Buying biodiesel

Go to a Printing company in you area and ask for an old 1 that was used for IPA or alchole as it will be very clean. You shouldn't have to pay for it as they have to dump it.

I tried Biodiesel, what i found was that i dropped alot of power and also my fuel economy when up, for me thats not a good thing as i tow a heavy campertrailer and going up hills i was using a lower gear than before, so i stopped using it.

Baz.

what is the price that u guys are buying the biodiesel at?

I have been running B100 Biodiesel from SAFF in SA for about 60K's now - about 80% of the time.

Power and efficiency have been pretty much the same. The environment is much better and it smells sweet.

Can't help you on where to get 200l drums though - try the www.biofuelsforum.com and see if you get some help there.

The power problems occasionally reported may be attributable to clogged up fuel filters with the fossil fuel sediments washed out of the system by the Biodiesel.

Ciao for now
Andrew.

Hi mikeyandmary,
Andrew at Rutherford has clean drums for sale.
Give him a ring before you go to site and arrange a time for the fill.
All you need to supply is the transport and the cash.

Geoff.

A better bet is to go to the nursery/stock feed places that sell the blue 120l plastic drums. We use them and they are much easier to manhandle when full.
They are impervious to the biodiesel too, cost around $10 -15 depending on where you get them.

Don't get a galvanised (zinc coated) drum as the Bio D eats the zink off rather quickly. Just a plain old painted oil drum is best.

On the subject of 200L drums, here is something that may interest you. We have friends here that have houseboats and they fuel these things from a trailer of 200L drums. Recently they were advised by the local authorities - Council I think - that they were no longer allowed to do this as they were not qualified to transfer such large quantities of fuel without approriate satety training and so-on. Funny thing is that they can do it if they use 20 L drums as these are not considered "commercial quantity" I think the local servos were instructed that they cannot allow people to fill the 200L drums.

Basically this seems to be a plan to try and force them to use the local tanker delivery bloke who charges like a wounded bull. Gives them a choice of making an easy task more difficult by using smaller drums or paying more for fuel.

Wonder if any of these type Nazi's will be onto you if you start carrying bio around in 44's on the trailer. Wonder what the regs are about how much fuel you can carry before it is considered dangerous???

Muddy

I note that in WA some Gull servos sell a 20% biodiesel mix.

"BioDiesel now available

On 3 April 2006, Gull Petroleum started selling B20 fuel (80% diesel, 20% bio-diesel) at a number of their service stations."