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    Quote Originally Posted by sheerluck View Post
    Mike, my memory of the legislation in the UK was effectively anything that could be chucked in the tank of a vehicle to power it could be considered a fuel, and was therefore expected to incur fuel duties at the appropriate rate. I remember stories on the news of people being busted for dodging the tax, for home brew biodiesel, being pulled over by a copper if their car smelt of fish and chips.....

    Ok, so it was a few years since I left there, and things may have changed, but the world of excise collection normally does not.
    How long ago has it been?

    It used to be the case that to legally use Straight Vegetable Oil as a vehicle fuel you had to pay duty on every litre that you set aside for road fuel purposes. However, since July 2007 if you are using/producing less than 2500 litres per year of SVO which is not duty paid then you are not required to pay duty on this fuel. This essentially means that for a business with low mileage use or for personal motoring, provided that it is not excessive, then the use of SVO can be duty free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike_ie View Post
    How long ago has it been?
    May 2007 (though moved out here permanently in Nov 2007)

    Wow. UK customs and excise changing rules. I never thought I'd see the day.

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    I think the opening debate was regarding the TECHNICAL issues, not whether your specific Nanny State ALLOWS you to..........

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    My humble apologies jakeslouw for taking the debate SO far off topic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sheerluck View Post
    My humble apologies jakeslouw for taking the debate SO far off topic.
    Nah mate it's all good.

    But with varying legalities it is a pointless exercise to debate what your specific government will do about it.

    Let's stick with the physical aspects?

    Jakes Louw

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    Quote Originally Posted by jakeslouw View Post
    ......Let's stick with the physical aspects?

    Jakes Louw
    Works for me! I piped up with my little bit, as I was reading very seriously about doing the WVO/SVO conversion back in the UK, where fuel prices are mad. But I gave up on it as the legislation was just ridiculous at the time.

    Just going to shut and listen now.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jakeslouw View Post
    - lubricity: yes, fair point, hence my query regarding 2SO
    - taxed fuels: yes, but surely using UVO or home-brew biodiesel is bypassing the fuel supply hence also illegal? It's like fermenting methanol or ethanol in the back yard and chucking it in the 2.25 petrol Landy?
    - customs and excise: in Africa we have enough work for those buggers, they don't have time to check private vehicles. Sure, they check fuel depots, but if I run my diesel engine on paraffin, nobody will know. How many C&E officers in the Outback checking fuel tanks?

    IMHO if I want to run my car on hi grade jack daniels I should be allowed to......
    FWIW: check out Running Jet A1 (fuel) in a TD5 posts #31 & #32 re. use of kero ( LR did their TD5 injector development using kero as a worse case scenario). Tdi "wolf" can also use kero with some lubricating agent apparently...
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    Have been running used cooking oil for a while now, just have been filtering it down to 10 micron and then putting it into the tank! No heaters, no solvents.. No problems!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oddsoul View Post
    Have been running used cooking oil for a while now, just have been filtering it down to 10 micron and then putting it into the tank! No heaters, no solvents.. No problems!
    How smoothly does it run until the oil is hot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsperka View Post
    How smoothly does it run until the oil is hot?
    Runs well, some days it does take a few extra cranks to get it going but when it starts it is smooth running. Can take a video and show you what I mean.. Just have to wait for her to cool down now!

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