[AT] Anybody using/making Biodiesell?

[H. L. Staples]

Some time back Spencer reported on making and running home made bio-diesel.
 
A friend of mine drives a small VW pickup using home made fuel from waste
cooking oil.
 
Not sure of his process but he says it cost him about $.57 per gallon.  
 
I know of another fellow that just burns the used cooking oil in his diesel
pickup.  Seems that he has the regular diesel tank, a dirty oil tank. (He
takes this oil home and heats and filters it through a 1 micron ?? Filter.)
The third tank is for the clean cooking oil. He starts and shuts down the
truck engine on regular diesel and after the truck is warmed up switches to
the filtered oil.  The only processing he does is filter the used oil. Been
doing this for a couple years with no problems.
 
Discussion-- I have been told that one of the best ways of disposing of used
diesel engine oil is to burn some of it in each tank of diesel.  Sure should
be careful to keep it clean.  A caution was not to burn the crank case oil
from a gasoline engine in a diesel engine.
 
H. L. Staples
McLoud, Oklahoma
USA
 
On 2/25/2008 9:38:35 PM, David Holcombe (dlholcombe at una.edu) wrote: > Since we are > talkin' about fuel. Is there anyone > on the list using or making Biodiesel from cooking oil? > Or do you know anyone that is. I would like to try it. > > I think I can come up with a pretty good supply of used > vegetable cooking oil. > > I've > been going to some of the websites of the companies > that sell Biodiesel making kits. They all sound great, but > most of there info is about how much better their process is > over the other companies. > > David Holcombe in NW AL > > BTW, has anybody got a solar hot water pre-heater in their home? > I am in the process of building one. > > Oh Yeah, to make this tractor related.... I finally got my 1946 AC C > out of the shop( I bought it at auction for $800.00 last march). > According > to my checkbook it is now worth $2064.00. > _______________________________________________