn. It's been a part time job picking up enough oil to keep things running and he hasn't had much time to work on his cars! A waste oil burner is not cheap either.

ALSS (Al Galdi) has a sweet system in his shop, it's a wood burning stove for radiant heat in the floor. He just throws three or four logs on the fire every 12 hours or so.

Check out this site for how to build your own waste oil heater out of an old electric water heater. You can build one of these dirt cheap!!!! http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me4.html

I have a commercial waste oil heater in my shop and love it. It takes a while to get it fired up but once it is, it will keeping my 24 x 48 shop 70+ degrees (two weekends ago when it was 10* outside I was working in a t-shirt).

I have been using this one called the Eliminator heater for about 5 years.It heats up my garage which is 28x32 in about 30 min with the thermostat set at 50.Does not waste alot of oil.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/profgh6682/IMG_0324.jpg

Living in NJ, you can't need much heat, so why not just spend $100-200 on a cheap 220v electric heater. No venting needed and you don't have an open flame to risk a garage fire.
One of the byproducts of combustion is water, and that ends up being ice and frost on your walls and doors. Electric heat costs more per BTU in most parts of the country, but if you heat the work area only when you are working, you won't hardly notice the cost and installation is cheap and simple.

Actually, my Mercedes smelled like burned popcorn when running on WVO. It did make me hungry on my way home from work...

Just sayin'

K