At 10:00 AM -0800 1/12/00, John Rodgers wrote:
>I saw in the past an article showing a man driving a VW Rabbit diesel which
>used left over frying oil. He collected oil from numerous restaurants,
>strained it well and added something like 10 or 15% keroseene.

I read a similar thing about a fellow who did this with a Mercedes diesel.
If I recall correctly, he did not add anything to the oil, just ran the
straight deep-frying veg oil.  He may have processed it somehow, but I
don't think so.  I hope he strained it!

If memory serves (ugh!), the article was a piece in the parts catalog for
the Parts Place (in MI, I think?).  The catalog it was in was a couple
years ago, at least.  (They offered a 10% discount to members of the old
v@l list, as I recall.)  I've long since chucked the catalog, but perhaps
some pack-rats on the list may have a copy banging around.  (Psst: Unca
Joel?  ;-)  ).

I guess this means diesel vanagon drivers in Britain never have to worry
about running out of fuel!  [scrambling to get my nomex underwear on!]

T.

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Tobin Copley           Bowen Island, BC, Canada       tobin.copley@ubc.ca

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