--- In [email protected], "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> As a scientist I do wonder why no-one has yet set up a proper recovery plant > for frying oil. It must be all down to the price of fresh oil - but A few comments: 1. We asked our local pubs and fish & chip shop what they do with their old frying oil. They leave it outside and someone comes and takes it away 'for processing'. They get o payment for this and are pleased not to have to dispose of it themselves. 2. At the beginning of the summer (!) there was a narrowboat moored up near the Alrewas water station and the owner had several cans of old vegetable oil - I now know where he got it from (1. above). He was simply filtering it through some old stockings and some other unidentified material. I got chatting to him and discovered he used it neat in his engine - no dilution - and had been doing so 'for years'. He wasn't very forthcoming about the full details but maintained that his engine was 'not modified'. 3. I then found the following url: http://www.dieselveg.com/conversion%20info.htm - the secret here is that they use plain vegetable oil by pre-heating it (and starting the engine with diesel). Maybe this is what the boater in 2. above was doing. It certainly sounds like a better way forward than going to the trouble and expense of converting veg oil to bio-diesel. Cheers Will
