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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
Mike Canfield wrote:
WVO will flow to the pump but it will not go through the nozzle unless
heated just before the nozzle with an inline electric heater.
And you can't just
Find out who the company is, call them up and ask about purchasing a couple hundred
gallons of WVO. When they're ready to talk, find out what they do to the oil after they
collect it from the food bin. If they say nothing or something similar, that's illegal
to sell. I believe (haven't seen
That sounds like a good idea. They might deliver it, cleaned and filtered,
in quantity; and that would still be cheaper than diesel.
Gerry
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From: Luther Gulseth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Find out who the company is, call them up and ask about purchasing a
couple hundred
cept cleaned and filterd is illegal
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:15:54 -0500, archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That sounds like a good idea. They might deliver it, cleaned and filtered,
in quantity; and that would still be cheaper than diesel.
Gerry
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From: Luther Gulseth
Not with bioD. WVO yes. BioD is the same viscosity as DinoD.
Mike
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From: Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
Homepower had an article some time ago about burning
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
On a related note, shouldn't you also be able to add your waste engine and
transmission oils to the mix?
btw: Our local fuel oil vendor sells a B20 blend for the home heating oil
market.
On 8/18/06, Dave Wakin
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
Curt Raymond wrote:
I've sure thought about it, I presume the need to heat the oil would
still be there
to get the correct spray pattern and not put as much load on the internal
pump.
Good point. Maybe a heat exchanger in the flue? Or maybe a water
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
Zeitgeist wrote:
On a related note, shouldn't you also be able to add your waste engine
and
transmission oils to the mix?
I wouldn't recommend
The cooks didn't know the name of the company that picked up the waste oil
from the tanks and the traps. Next time I'm over there I'll ask one of the
owners. A Tampa internet search found this:
Griffin Industries is a forerunner and innovator in waste cooking oil
collection and recycling.
Mike Canfield wrote:
WVO will flow to the pump but it will not go through the nozzle unless
heated just before the nozzle with an inline electric heater.
And you can't just replace a 3/4 gph nozzle with a 1.5gph nozzle?
Would that make it atomize poorly?
The idea of burning it in an old VW
I live in upstate NY, and burn fuel oil all winter long to keep warm - can I
use vegtable oil in my furnace? Or better yet, used fryer oil?
Dave W
Sure. BUt not that simply. If you have a spare furnace and/or know what
you're doing it can be done with varying degrees of success and or work
prior/during it's use.
Personally I'm in the same situation, but I don't know enough about my
furnace that I feel comfortable with it and everything
Dave Wakin wrote:
I live in upstate NY, and burn fuel oil all winter long to keep warm - can I
use vegtable oil in my furnace? Or better yet, used fryer oil?
Burner nozzles are cheap. You'll need an indoor oil tank, or it will freeze
solid
outdoors. The glycerine might gum up the heat
Curt Raymond wrote:
I've sure thought about it, I presume the need to heat the oil would still
be there
to get the correct spray pattern and not put as much load on the internal
pump.
Good point. Maybe a heat exchanger in the flue? Or maybe a water heater between
the storage tank and
Zeitgeist wrote:
On a related note, shouldn't you also be able to add your waste engine and
transmission oils to the mix?
I wouldn't recommend it. Engine oil has a lot of stuff in it that
doesn't burn and makes copious amounts of ash.
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
Curt Raymond wrote:
I've sure thought about it, I presume the need to heat the oil
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altfuelfurnace/
Harbor Freight sells a 12V car heater ($7 on sale) that uses PTC
elements that will heat the oil to ~350F. Just about right for a
nozzle heater.
You could go for the whole-monte and burn the WVO in a diesel
generator and use both the heat and the
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:38 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vegtable Oil Question
Zeitgeist wrote:
On a related note, shouldn't you also be able to add your waste engine
and transmission oils to the mix?
I wouldn't recommend
rumor has it that Curt wrote:
I've sure thought about it, I presume the need to heat the oil
would still be there to get the correct spray pattern and not put
as much load on the internal pump.
If you have a water heater, it should be pretty easy to set up a
system to heat the fuel
I'd be a bit shy to add more than a few qts to a 55 gal drum while
filtering ( which I do sometimes ) but I wouldn't want to add much more
on these engines.
That said, a bunch of the guys with the big IDI truck diesels run WMO (
waste motor oil )all the time and love the daylights out of it,
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