Well, Bill, you better keep up with collecting your oil! I've had the
same restaurant for the past six years, and they just went out of
business last week with no advance notice. So now I'm scrambling to
find a new restaurant so I can maintain my fuel-making momentum. I've
probably given away over 500 gallons of WVO over the years, and now
I'm down to four 55 gallon HDPE drums. The timing is poor because
finally a family member has decided to drive on biodiesel, and this
will run me short in no time.
Your oil heater sounds like a great project. With your mechanical
skills, you should have it going in time for this winter. Go for it!
Here's a very long thread on Infopop that you can research. It's over
20 pages long! But it's called "List your KOH/methanol suppliers
here". Even if it's a bit dated, you may find some leads.
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/719605551/m/486109642/p/5
Maud
> Maud, same Texaranaka, I called this company yesterday, the lady
>was suppose to call me back. I can get it Both at Parker in Ft
>Smilth Ark. but it is 3 1/3 hour drive, one way. I can get the KOH
>from Dallas, but also a 3 hour drive, one way. I was getting
>methanol , can still from a racing team in both Texaranaka and maby
>,Paris, texas, but not the KOH. but the guy there is Very foul muth
>with 4 letter words, and i would have my 16 yr old grand daughter
>with me . So I am hoping to find a place with in 100 miles of my
>location.
> We hasve a couple of chemical companies local, fertilizers
>mostly for farming. But they become very with drawn, do not want to
>talk about methanol ,lye, or KOH, I suppose due to so many meth labs
>being here. But I am thinking, we have been doing this 2 1/2 years,
>you can clearly smell the difference in exhaust, and it has drawn a
>few comments, so I am going to try and reconvince them to order it
>for me, depending on shhipping. I had one company agent in Paris
>offered to get it for me out of Paris yesterday, from Indinia, I
>think it was. But by the time shipping, hasmat, and lift gate fees
>where added, I would be better off driving to Ft Smith.
> My son use to go get all this stuff for me, but he has gone
>back over the road for six months. Sometimes it is hard to
>appriciate a loud mouthed, hard working son, until he is not
>present. On the other hand, suddenly our 30 gallon a week use rate,
>has dropped to about 17 or 18 gallons a week. And with one Grand
>daught, now gone off to college, and only one left at home, I expect
>it to drop. That may sound Great, considering all my past complaing
>about family using fuel faster than i could keep up with supply. But
>it is just as bad, maby worse, being an old man left at home along,
>or I miss them.
> If you think back, a few months ago, I had a shortage of oil.
>Now I have one gallons, plus 30 gallons of finished fuel. And I have
>another 50 gallons needing to be picked up. If it keeps up, I will
>have to build a decent oil heater for the house, get rid of $600
>worth of winter heating bills. Or will I become a has been. ; as I
>was looking at the saw mill this morning, which has not been run in
>almost a year, logs rotting on the ground.
> Thanks for the reply, Bill C
> --- In wastewatts@yahoogroups.com, Maud Essen <maud@...> wrote:
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>> Bill, is Texaranaka anywhere near Texarkana? If so, there's a big
> > company in Texarkana that you might call:
>>
>> http://www.abernathycompany.com/
>>
>> Is there a farm co-op in your area that will order things in bulk?
>>
>>
>> Maud
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