I have an oil burner i was thinking of using for the heat source so once it is up and running i would be running some of the product for the heat source, my only other expense would be a little electricity.

i have about a half acre that i could set this in the middle of for the first couple test runs. like i have said in other threads this is not much out of the scope of what i have done as a contractor for the last 30 years, that is to say to build and assemble, so i am not some kid out of high school with basic chemistry under my belt thinking of doing this. there is a guy on youtube that has several videos of some very nice stainless cracking towers, aka distillation towers, that i believe is in australia and he actually sells them on his web site.

you are right, even with lighting the top of the tower i am going to have smell, my thought was maybe to run a retort set up to reburn the waste gases..... you could also possibly use the heat produced for other things.

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my first couple of batches i used some old gas i has sitting around, then i used some old diesel, the last batch is straight mixed waste oil, it's a mix of transmission fluid and motor oil no other gas or diesel, if it was cold right now i would have to think of adding something to get the viscosity down or maybe adding some glow plug heaters like they do with grease systems, but right now it's working fine

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Im pretty sure the astro van project $$ amount is way beyond the comfort level of most thinking off swaps for next to nothing,, but i would point you to a dead/forsaken toyota forerunner with the expired v6, they can be had for 1500-to 2000$

Oh, that makes sense. I have some WVO and some Plaster of Paris sitting around -- I might play with that idea a little once we are above freezing and I can experiment outside .
What did you do with the juicer? Did you make/use a different bowl? How much can you process at a time/how long does it take?
[EDIT] I Googled it and got answers to my questions. I'll post the links tomorrow in case someone in the future bumps into this and wonders the same thing]
Oh, OK. How much heat?
Oh, that makes sense. I remember Roy H. saying that ATF and hydraulic fluid can be run straight.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

that's what i was thinking forerunner size, pilot or another version of an isuzu

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only thing that bothers me is the additives they use in ATF, they concern me as much as metal flakes in WMO.

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scrounged several sizes of schedule 80 pipe today from a friends junk pile, need to come up with a good way to make a serviceable boiler and i have the making of a reflux still. plan on trying to do it with electricity and then later with a diesel generator. think i will just have to run each distillate separate for now.

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Funny, using a diesel generator to produce fuel for a vehicle you don't want to run diesel in....think you should ask the moderator to move this to the alternative fuel section....I am assuming they will understand why you are doing what you are doing then we will in the diesel discussion area...

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where do you get that i don't want to run diesel in the car? the point of distilling the WMO is to have a pure diesel product to run in the car, it will also produce gas which will either be lost or collected and i will use for other vehicles and my honda generator until i find a diesel unit.

When i get started on building the processor i will start a new thread in the alternative fuel forum.

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I'm interested to see how this pans out. I'm all for making your own fuel

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So aka your going to build your own fuel refinery......I personally would find this extremely dangerous....I lived around refineries....plus I would be afraid I would be reported to the EPA and get fined or end up in prison for illegally producing fuel....

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Producing fuel so long as it isn't ethanol is fine, it's running an untaxed fuel on a public road that will send you to the slammer.

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Nahh, keep it here. Alt. Fuels is where thread go to die.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

this thread kind of took a different turn, waiting on my box of goodies to get here to fix all the little problems, which will revel more problems and lead to another order.... LOL

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you can actually produce fuel as long as you track your usage and pay the appropriate taxes and actually probably will if i get to that point. right now at best this is just experimental, it's not like i am going to run a fleet of trucks on the stuff.

Keeping all that in mind I have for years used fuel i bought at the pump that has never seen the street, diesel for heavy equipment, pony motors, generators, heaters, dirt bikes, dune buggies, jeeps, quads, motor cycles, water craft, gold mining equipment...... if the Gov wanted to keep everything fair they would give you different prices at the pump depending on usage because not everyone has a way of excepting 500 gallons of red delivered to their house.

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