Anyone else have any ideas?

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You just gotta get out there and do the footwork--You may have to pay for it--some grease Co's do now....

Visit everywhere that makes fried food...

Most will have grease collectors already, but try the out of the way places, Senior homes, golf-clubs, etc....

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Catering does not normally have a reliable supply but if you get a few it adds up. They usually do not have the space for the corporate drums of oil collection.

The Darlings, etc of the world have gone to putting locks on their grease dumpsters - so it is not as easy to get the restaurant owners to play ball anymore.

Small joints out in the country are a higher probability of success.

And BTW, to the OP, did you titrate that wannabee biofuel before you thru the meth-oxide in? If not, you may have something to clean metal with,but not to run.

The county fair every fall is a boon to me! I've picked up 75+ gallons at a time of good oil.

Turkey fryer oil around Thanksgiving is a good source of oil. Tell all your friends to ask their family. It is usually peanut oil and makes good summer fuel, but you can brew and then store it until summer.

Church fish fries, especially during Lent.

None of these are week to week regulars, but the surge of oil every once in a while will do wonders for your supply.

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ran on 50/50 today, smells good runs good

my first 100 gallons will cost about $240.00 after that my hard gear is paid for and i'll just have to buy replacement filters.

Amos, what is your location?

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I never understand the debate on WVO vs Biodiesel. With WVO there is the time, pumping, settling, heating, and filtering. The only difference is there are no chemicals. For me the decider was two fold 1. multiple vehicles - no modifications. 2. home heating fuel. From a cost benefit standpoint investing capital into biodiesel yields more numerous returns. A WVO system on a car can only save money on that one car...

Do not forget that building a biodiesel processor cost money also, it is not free. And in a more ideal world I would make biodiesel to start my WVO powered cars ( I have 3). No matter how good your processor is methanol is still really flammable. And how do you make bio without pumping, settling, heating, and filtering.

In a good WVO filtering system each batch takes minutes. I can process 30 gallons of grease in less hands on time than it takes to do the titration. The hard part is collecting and bringing home, both sides have to do that.

I live in South Florida we do not heat our homes, so no comment on that. I would like to make a grease powered generator that powers the A/C on my house that would do wonders. If you heat your house bio probably does not work as well in the winter. WVO is heated and works all year long.

The further you drive the greater the benefit of WVO system the less you drive the greater the benefit of Bio. Again both would be the best of both worlds. Investing capital in bio also means greater cost because you have to constantly purchase methanol. And Chemicals and store both of those.

I respect your experience. But in my situation the benefit of a single process provide a fuel that can be consumed without modification on many pieces of equipment is more economical (cost of consumables included). Things in the south may make the wvo system weigh out better..




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I was under the impression that bio diesel does not work in the winter? Am I mistaken.

yes, you are......in Germany, in our old diesel work cars (construction) we run biodiesel in the winter (100%, theres no such thing as this mixing crap, it either is, or it isnt), and Straight Vegatable Oil (fresh oil, sold at the pump at the gas station, yes we have that ) in the 4 or so months during summer......people rarely even change their fuel filters, and it runs and runs....

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The gel point of the biodiesel depends on the gel point of the source material. Oils with a higher gel point make biodiesel with a higher gel point. There are lots of tricks and tons of threads on winter fuels at "infopop". Here in CT, I ran biodiesel cut with RUG or dyno-diesel in the winter.

They sell SVO at the pump over there? Tell me you are kidding! It definitely was not like that when I was there 10 years ago. I would love to see something like that here for the times when WVO gets a little tough to find. Just for the record, what are they getting a gallon/litre for the SVO?

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