A quick update, the 3" burner tube is much better, The stick on oil pan heater, I would not bother with again. The burner is a bit difficult to get hot enough, we were getting a little pooling of oil in the burner tube then the oil would catch and we had flames shooting upward. I now have a tiger torch so use it to get enough heat into the burner at startup. Next addition will be a heat exchanger to warm the oil using the output hot water, the thinking there is that by having good warm oil, we will not get oil pooling, therefore a faster startup. Basically we are very pleased with the burner, SWMBO was complaining about the amount of time and money spent, but now we have it down to about 10 minutes per day.
We use the tub almost every evening, to sooth these old bones after a day of hard work, There we thought retirement would be a life of ease - haha.
Tony
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