People are still using kitchen blenders? Brings to mind the war time observationist thought process:
"What a perfectly good waste of a human (or blender)." Blenders quickly rust, seize up and upon first use become perfectly useless relative to food processing. I'll take "time in a bottle" over blenders any day...and live happily with my decision. Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] washing diesel > Hello Mark > > >Dear Keith > > > >I don't always respond thats true but I do read. > >The mixing is limited to 5 minutes because thats > >all the blender will take before it smells of > >burning plastic. > > So switch it off for 5 minutes to let it cool down a bit then mix for > another 5 minutes, and so on, for at least half an hour. > > >I agree that the mixing time is > >short and it is conducted at room temperature > >only for the moment. > > If you heat the oil separately first in a saucepan to 55 deg C/130 > deg F it will stay hot for quite a long time during the blender mix - > though the lower temp of the methanol will cool it down a bit. But > still much better than RT. > > >I do have, however, a hot > >plate with a magnetic stirrer coming along within > >the next few days. The first sample was only > >washed once. So agreed, there are improvements to > >be made. > > Indeed. Still it seems you're doing okay to have got separation at > all in these conditions. Gear up a bit and follow the instructions at > the links I gave you and you'll be fine: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html > Make your own biodiesel: Journey to Forever > > http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bubblewash.html > Bubble washing: Journey to Forever > > I do rather think you should have told us all this in the first place > though before asking what had gone wrong with your wash. (Nothing, as > it turns out.) > > Best > > Keith > > >Regards > > > >Mark > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/aM1XQD/od7FAA/uetFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
