If you don't mind driving a little, There is a supplier north of Jefferson City selling at $1.50 a gal in 55's. They sell clean drums for 15.00 or you can bring your own. I'll have to find there name and number if interested.
Mark McElvy AccuBak Data Systems, Inc. 573.435.9628 - Office 573.435.1429 - Fax 281.682.4181 - Mobile http://www.accubak.com/ http://www.accubak.net/ Nationwide Internet Access Accurate backups for your critical data! -----Original Message----- From: lostinthelife [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:50 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Hard to describe the feeling It's hard to describe what I'm feeling right now just sitting here looking. I'm a little proud, like a father who sees his child sleeping. I'm a little humble, like someone learning a new insight into the way nature works. I'm a little excited, like I'm standing on the threshold to a new beginning. I'm a little anxious, like someone who wants to get involved in something bigger than themselves. Why do I feel this way? You should know, you all probably felt this way about this same time in your life as well. I'm going to be tempted to stay up all night now because I'm watching it. I'm watching my very first batch of biodiesel separate. It's beautiful in it's own way. It's still cloudy, but I've already got about 20mm of darker glycerin on the bottom. I already know it's contaminated, but I don't care. I tried to dry out the container with my air compressor's blow gun but in my haste I forgot to take off the air tool oiler, so there's some oil in there. I couldn't find a scale that would measure out half a gram of lye, so I think I put too much in. It's really humid here right now, and I couldn't find any translucent lye anyway so maybe the extra lye is ok. Of course I didn't wash it, I'll learn to do that soon, but not tonight. Now I've got 'first batch' questions: 1. If I accidentally shake it and some of the glycerin mixes back in with the biodiesel will it settle back out again? 2. Would it be easier to remove the biodiesel if I chilled the container a little so the glycerin was thicker? 3. Will people like my roommate someday stop looking at me funny when I tell them I'm making my own diesel? 4. Is it just me or have I just done more to end terrorism than most of the politicians in Washington? 5. The only place in town that sells methanol charges $2 a gallon regardless of quantity. Is that typical? 6. Does anyone know a good place in the Kansas City area to buy methanol? 7. Are any of you from Kansas City? The guy I bought my methanol from told me there was someone else in there about two weeks ago who said he was going to make biodiesel as well. 8. Does watched biodiesel separate? Or should I go boil water and come back? 9. If I wanted to keep this bottled up for 'posterity' since it's my first batch, how long would it keep? Thanks for reading this incredibly long and rambling post. Ryan Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
