"scbafreak via BoatKB.com" u25927@uwe wrote in news:6997b20ed80a9@uwe:

Most fast food joints
will give you the stuff for free

There's around 230 gallons waiting for me to pick up for our little
Frybrid Oil Company in my Frybrid stepvan in the morning...(c; The oil
recycling company is really upset with us, now only doing one pickup per
month, instead of every 5 days. We ask the restaurants, mostly Chinese
food places, to pour it back into the 6 gallon plastic jugs, in their
protective boxes, it came in through a filter funnel we provide. We pick
up the jugs and store them in a warehouse one of the guys owns who has a
Mercedes 300SD for about a month to let the particulates that made it
through the filter funnel settle out into the bottom. Then, we pump the
oil off from 3" off the bottom of the jugs without moving them from their
spot, slowly through our home made filtration system (2 diesel fuel
filters and a gear pump). The outlet oil is as clear as a bell and is
pumped into the Main Drain, a couple of 55 gallon oil drums we store it
in until one of us needs to fill up. Our only cost will be filter
cartridges. The more settling we do, the less filter changing we'll do.

I only have the computerized unit on the stepvan. I also have two diesel
Mercedes cars, a '73 220D, naturally aspirated 4-cylinder and an '83
300TD turbocharged station wagon 5-cylinder...all are 4-strokers, of
course. The van is a 6.2L diesel V-8 from GM. Currently, here in the
WARMER South, I'm experimenting with something I got from another veggie
oil user on the net....simply mixing some regular gas with the oil to
thin it down and running it at normal temperature. 70 oil and 30 gas
worked great in the 220D. The 300TD wagon is running this week on 20 gas
and 80 oil just fine. It starts right up at 45-50F in the morning. I
have a glass jar of each mix sitting on the steps for a test reference to
watch for clouding as temperatures drop. If it gets cloudy, I simply
won't try to start that mixture until the outside temperature increases.
Once the engines are warmed up, the oil-gas is heated in the block-
mounted primary and injection pump. So far, I see no problems and no
coking on the injectors or glow plugs when I pull them....(c;

The Frybrid comes from www.frybrid.com for around 1600 dollars.

Larry
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