[biofuel] Re: Making methanol and lye

2002-09-03 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Lori, nice to hear from you again, it's been a long time. See: http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/chloralkali/index.html This looks like the one, great. He's quite droll about it too. Scroll down to Instructions and click on the picture, there's a step-by-step in a java popup

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2002-09-03 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Paul Um, yes. Duh! I don't mind admitting it all looks like fly-shit to me. Well, not quite, I can follow it up to a point but easily get lost. Should've guessed the arrows though. Wouldn't worry too much about it Keith its all in house stuff. Each discipline has its own jargon, show

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2002-09-02 Thread rpg
- Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:32 PM Subject: Making methanol and lye - was Re: [biofuel] Another biodieselfrom ethanol story snip It got a bit garbled in transmission, not sure what

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2002-09-02 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Paul It got a bit garbled in transmission, not sure what this character might have been: #8594 Keith looks like the mystery garble should have been an arrow or gives/yields. Um, yes. Duh! I don't mind admitting it all looks like fly-shit to me. Well, not quite, I can follow it up to a

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2002-09-02 Thread rpg
- Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Making methanol and lye - Hi Paul It got a bit garbled in transmission, not sure what this character might have been: #8594

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2002-09-02 Thread Curtis Sakima
Just going down my email from latest to earliest (so I might find something in an earlier post). The thing about the liquid mercury doesn't sound like something I'd enjoy doing in my garage. Especially if the reaction is to produce lye in car-fuel quantities. This wood-ash KOH, yeah, I've

[biofuel] Re: Making methanol and lye

2002-09-02 Thread Curtis Sakima
I'm glad you guys discuss it. I really am. A long time ago ... I've heard of destructive distillation. I guess I figured that ... since I haven't kept my ear to the ground for awhile ... that someone had figured out another, better way (now that we're in the new millenium!!). I guess not

[biofuel] Re: Making methanol and lye

2002-09-02 Thread Lori
See: http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/chloralkali/index.html and http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/soap/ Lori At 03:32 PM 2002-09-02 +0900, Keith Addison wrote: For NaOH, we had some information that you can make sodium hydroxide from table salt. Kirk sent me this below