Waste Veggie Oil as diesel fuel.

I wonder what that $6,000 represents in in terms of an hourly rate for the effort of scrounging up the oil and filtering and decanting it.
It's an 'after tax" figure so you can add approx 30% to the result.
Interesting, especially for someone who is time rich and income poor.

Rolly,

At least the fuel was cheap driving from "Depot to Depot" LOL. It was also a little messy and he had to carry a fair few buckets around with him as well as a big filter not unlike an industrial vacuum clear filter such as those found in a wet vac. There is also a modification required which is a heater as to allow the oil to "thin out" as to make it flow better. He also needed to run on diesel for five minutes at the start as to get the heater hot then he would switch over to the WVO so there is added cost in setting this up. This also had to happen in reverse I.e when switching off you need to run on diesel for 5 mins to ensure all the WVO was removed from the line to prevent blockages in the injectors due to a sort of "solidified oil" over night when it cooled down again. Would I do it to my 4.2 Patrol. Nope. If it blew up the $6000 you saved would have gone up in smoke less alone the muck around factor of not having a car etc.

Goona

Yeah, but they were driving a 'cruiser not a PooTroll, so I guess they had less delicacy to take into account. :D

Stand and deliver
Yer veggie oil or yer liver !

No chance of us all doing it, Tony.
It's a little "inconvenient"; and we all love our conveniences, don't we ?

Good one, Footy.
Would that be fried - with onions?

Then there would be backpackers going missing who had been rendered down for their fat ...

Hmm...never thought of that. Maybe a very painful way for a few of us to lose weight!

And the pricing of diesel would become very fishy...indeed once the local fish & chip man gets involved.

I did read this story when they first started out and it is good to see that it is working for them. I guess it proves what can be done/achieved.

But at the end of the day, you've pulled into camp.....decant the wine or the oil? Hmmm pass me the bottle thanks.


Good luck out there.....

You can always choose to use low cholesterol/high omega veg oil from a fish shop ;)

I knew of a guy who used homemade bio in his 80...one story is of the fuel solidifying at low temps...he had to wait for a bit of sun to start one morning. Apparently it can be cured by running a bit of normal diesel with the bio.