Hi Bio-Boy, Please please follow Keiths advice. For the money spent on something that will give you heart burn you can buy over 250 gallons of Grade A methanol and the best of lye with money left over for a trip to the junk yard. Take that and start making small batches and with the help of JtF and its excellent resources you will be able to make a QUALITY fuel that will be a credit to us all. I am overwhelmed at the number of individuals that knew someone that new someone that went the way of "touch less" or just plain made fuel that was poor quality and burned up some injectors or something and now all they have to do is whine about how bad Biodiesel is. You are at the crossroads of making a fuel far superior to DINO or you can make something else, it really is not any harder to do it right and when you do you will understand why.
Thanks to all and Good luck Bio-Boy Jim Ecc.3:1-9 Keith Addison wrote: >>Hi guys, >> >>I'm new to the Bio-scene and have been studying several sights and trying to >>figure out the right processor to start with. >> >> > >Don't start with a processor, start with the process. Start here: >"Where do I start?" >http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start > >Keep going, step by step. Study everything on that page and the next >page and at the links in the text. The processor comes later, when >you have enough hands-on experience making your fuel to know what it >is that you want and need. > > > >>A couple of weeks ago I met >>Michael L. here in Alabama. He was very helpful in getting familiar with the >>process, even letting me make a 50 gal batch while I was there. >> >>He kept mentioning an "appleseed" processor.I hadn't heard of it before but >>when I got home I looked it up. Turns out that it is basically same as Dale >>Scroggins's "touchless" processor which i was looking at building in the >>first place. >> >> > >Uh, it's not the same as Dale's touchless processor. It's a cheapo >rip-off of Dale's processor, which is not acknowledged by the people >who promote it. > > > >>MY question is this: The drain on the water heater tank >> >> > >Yes, quite. Bottom drain problems, separation problems, and most >likely processing problems too because the pump they recommend is >much too small. > >We had this stuff at the Journey to Forever website at one stage but >when the problems started emerging and those responsible kicked up a >massive smokescreen of denial rather than admit their processors are >anything less than perfect or suggest necessary improvements we >dumped both it and them. About a year later they started hinting at >last that, hey, maybe the pump's too small. Right. Caveat emptor. > >Best wishes > >Keith > > > > >>that i >>have is aprox. 1-2 in from the bottom. this is taking into account the fact >>that the inside bottom is concaved upward. I got the tank used from a friend >>so i had to clean the lime and scale out of it. I noticed that when it would >>drain there would still be water left inside & i would have to tilt the tank >>to drain it completely. How does the residual glycerin left in the tank >>effect the drainage of the top layer of biodiesel? is there a way to get it >>to drain better? I have taken all insulation and sheetmetal from the tank to >>clean it and noticed that the top is "somewhat" rounded itself. Would it be >>better to turn the tank upside down and weld mounts to it so that the top >>would serve as a cone shaped bottom and drain better. >> >>If anyone using this type of processor has had drainage problems I would >>love to here your thoughts. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Bio-Boy >>Romans 8:28 >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
