Hi Herb, I didn’t see a picture but you are in the archives now … Always a good thing … Hope the chemicals are satisfying the experts and you can get on with the next phase and have your cells put back in … I’m looking forward to making the trip your way so you can ride in someone elses pile of junk on wood chunks … The left side of my left shin just got feeling back in it tonight and it isn’t pain … whew … Feels good … Terry L uploaded pictures (I took today) to my blog of my old trailer which I am re-vamping. I plan to put the new gasifier on it and add the shroud after install. The drum I was using for a cyclone had 5 inches of water in it. I will probably still use it as a hay filter and get rid of the garbage can filter. The cooler is still in great shape … Mike
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I will have a visitor tomorrow driving up from south Georgia . None other than Steve Cross ( cross sawmill ) that is interested in SWEM.
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Sounds like a fun and interesting day Wayne. It will be good to have him on board here.
Just got back from the Nowthen Threshing Show. A lot of ‘junk’ vendors. So I picked up some goodies. Here’s a video of some tractors.
I could spend days looking at all that wonderful old Iron! Thanks for posting!
Briquetting machines will be demonstrated. Georga World Congress Center, don’t forget to take your checkbook.
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Hey Carl ,
The more I look at the Briquetting machines and prices the more I like my wood chunker !!
HWWT
This was my project this week. We just started to collect used frying oil from restaurants upon their request. Finding out there is value in this and a productive way of disposing this waste, I decided to see what the quality was after I pick up the product. We took a sample and let it self separate over the weekend and the first picture indicates our results. Knowing that if I can get just the pure oil, I needed a way of obtaining this.
With the help of DOW this past year and having extra drums laying around now, I figured out a way of putting a window in a drum. Today I will install a one and a half inch valve to drain off the oil. I will install a 3/4" valve on the bottom to drain off the water. Then fill it up again.
Looks good. Does it hold water?
If ya look really close, I think it is mostly full?
Clean oil can be run in some diesel engines with just settling and filtering.
Yer right again Terry. It looks full.
Yes, it’s about 1 1/2" from the top, and is water tight. This barrel will stay at the shop and wee will screw a 2" pipe to the lid that will drop down to about 2" from the bottom. we can then drain another barrel that we pick up from a restaurant in slowly to bring the oil up to the level of a drain valve I put near the top. The clean oil will drain into a 325 gallon tote. We can get $1-1.25/ pound and there’s 7.5 pounds per gallon. Yes they use this to make bio-diesel and for feed stock.
This is my low cost version to separate water and ‘such’ from the veggie oil. It think it would be easy to scale up from here if there ever becomes a high demand for this such as a dumpster. The good thing about this is the ‘less desirables’ in the middle will get pumped out by our truck after a few cycles to allow to start over.Tomorrow we will fill it up and let it sit for the weekend to start this venture.
I post this on DOW because without you guys here, this option would not have been thought of. Last year this opportunity was dropped because a plug in version starts at about $5000 and takes a great deal of electricity to separate everything out. I am expressing my gratitude. If you don’t mind, I will post a pic next week to show if all turns out as planned.
Let er rip, Bill. Gravity is your friend.
Hey BillS
With your commercial plumbing service to resterants this is a service add on. Make sence.
Your $1-1.25 a pound for a 7.5 pound gallon sounds “fishy” though. $1.-1.25 is the going rate per GALLON for base Bio stocks here.
I operated a shop engine coolant recycing/reconditioning set-up for a couple of years. Turned our $0.80 a gallon “waste” to chain-of custody dispose of into a $3.00 sellable.
Watch your in-flow to out-flow rates for stirring. We we better off drop down sucking up off clarified to prevent this.
Our operation was outside with coolants so only a winter problem with the new water make up side of it. That had to be religiously brought inside. Winter would slow down dramically the separations/setting time. And we were chemically adding to participate out minerals amd metals salts. Very, very slow then cold and thick. Our real severe problem outside was summer heated leakage’s. We used white plastic barrels. Cheap, cheap, cheapest pads, even by the pound scrap clothing for first pass corse filtering.
I’d think you’ll have to set up inside heated to make this year around go.
Assume it will always leak; and capacity dam around for this. Be messy, slippery sliming the whole inside floor. Find out what you can put into this to make it a shovel-able muck at least that could be dumpster accepted for spills clean ups. This will always happen.
best of sucsess
Steve Unruh
from a rained out yard sale. Honda Gen head. 4.5 KW with a 12 volt tap for battery charging. $70. Maybe I can rig up an engine pulley on the Tracker to run it on wood. I got it mainly for my compact tractor that runs the buzz saw so I can go to the woods and use my electric chain saws.
Or this case Don, specific gravity. 
Great find/price Don! Is it bi-directional?
Yes Steve, the proof is in the pudding. I do know the demand is increasing and it’s all under our nose. The reason I’m starting at a small scale is to find out the ‘for sures’. Worst case scenerio is stay small and make biodiesel for my company’s use.
