Biodiesel Solutions

[Stefan]

Hey guys,

I ran across this website, take a look and give me your thoughts. The price is a little steep but for three or four guys splitting the cost it might be worth it? Please keep it positive!

http://www.biodieselsolutions.com/home/home.asp

[teester]

For the average guy it's a ripoff. At least that's what I have read here and other sites. If something goes wrong you have a blob of plastic and stuff all over the floor or ground! If you can screw pipes together and use a little creativity you can do it yourself for less than $400, and that is using stainless steel valves! With brass valves, which I didn't use because they will corrode with veg oil and biodiesel, you could build it for less than $200.

Go to Journey to Foreverwebsite and look for the Appleseed reactor which uses an old water heater for the reactor. You can follow links till your eyes fall out and learn how to build and operate it safely.

I bought a used 55Gal drum to wash with for $6 and added about $20 worth of pipe fittings and a hose. Don't look like something Nasa built but it works!

If you don't want to take the time to learn you surely don't want to try and brew it yourself! You will be in for all sorts of surprizes for the first few times if you don't do your homework. If you don't have the time but have the money, that's a different matter.

[girlmark]

I asked the journeytoforever guy to take my designs off the website after a disagreement (I'll have a website with my own homebrew stuff and that article will be back up soon, in a better format), but it looks likke he posted someone else's writeup of my diesign, which is fine. The APpleseed stuff is currently at www.veggieavenger.com/media

Here's a couple of threads on the problems with Biodiesel Solutions/ the FuelMeister:

http://www.forums.biodieselnow.com/t...?TOPIC_ID=3285

and
http://www.forums.biodieselnow.com/t...?TOPIC_ID=3263

Mark

[Stefan]

Mark and Guzzler,

Thank you for your opinions, right now the whole Bio-Diesel and WVO fuel craze is a little over whelming. Mark I live down in southern California and the first chance I get to go to one of your work shops I'm there.

thanks again you two!

[girlmark]

Hi Stefan,

There's a lot of peopel interested in this stuff in Southern California! They have an email discussion list: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/socalbiodiesel . They have events and get-to-gethers pretty regularly.

There is a homebrew biodiesl class taught in San Diego on the 20th of Nov by one of them, who is very knowledgeable. His contact info is kalib@energyevolutions.ws

Have fun!
mark

[Stefan]

Thank you very much Mark, I have two diesel trucks that are dying for bio diesel, or maybe my wallet is crying over fuel cost! Thanks again!!