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Originally Posted by TomJ
Not a lot you're going to do to hurt your car. I've worked on many vehicles (as the mechanic for Boulder Biodiesel and the surrounding BD community) that had coked injectors from running unwashed BD (likely other unseen problems from it too), but doing a proper reaction with a good bubble wash and settling will achieve excellent results and fuel.
Methanol fumes are the principle nasty, so a sealed processor (appleseed vented to the outside should be adequate) is mandatory in my book.
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yeah, I've been reading the links old navy posted and time and time again it is stated "you'll have to do some modifications to your diesel engine unless you own the 5 cylinder Mercedes engine. Then, no modifications are needed". Looks like I'll be fine with that.
There is a new Japanese restaurant that opened up nearby and it was mentioned several times that japanese places have good soybean oil.
With 2100 acres of soybeans behind my farm, I just don't understand why we're not producing fuel from them. Well, maybe I do. Lots of money to be lost and I'm sure the government and the oil companies like to keep us hooked up to the OPEC barrels for financial gain.
Bio can also heat my house as we burn oil in our boiler. I'm tired of doing firewood every year, hauling it in, hauling ashes out, feeding it in the middle of the night. Hopefully, with a little help from my friends, I'll be using bio next year and just turning the thermostat
I'm really up to this challenge of making bio, I've got lots of room to build a "plant" here, and with a little [or a lot] more reading/asking questions, I truly believe I can do it. I do realize methanol is bad stuff, but hell, I'm a furniture refinisher and it can't be any worse than that. Just a matter of proper handling and using a pump to siphon, although I have tasted gas in years past
Thanks all...and Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.
Cheers,
Bill