I spent an hour trying to beat the price of methanol that I bought last time, from a race car enthusiast, who sold it to me for $3.50 / gallon.
I called the local fuel / oil distributor, who has quite a monopoly in this small town, and his prices reflect that fact. Their current pricing is $349. plus tax for a 55 gallon drum, or $7.00 per gallon. Upon calling other nearby towns, I found it to be quite unavailable at other similar types of suppliers. (one receptionist was actually quite cold in her response, I assume the boss warned her about the druggie types that might be calling... Who knows...) So I guess I'm back to getting it from the race car enthusiast. Last time I bought it, I got 10 gallons, I've been sharing it, with a neighbor who has farm equipment, another neighbor who has a diesel Suburban, and using it myself in my diesel Datsun pickup. The 50 gallons I made with 10 gallons of methanol has lasted all of us over 2 months, (I'm the only one running more than B20, just been adding B100 to whatever is in the tank, my full tank is now close to 85% BD. and no evidence of rubber decomposition...) The Lye was made available to me through an industrial soap manufacturer in this small town, I've used about 1/3 of a gallon jug of the dry beads. Didn't weigh the jug full, so I can't say exactly how much I've used. On another note, I gave a friend a couple of gallons last week end, and he tried mixing it with kerosene for a heater that looks like a torpedo, or jet engine. (wish I could tell you what he calls it.) He reports that it burned well, good heat, smells like food, and no kerosene odor at all... doug swanson Brian Rodgers wrote: > this sounds like good advice > > On 10/3/05, Derick Giorchino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi as I figure this is almost $10.50 a gal I get mine at a fuel & oil >>supplier at $2.35 that's including the taxes. > > So this brings me back to the original question. > How much lye and methanol is the average biodieseler using per week? > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- All generalizations are false. Including this one. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This email is constructed entirely with OpenSource Software. No Microsoft databits have been incorporated herein. All existing databits have been constructed from recycled databits. _______________________________________________ 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/
