Biodiesel Equipment Class May 30, 12-6 At Tinkers Workshop Shorebird facility, 80 Bolivar Dr, Berkeley (please note: this is not the Tinkers' Workshop better-known main site)
No pre-registration needed, please come! Cost: $20-$50 sliding scale Optional 85-page homebrew biodiesel guidebook available for $8. Directions to site: I-80 to University exit Go east on University to 6th st (which is the first right you can make) Turn right on 6th st Go right on Addison Go to the waterfront, and make a left Go one block, site will be on your right Address: 80 Bolivar Dr. This is a class on the equipment needs for homebrewing biodiesel fuel. Please see www.journeytoforever.org to familiarise yourself with the homebrewing process. I am also teaching a comprehensive homebrewing class at Solar Living Institute in Hopland the day before- please see http://store.solarlivingstore.com/bifufrve2920.html for registration to the Hopland class. Biodiesel equipment at the May 30th class will be an 'Appleseed' water heater-based biodiesel reactor, a standpipe wash tank, methanol recovery condensers and a counterflow heat exchanger, gear pump built out of an engine oil sump pump, mistwashing equipment and homemade polyethylene bubblewash aerator. We will discuss the biodiesel reaction, compatible materials, engineering and designing a system, other kinds and sizes of tanks, plumbing tools, safety, basic plumbing and wiring, basics of pumps, methoxide mixer options, methanol recovery and vacuum-assisted methanol recovery. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
