Thread: homemade diesel

Originally Posted by graceysdad

I think with the way the futures looking for Petrol etc, if you still want to enjoy going bush and getting lost out in the never never then the diesel has some benifits, it will take some time to perfect but eventually someone will crack it and come up with the ideal oil mix for a dieso that we can make at home from waste etc, now the idea of an old Series with a Perkins Dieso running on recycled cooking oil has long appealed to me, this isnt new technology, I have seen diesos run on coconut oil but the extraction process makes it undesirable even though coconuts are plentiful up North, so this is an idea well worth following for the future years

follow it up now, 14 coconuts= 1 litr oil = .85 ltr bio diesel, or there abouts, the only difrence is boil the water out of it first.

on methanol if you cap your reactour and plum of the gas, you should get upto 50% of your metanol back

Originally Posted by shorty943

What do you think the price per litre difference is. Being a former Speedway racer, I know Methanol is not cheap.
BTW. I run the Isuzu farm tractor in Bio-Diesel from the local SA Farm Fuels outlet, a mate of mine, a B-double driver wont go near the stuff, and he says most of the truck industry is like minded. Mind you a tank refill for him is over $1000 a pop.

if you fill up at SAFE? north adelaide, after hours, theres big rigs lined up for a drink