Depending on how much you want to make you can buy dry gas (methanol) - I get it for .69 at a dollar store and Red Devil Lye at the hardware store.
Brian Rodgers wrote: >Would you say that Red Devil Lye is or was the best source of >Potassium hydroxide? As It is way too early in the morning here in New >Mexico and I have difficulties remembering which chemicals are which I >looked up potassium hydroxide again. Maybe it will stick this time. > >The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05. > >potassium hydroxide > >chemical compound with formula KOH. Pure potassium hydroxide forms >white, deliquescent crystals. For commercial and laboratory use it is >usually in the form of white pellets. A strong base, it dissolves >readily in water, giving off much heat and forming a strongly >alkaline, caustic solution (see acids and bases). It is commonly >called caustic potash. It closely resembles sodium hydroxide in its >chemical properties and has similar uses, e.g., in making soap, in >bleaching, and in manufacturing chemicals, but is less widely used >because of its higher cost. It is prepared chiefly by electrolysis of >potassium chloride; commercial grades of it sometimes contain the >chloride as well as other impurities. > >Also, my son and his best friend work at the local university, I asked >them what type of equipment they can get their hands on to test the >purity of household chemicals. It is my understanding that methanol >can also be found in general goods stores if one knows what to look >for. BBQ lighter fluid has no ingredients listing on the side like it >should, but I am sure I have read here that it is based on methanol, >true or no? I asked the guys to look for a gas chromagraph at school. >Can some of the laboratory types verify this would be a good piece of >equipment for the younger generation to learn how to use? > >I have the worst memory for new information so I have digested every >message in this group as well as a few other sources in an attempt to >memorise terms and processes. Unfortunately, as the old song or saying >goes, I got a job, but it don't pay, thus my means and enthusiasm are >constantly struggling for dominance. In other words I desperately need >to find cheap or free equipment and chemicals 'and' I need to have >alternate sources for as much of the needed stuff so I can better >figure this all out while I am in the thinking about it stages of >making my own biodiesel. > >Please any help which you lab techies can give us about analysing >chemicals will be greatly appreciated. >Sincerely, >Brian Rodgers > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
