Mark,

I've got some "cartridge heaters", little metal cylindrical pieces with a couple
of leads out one end, they put out from 100 to 400 watts, and they are small
enough that I can clamp one of them to the stem of the injector.

I don't *think* that there are any rubber or plastic parts in the injector
itself, which lead me to this thought.

I figure I can insulate the fuel lines but given how slowly the fuel moves, I
didn't think the fuel would stay warm enough until it made it to the injector.
The next idea was a heated line, but then I worried about excessive heat history
in things like WVO, which can cause gumming and such. This finally was
simplified to just heating the injector. Now the oil only needs to be warm
enough to pump, yet it will be hot enough at the injector to give a good spray
pattern.

I'm going to give it a try soon - I'm just putting the fuel system together for
WVO/WMO/Diesel...

Thanks for the encouragement !
Daryl


Daryl,

That's a perfectly sensible idea, but how're you gonna do it?

Mark

mirroromatic wrote:
>
> Folks,
> I've got a Metro brand Listeroid, and am planing on running it on WMO and WVO.
>
> I've got a heating system for the oil worked out, but was wondering, given the
small volume of oil used per hour, if heating the injector itself might be a
good way to insure good atomization, if the oil were warm enough to go through
the pump and piping.
> I figure that there would be less heat history to the oil, helping to
eliminate carbon and gel formation.
>
> Does anyone see any reason why not to try it ?
>
> Thanks,
> Daryl
>
>