This is the kind of shit that happens when a DUmbshit sees a perfectly functional and serviceable piece of hardware - in this case, the DUmbshit has seen one of those oil-filled radiant heaters in a Lowes or Home Depot, or someplace, and realized it was out of s/h/it's price range - and thinks they can rube goldberg together a substitute worthy of MacGyver.

What an idiotic concept.
The viscosity of coffee in a percolator is probably not much greater than water, and the pot is designed with that in mind, whereas the viscosity of motor oil is going to be quite a bit higher.
So much so that this idea isn't going to work until the oil is heated to the point where viscosity breaks down enough to be pumped through the system. - That probably wont happen until long after the pot's heating element burns out. Look at this link, primitive.
Actually it's the viscosity of the oil that makes the oil-filled heater the DUmbshit is pathetically trying to ape, work. When you heat oil, it retains the heat longer - and radiates it away at a slower rate - than would a less viscous fluid, like water or coffee. This means that the radiant heater can heat up the oil, and then let the heating element cycle off and the oil inside the heater is still radiating heat.
The DUmbshit's problem is that an electric percolator isn't designed to do that. It's heating element - intended for use with more delicious and less viscous water/caffeine solutions - has shorter "off" cycles than the space heater would, because it's constantly trying to replace the heat that the coffee is constantly shedding. As a result, I would expect the oil to overheat in the DUmmy's cobbled together engineering nightmare. So long as the idiot keeps s/h/it's towel from becoming a wick, I don't expect the oil to flash, but having a bubble of scalding hot oil burst onto your arm or leg or face ranks pretty high in my "not fun" list.
Dummy posting pics of it's hideous 2nd degree oil burns in 3... 2... 1...
