[lucida-daz]

I've owned my lucida sence November and was thinking is it worth making my own bio diesel. Where would i get Methanol and whats the risk to my bus please

[Father Ted]

WHy bother?
These buses will run on filtered vegetable oil. No need for nasty chemical and dangerous processes.
Filter the oil nice and fine. Add a bit of petrol to thin it and pour it in. Then, start counting the cash

I run mine on new veggie oil in the winter as I can't filter, then filtered waste oil in the summer. Almost free fuel

[lucida-daz]

how long have you been dong it, any problems sence you changed fuel
how much petrol to oil,
how would i filter waste oil

it sounds easyer to do thank you

[Father Ted]

1) I've not been doing it long, only about 4 years Clive has been using veggie for centuries!!

2)Petrol to oil. Depends on weather. In winter about 20% petrol 80% oil. When it's really cold it then use that mix 70 / 30 with diesel.
In the summer I can get away without petrol or diesel being added, depends on how warm it is.

3)Have a rummage on the Alternatives Fuel Forum on here. There are a couple of ways of doing it

[lucida-daz]

thank you Father Ted

[Father Ted]

Father Ted, on 13 March 2010 - 06:28 PM, said:

3)Have a rummage on the Alternatives Fuel Forum on here. There are a couple of ways of doing it

Can't find the alternative fuels board. Maybe it got left behind when we changed forum software

I'll try to re-post my way of doing it. It isn't the only way of doing it, I'm not even convinced it is the best way to do it, but it works for me.
Give me 10 mins

[Sir Henry]

Father Ted, on 13 March 2010 - 06:36 PM, said:

Can't find the alternative fuels board. Maybe it got left behind when we changed forum software

I'll try to re-post my way of doing it. It isn't the only way of doing it, I'm not even convinced it is the best way to do it, but it works for me.
Give me 10 mins

It's in The Garage.

[Father Ted]

Sir Henry, on 13 March 2010 - 06:38 PM, said:

It's in The Garage.

Of course.

You'd have thought a moderator would have known that

[lucida-daz]

i though it was me not finding it

[Father Ted]

Nope, still can't find it.
I'll re-do it and put it in here.

[lucida-daz]

your a super STAR

[Father Ted]

lucida-daz, on 13 March 2010 - 07:02 PM, said:

your a super STAR

Aw shucks..I'm going red now

Here it is
http://www.estimaown..._0

[Lee Maidens]

just read the post from the link i couldnt work out if it was diesel or scrumpy you were makin lol. im very tempted i think il have a word with local kebab shops and slip them a couple of quid for a used barrel of oil.

[TITCH01101]

Lee Maidens, on 13 March 2010 - 09:06 PM, said:

just read the post from the link i couldnt work out if it was diesel or scrumpy you were makin lol. im very tempted i think il have a word with local kebab shops and slip them a couple of quid for a used barrel of oil.

i wouldnt offer to buy it off them, only if they wont part with it. i collect all of mine free of charge but i have to also take the empty tins but i have this covered aswell. i have recently found out from another forum that if i can collect 500 empty tins there worth £40 in scrap all i have to do is crush them so storage is easier my biggest problem is getting rid of the waste after its been filtered.

[naturalmum]

One thing I will add, having been caught out...

Never, never, never ever try to run on a mixture of biodiesel and vegetable oil... if the biodiesel isn't properly finished it will start to digest the veg and then you'll get a nasty gloopy mess in your fuel system!

Also discoverd that some of the really cheap sources of bio don't necessarily do the job properly, so as Father Ted says, if you can source it filter your own, then Veggie really is the way to go.