in the states I could not get kero.... so I blended lamp oil (won't burn good) and colmans (burns too good) The same could be done with old oil from fish n chip shop cooking oil (cheaper than chips) and fuel light/ colemans.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Jez Weston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd be keen to find out more about the biofuels for spinning. Making > bio-diesel from waste oil is pretty easy, though it does involve using > methanol (nasty) and sodium hydroxide (not very nice either). > > If it's just for spinning, not for putting it in a car, then you haven't > got to worry so much about fuel quality, water content, all that palarver. > Still, diesel burns pretty hot and I've seen varying reports about whether > spinning with biodiesel is a good idea or not. > > Biokerosene is probably what we're after, but all the work that I've seen > on biokerosene has been about making fuel for planes, where they're far more > worried about really, really, really high quality and reliability, not about > making it cheap as chips and easy to do at home. > > But yeah, if someone's got a way to make something that burns slower and > colder than diesel, I want to find out more. > > Jez > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wellington Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wellington-fire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
