Cooking Oil

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Grendle
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I've had an interesting day. Met a chap with a soft top 460 300GD got chating and he showed me his Twin tank conversion which means he can run on 100% re-cycled Veg oil. Very clever use of heat exchangers and solenoids. He also had an electric fuel heater off a Renault that cuts in below 6oC (nice Kit ? whats it off???).

I'd stopped using Cooking Oil when the price went up :cry: , but this has me interested again.

He put me onto a local company that sells used filtered oil at 70p/l. I went round and had a deko
Company is called Plymouth Biofuels Ltd
www.implosionresearch.com/cir2

Didn't learn much more than I already knew...G will run on 60% with no mods....but I think I'm going to look at a low tech twin tank set up..with home built heat exchanger and a boat style switch over manifold.

Will be buying Oil from there from now on :lol:

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Citreon BX diesel from 88,89,04 ie facelift (85 was not in the same place if it had one) had an inline fuel heater .. it was mounted on the bulkhead in front of the driver behind the engine. I never worked out how it worked .. just saw a bulge some 5" long and 3/4" with fuel passing through it and a big 3mm wire going to it (or two?). It would make sense that it was automatic on temperature but I always assumed it was relay driven from somewhere else .. but there was no air sensor so it might be the one you want.

As you can see .. too many BX diesels passed my hands .. 2 are still on the road with new owners and heading for 300k miles..

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tesco are selling PURA rape seed oil for £0.56p a ltr, was £0.46 last week !!!!!!!!!!!. Runs fine in my mitsi.

Grendle
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I'll look for a scraper BX thanks for the pointer. The heater I saw just had two wires for power very neat!

Peter I'm off to Tesco!!

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i wonder if anyone on here is in the market of vegetables etc. best mates family supply chains of restaurants and im sure they can buy drums of oils, wonder how much they can get drums of the stuff for?

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Hi Grendle,

I too had an interesting day yesterday in Dublin.

While queuing at the bank in Dublin I spied a truck with Used Vegetable Oil Collector written on the side. I gave the number a buzz to see if I could buy the used stuff or the cleaned up used stuff for my soon to be operational G.

What a story of impending bureaucratic nightmares.

Apparantly you can currently buy or indeed collect used veg oil as you like. However some Irish councils have recently hired investigators to enter restaurants chippies etc to find out whom is collecting their waste oil.

If it is a normal punter like myself collecting then you can rest easy now or wait for a couple of months time when they will administer heavy fines if you do not have...
* A waste collection license
* A registered waste collection vehicle
* Public liability of E12m
* Waste leak liability of E12m
* The correct waste collection training

and of course when you have filtered the oil you owe the excise man a lot of money.

Thank God we voted the Greens in for coalition, or where would we be !!!

It seems Lidl's best offers the least exposure to upcoming bureaucracy at least this side of the water.

Cheers

marcus
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well gosh with all that super efficient buroracy? burroarcy, paper punching
how come the waste collection ? disposal operators have been able to tip tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish quite illegally north of the border.
and we get to pay for the clean-up
pissed off
Marcus

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Aye Marcus
But bertie and biffo team payed for our new border roads
and motorways (he cant remember were the stg came from ) lol

marcus
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True Chris true
And I only spotted this yesterday, in a DoE publication
Blowing about the recently opened dual carrigeway on the Belfast Dublin link
However I also noted that the Derry to Newry road is to be dualled throughout.
Whilst here in Ballymoney on the A26, we still got to suffer a single carrigeway.
that bit of motorway, the M22, around Ballymena is getting lonely by now