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William said:
When you say it runs on veg oil, surely it would first have to be processed into biodiesel?
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Hell no! :D

No need to involve methanol or sodium hydroxide here.

People often forget Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on vegetable oils, he famously ran an engine on peanut oil at the Worlds Fair in 1900.
 
Amp34 said:
So will it be cheaper per watt than your electricity company? I suppose it will depend on the fuel? Or is that not the point?
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The fuel is free and pretty much unlimited, so it will pay for itself in electricity and once i've fitted the exhaust heat exchanger, it will provide basic central heating too, which will save us £15/week in gas too.
 
SB118 said:
Hell no! :D

No need to involve methanol or sodium hydroxide here.

People often forget Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on vegetable oils, he famously ran an engine on peanut oil at the Worlds Fair in 1900.
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Hmmm, its going to be a good workout for you then to turn those flywheels to get the compression to get the first ingnition of the oil then! :D
 
Amp34 said:
So youll be a regular sight at the local fish and chip shops and garages then? :p
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I picked up 180l of used oil from one takeaway today :)

William said:
Hmmm, its going to be a good workout for you then to turn those flywheels to get the compression to get the first ingnition of the oil then! :D
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That why they invented the blowtorch ;)
 
It's a bit barky right now (still quiet compared to Dave), but that's due to the interior of the pepperpot silencer rusting to bits and falling out when i shook it :eek:

Once i've got a proper exhaust box on it and tied it to a big lump of concrete it should settle down nicely.
 
You could some how conect the fly wheel to the back wheel of a bike and peddal on the bike to get it going :D
It woul.d be much easyer then doing it by hand :)
 
how exactly have you connected it to your house powergrid? are you an electrician or did you get someone in to do it - or is it just a lot simpler than i am imagining?

it all sounds great. i'm just wondering why everybody doesn't have one?
 
Well, that settles it. Looks like I've got to go searching for one for myself. Don't think the wife's going to be too happy about me dragging ANOTHER dirty, greasy contraption home to play with!!

I mean, between the truck, Yoda, my two windmills, the riding lawn mower I'm converting to a go-kart for my son, and the outdoor woodburning stove, I've got quite the collectiion going on!! :p

pics of all of the above are available upon request.....
 
Now I remember seeing one back in an island in Greece, I don't think I have any photos. But if I remember I will post them on July when I am there, it's very similar to yours, I think a bit smaller. Also I distinctivly remember the smell it had, it didn't smell like diesel, something more "heavy" if that makes sence, more sticky too.
 
Mickey_D said:
Oh, and SB118. Here's one for you.... :D
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Too new & too fast! 3600rpm :eek: There's a guy buying every slwo speed engine he can find on ebay and importing them to the US. New EPA regs mean that it tricky getting new listeroid engine in to the country now, whereas the 30-50 year old original listers are grandfathered in.
 
Mickey D, would this one suit you? :D

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Check out www.utterpower.com for a great set of articles about the engines, alternators and common mods.
 
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