Lol, if you don’t wash all the glycerol out, the residual hydroxide will make a 
real mess of the injection system.  

Not really a back yard production idea.

Peter
> On May 6, 2022, at 10:38 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
> I'll stick to making pepper jelly.
> 
> On Fri, May 6, 2022, 9:36 PM Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> To make biodiesel you need methanol or ethanol, sodium hydroxide and
>> vegetable oil (used or unused). You mix the sodium hydroxide with methanol
>> to make sodium methoxide or with ethanol to make sodium ethoxide. Either
>> one of these is then mixed with the vegetable oil. The chemical reaction is
>> a transesterification reaction producing biodiesel and glycerol. The
>> glycerol which is denser settles to the bottom while the biodiesel floats
>> on top. Further processing or washing is done to enhance the purity of the
>> biodiesel. It’s actually a very simple straightforward process. I made some
>> small batches many years ago for fun.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On May 6, 2022, at 8:51 AM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> It's commercial biodiesel refined fryer oil or simply soybean oil mixed
>> with a little bit of diesel?
>> 
>> On Thu, May 5, 2022, 11:43 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Good one!
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On May 5, 2022, at 7:44 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Shifty deal
>>>> 
>>>> --FT
>>>> Sent from iFōn
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 5, 2022, at 7:33 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes <
>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Probably better than running on waste fryer oil, but not sure by how
>>> much.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, May 5, 2022, at 7:21 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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