Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-20 Thread redghost
http://forums.biodieselnow.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5008 On Monday, September 19, 2005, at 06:14 AM, Donald Snook wrote: Bruce wrote:   “Folks with older MB diesels owe it to themselves to try a little bioiesel.  Your cars will love it.”     Anybody know where I can get a tank full of bio

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-19 Thread Christopher McCann
These are DISTRIBUTORS: there are three listed in Kansas CIty and NONE of them have a retail pump. Call before hand. As a matter of fact, there is not a single BioD pump in KCMO, even though we are at the epicenter of US Biodeiesel distribution. Christopher --- Ed Booher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-19 Thread Ed Booher
One listing on the map, by the way. (For Wichita anyway, don't know what's closest to you) Hampel Oil 3727 S West St Wichita, KS 67217 Ken Hampel, Ed Hampel, John McQuery 316-529-1162, 316-530-5848 All Grades On 9/19/05, Ed Booher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.biodiesel.org/buyingb

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-19 Thread Ed Booher
http://www.biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/distributors/ Map of listed / acknowledged Biodiesel distributors. On 9/19/05, Donald Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bruce wrote: > > > > "Folks with older MB diesels owe it to > > themselves to try a little bioiesel. Your cars will > > lo

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-19 Thread Donald Snook
Bruce wrote: "Folks with older MB diesels owe it to themselves to try a little bioiesel. Your cars will love it." Anybody know where I can get a tank full of biodiesel in Wichita, Kansas or surrounding areas? I would like to try it, if for no other reason than as a tonic to clean ever

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-18 Thread David Brodbeck
John Robbins wrote: > Not sure how true this is but I think the shopvac thing isn't the > best solution ;) > > http://weekendpundit.blogmosis.com/lastweekend/014049.html > > Although its not obvious enough that I would consider them morons I'd say the shop vac might be okay if you've n

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-18 Thread JJJ
i used my shop vac to clean the deck of my boat the other day and the static electricity was more than annoying...almost constant...the boat was on a trailer and not grounded... here in spokane, two toddlers were severly burned while playing on their outdoor plastic slide...the two, 3 &4, had

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-18 Thread redghost
I would think there would be less issue with bioD, since it has a higher ignition point and there would be little chance of getting enough compression in the shop vac tank to make it explode. On Saturday, September 17, 2005, at 08:13 PM, John Robbins wrote: B Dike wrote: prior to the proble

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-18 Thread Marshall Booth
A little gasoline will NOT reliably kill algae (and it's a poor anti-gel - use REAL anti-gel - Mercedes stopped recommending gasoline more than 20 years ago). Making sure you regularly remove ALL the water in the fuel (water condenses out of the air in the less than full tank EVERY time the ambient

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-18 Thread Trampas
: Saturday, September 17, 2005 5:18 PM To: Mercedes mailing list Subject: Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality Likely you have "algae" in the tank, and this may or may not be related to biodiesel use -- the biodiesel tends to clean the tank (it's a better solvent than regular d

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-18 Thread John Robbins
B Dike wrote: prior to the problem. Eventually I will need to shopvac the fuel tank to clean out the gunk. I will Not sure how true this is but I think the shopvac thing isn't the best solution ;) http://weekendpundit.blogmosis.com/lastweekend/014049.html Although its not obvious en

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-17 Thread Peter Frederick
Likely you have "algae" in the tank, and this may or may not be related to biodiesel use -- the biodiesel tends to clean the tank (it's a better solvent than regular diesel), but the problem is pretty common on that age Benz. You will need to run the tank as low as you can (the screen will plu

[MBZ] Biodiesel Usage Report - The Reality

2005-09-17 Thread B Dike
Dieselers, Our daily driver fleet of 4 diesels has been running on commercial B20 mix for 6 months with zero problems. For the last month or so I been testing some 100% WVO based biodiesel in the 77 240D. The stuff is processed by a local hobbyist/activist from used restaurant oil. It runs supe