[Vwdiesel] Cinco De Mayo

[Brian and Ruth Decker]

Hi Bryan;

                The figure I see for cleaned and dewatered WVO is 7.6 lbs a
gallon. I figure that with my trailer and the fuel for the trip to
Pennsylvania and back I will weigh less than 4000 lbs when I start which the
1.6 Turbo diesel will handle I believe. Every day on the road on the trip I
will weigh about 200 lbs less than the day before. Around here most WVO at
the restaurants is spoken for. When you find one that you can get WVO from
you play the good neighbor and take care of them. Collecting the waste oil
from the back of restaurants is usually a groady job. Handling it to
centrifuge it is just greasy at best. Dumpster diving my way across country
is not my idea of fun.  My centrifuge which is the cat's meow for processing
the WVO to a purity the engine can handle is a simple but slow process. The
centrifuge will process about 2 gallons an hour cold. That is no problem at
home it will work 24 hours a day but where on a trip do I have 10 hours and
the electrical outlet plus disposing of the trash to process the next day's
fuel even if I could score the needed WVO?

                I have a 7000 mile trip planed this fall which will mean
going from Washington State to North Carolina then to my daughters in
Maryland for a week. I then go back to North Carolina the next week before
heading home. I will probably have my daughter try to collect about 100
gallons of WVO from her favorite oriental restaurant and have in her shed
waiting for me to process when I get there. The Centrifuge isn't too big or
too heavy to carry. 

Brian Decker

 

From: Bryan Belman [mailto:dieselwesty at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 9:38 AM
To: Brian and Ruth Decker; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Cinco De Mayo

 

Brian, I estimate a drum of WVO to be about 650 lbs.  I just moved 3 of them
in the past few weeks.  you want to cart 2 of them behind you in a trailer
for a major trip.  not the way to go.

stop at local restaurants and filter as you go.  not ideal, but the only way
I can see to do it.  tough to do unless the wife is Really into you setup.

 

 

Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp -- running :<)
92 Jetta 1.6 Eco-Turbo Diesel, 5sp -- running :<)
82 Diesel Westy 1.9NA -- running :<)
70 Type 1 stock Elm Green Beetle -- Under Restoration :-)

From: Brian and Ruth Decker <decker at toledotel.com>
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com 
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 3:21 AM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Cinco De Mayo


Hi Folks;

                Today is a day of celebration. I finished my two tank heated
Veggie system in my 1990 VW 1.6 Turbo diesel Fox Wagon. I have a 24 gallon
WVO tank mounted where the back seat was. I have a centrifuge
(simplecentrafuge.com <http://simplecentrafuge.com/> ) to clean the used fry
oil from a local restaurant.
About the only difference I can see in  running on veggie is that if I stand
outside while the car is idling it smells like French fries. The power seems
the same.  As a preliminary assessment I believe it has lowered my EGT when
I'm hard on the throttle by about 50 degrees over running diesel. I still
have a fully functioning diesel setup. I figure that it will take me about a
years worth of driving on WVO to amortize the investment in the centrifuge
and the conversion cost. Since that is money already spent I'm going to
really enjoy every time I fill my veggie tank for almost nothing. Ruth and I
have a summer trip planed to Western Pennsylvania which will mean about
5000 miles round trip. My next project is to build a box on a boat trailer I
have so that I can haul a couple of 55 gallon drums of cleaned WVO. With
that and my 24 gallon onboard tank I should be able to drive 5000 miles on
less than  one tank of diesel which will be used when shutting down for a
period of time. On cold startup I should be able to switch from diesel to
WVO after 5 or 6 miles. Let me see. Toledo Washington to Slippery Rock
Pennsylvania and back for less than 40 dollars worth of diesel. Now that
sounds reasonable.

Brian Decker

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