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[Kenneth E. Oldrid]

Glad to hear it Sandy!
I have just hit 2000 miles on my newly rebuilt 86 jetta. Half of those miles
were on used vege oil. Engine operation is identical for the most part. i see
less smoke with the vege oil, and the engine runs a little quieter. The idle
does seems a little slow to respond on vege. The smell is a lot better! I'm not
making biodiesel here; just burning 100% pure used free canola oil. It is
heated and filtered, and burns without a problem.

Next I plan on converting my diesel vanagon to digest a vege diet! Just as soon
as I can repair the hydraulic clutch system.


Ken
>


> I brought home my first load of dirty fryer fat today, the learning curve is
> steep. now to fashion a water separator, strainer, filter apparatus. Then on
> with the methyl esters.
>
> Obviously the way to make this bearable is to reduce "decanting" to a
> minimum by using plumbing and pumps.
>
> I really like the setup (in England, I think) where he pulls a vacuum on the
> retort to vaporize the extra meth, condenses it, and collects it in a tank
> for re-use.
> So much more sensible (and safer) than boiling it off to atmosphere and much
> simpler than water washing.
>
> I have a domestic hot water heater ready to go to work.
>
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