ABC 730 report

well,
when half the chemicals used by people who dont have the correct equipment are used for drug manufacture, something has to be done to police the fuel making, this costs money, so someone has to pay, and it may as well be the people who are being policed.

Would be interesting to see how someones house insuranace goes if the place burns, and they found out the person was making and storing fuel......

Mate,
Suppose this will apply to the little guy as well
A chance for another tax? you can't let that slip by!
Some people have a bloody hide making enviromentally friendly fuel for themselves :-)
Probably have an "oil squad" in 10 years time, to sniff out illicit fuel manufacturing
Glenn B.

"Backyarder" - yup that's me. Stikck to the golden rule -"Ya gotta catch me first"!!

Bilbo

Hi all, i missed that report,, So what are the ingregients needed to make diesel fuel, Can you drink it? gotta be cheaper that scotch LOL,,,,

Boidiesel would be a fatal mistake in any modern diesel particularly any direct injection model like a jackaroo. The current diesel motors struggle to run on Australian refined diesel without subjecting them to animal fat!!
Biodiesel - great way to save $20.00 on the way to a new $8,000.00 pump and injectors.

Michael_FNQ,

With respect, I suggest you do some research on biodiesel. I've worked in Oil Refineries, in Operations Depts, for 30 years and I now make my own bio-d. I can tell you which one is best for your engine. While your at it, research Otto Diesel ( the man who invented the diesel cycle engine) and discover what fuel it was originally designed to run on. While your still at it, have a look at some of the astonishing kilometres that bio-d vehicles have done without a grain of trouble. There are a few heavy haulage trucking companies in "Oz" that use bio-d exclusively. These trucks do more kms in a month than most of us do in year, without a problem. There are a few minor things that you have to do to avoid these minor problems, such as fuel hoses and a few initial filter changes to get the crud out of the system. But after that, no problem.

It's a fact that when low sulphur diesel (0.2 sulphur content spec as opposed 0.5 spec) was introduced into Europe there were some spectacular high pressure diesel fuel pump failures. These failures were traced to the low sulphur content of the new spec fuel. The sulphur was actually acting as lubricant within the close tolerance pump elements. When the spec was reduced - pumps seized. As a result, it was recommended that bio-d be blended with the new low sulphur diesel to replace the lost lubricant of the suplhur. 40% of all diesel sold in Germany is bio-d. Mostly a blend of varying ratios but some is 100% bio-d.

Check it out.

Oh - and I was disel mechanic in my younger years.

Bilbo

Zapper,

Give me an assurance you're not from the Australian Customs and Excise!! :0). Email me and I'll send you a few links.

Bilbo

Bilbo, I'm researching biodiesel for an article. Would like to talk to you about it, anonymously if you like, but I need a couple of examples of 4WDers that actually use it. Can you help?

thanks