Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-17 Thread Kurt Nolte
I never thought of that. Nice trick! On 11/17/05, Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt,Take a sport cap off of a 1 liter water bottle and put it on top of a 2liter PET bottle (soda bottle). Invert bottle. Slice off the bottom.Fill bottle with contents of your one liter reaction. Nest

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-16 Thread Joe Street
Sounds good Kurt but you need to take a liter of your hooch and treat it as virgin oil and see if any reaction happens with methoxide. Joe Kurt Nolte wrote: Right, so, I think I may be successful here! Have a batch that I mixed up a few days ago, using a modified for local materials

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-16 Thread Kurt Nolte
True, but since I only did a single liter test batch I only can safely pull off about .8L using my present methods. Would a retest of half a liter work? Or should I see how much more I can skim off the top of the bottom layer? -KurtOn 11/16/05, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-16 Thread Darryl West
@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think.. True, but since I only did a single liter test batch I only can safely pull off about .8L using my present methods. Would a retest of half a liter work? Or should I see how much more I can skim off the top of the bottom layer? -Kurt

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-16 Thread Kurt Nolte
it as virgin oil, do you mean for Kurt to do the whole process again? If so why would that be? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kurt Nolte Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think.. True

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-16 Thread Darryl West
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Nolte Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:26 AM To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think.. To check for process completion. Reprocessing, basically; if any more glycerine falls out, the process needs to be refined still. I've been re

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-16 Thread Appal Energy
Kurt, Take a sport cap off of a 1 liter water bottle and put it on top of a 2 liter PET bottle (soda bottle). Invert bottle. Slice off the bottom. Fill bottle with contents of your one liter reaction. Nest inverted bottle into an appropriate sized jar, quart sized or better. Let settle. After

[Biofuel] Success! I think..

2005-11-15 Thread Kurt Nolte
Right, so, I think I may be successful here! Have a batch that I mixed up a few days ago, using a modified for local materials version of the Test Batch processor on the site. Good clean separation of the two layers when I let it settle in a translucent HDPE container. (I have a dozen of them