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Subject:Re: biodiesel
From:David Dalbey
Date:Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:26:38 -0700

PLEASE BE CAREFUL!! I have a friend that now brews it for resale several hundred gallons at a time.  When he started out he was doing a small quantity, stirring it with an electric drill & paint stirring attachment & had a little explosion when vapors were ignited by a spark on the drill.  Lost a good portion of his arm hair.  Since then he's been using compressed air rather than electric!

David

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Arthur Sauerhaft 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:42 AM
  Subject: biodiesel

  Hey all you volks interested in biodiesel check out:
  http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_link.html
  all the resources are on this page
  I also ordered my scale and 50ml beakers also syringes (with 1ml gradations)
  and droppers from Delta-ed.com. Got some big buckets and big rubber gloves
  ( the heavy black kind) at a local restaurant supply.You also need a paint
  stirrer (the small kind for an electric drill), methyl alcohol from a local
  speed shop, and pure lye (Red Devil  works fine , don't use Drano crystals
  it has aluminum added)BE CAREFUL and feel free to ask more.
  -Arthur

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