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I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:41 pm
by g_man1972
So I finally find a source for WVO, a good quantity of WVO. As I am making arrangements for pick up schedules and so forth he tells me its in tubs. Hmmm I have never seen them in anything but those cubes, so I enquire and he reads the lable again and finds its a Canola soy mix. Knowing my luck can I assume that this is useless?
Cheers
Gary
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:11 pm
by BCDelica
Does tubs mean it's in those big (5 gallons) buckets? And why would it be useless, there's no problem with Soy oil as a fuel.
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Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:13 pm
by BCDelica
And yes I do have veggie filling station envy for Adam's set up!
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:31 pm
by g_man1972
Not sure of the size, but buckets sounds right. I have only heard of people using 100% canola oil, never seen soy and a search of the site doesn't turn up anything either. But if your saying that a soy/canola mixture is fine then I am a happy guy again:-). Yea, that's a heck of a set up Adam has, if your reading is that what you are using (soy mix) as well?
Thanks for the quick reply.
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:34 pm
by The Pinkfingers
Pretty much any kind of filtered oil will work. BC Delica drove on used motor oil at one point I think.
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:36 pm
by jessef
The Pinkfingers wrote:Pretty much any kind of filtered oil will work. BC Delica drove on used motor oil at one point I think.
That would be I and it made mine run as smooth as a baby's bottom.
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:27 am
by g_man1972
Well it sounds like I am in business then, how exciting! Now I just have to get the kit in and figure out a filtering system for as affordable as I can.
Thanks as usual for your input and allaying my concerns
Gary
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:13 am
by BCDelica
jfarsang wrote:The Pinkfingers wrote:Pretty much any kind of filtered oil will work. BC Delica drove on used motor oil at one point I think.
That would be I and it made mine run as smooth as a baby's bottom.
Well you don't have kids so I can understand the exaggeration; but it ran so quietly on 100 % used motor oil it hardly sounded like a diesel. Used motor oil will fill up filters quite fast with fines, so you can save it up and use it near the end of you filters life. Diesel oil is of course dirty then gas engined vehicles, and I was running it at 100% in a WVO vehicle (I once had).
http://www.delica.ca/forum/waste-motor- ... -2884.html
Jesse used tranny fuild mixed with diesel to run his Deli.
Re: I found oil... oh wait, maybe not
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:32 am
by username
as long as it's liquid it should work. hopefully they're not using that hydrogenated stuff at that place.