Mines this. Fed up with a cold garage to work in? Chinese Diesel Heater. 50/50 mix, Diesel and the waste oil from my work van service
You do know that diesel produces CO? About half as much as petrol according to Mr google. You got a CO detector with a digital readout?
Yeah it's wise to have a carbon monoxide detector. I've just fitted one of these to my summer house, and I've found that if you remove power instead of shutting it down properly (like if you have a power failure) you can get fumes coming back out the air intake (not the cold air intake for heating but the air intake to burn the diesel) which alarmed me at first. Because of this I'm going to route the air intake to the outside when I've got a mo.
I wouldn't worry about a little smoke wafting from the burner inlet after you switch off, but yes the shut down sequence hides that.
lights up blue when something is wrong. I know it works as if I start my work van up outside with the garage door opens, it starts beeping at me and lights up. ( The detector not the van)…
The CO sensors also beep when presented with solvents like ethanol, sometimes they become less sensitive as a result of contamination.
My best garage purchase has been a £200 Chinese inverter MIG welder. It is different in its behaviour to one with a big transformer in it, so takes some time to get used to. For me the main point is it weighs about 1/3 as much . It needed a few modifications to the interior, like to protect the back of a circuit board from potential birds nests of welding wire.
It will choke up the combustion chamber with carbon running it on a used oil mix soggz Best to run them on heating oil(kerosene)
A fair consideration and something I should really buy, I’ve got a torpedo style 50kw diesel heater that I’ve gotten used to breathing in the carp it chucks out, I turn it off when I’m warm or when my eyes start to sting.
I remember the day I stopped farting about and got one fondly. weighed a ton, never mind what it lifted. Same with a decent amperage welder. And every other tool there are toy versions of.
A kettle rates quite highly on my list of best garage investments, along with a comfy chair, Milwaukee nut gun, a scissor lift, and tall heavy duty axle stands.
The cheap Teng-copy socket set I bought about 30 years ago. The ratchet didn't work from new so was exchanged for a genuine Teng Tools ratchet because they hadn't got a cheap copy replacement. Broke a couple of sockets over the years, but has seen a LOT of use. Nothing else comes close to value for money
I've been trying to find Kerosene/Paraffin at a reasonable price, but failed. Diesel is way cheaper at the moment, which is messed up. I have several gallons of used oil from the bus and my bikes which is going to get burned, probably in a 50/50 mix of oil/kerosene. Even diesel will choke up the chamber eventually. Apparently the trick to keeping it clean is to run pure kerosene through it occasionally.
