"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , Grimly Curmudgeon
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ron Lowe saying
something like:

Consequently, I now have several litres of used groundnut oil for
disposal.

I was considering pouring it into the LR Discovery's diesel tank, at a
ratio of say 2 litres waste oil to 80 litres of real diesel.

Or if I was shy of that, then into the 500 Litre tank of our big
generator at work.

Comments?

Filter, filter, filter. Down to 5 microns, if possible.
No problem with running clean, dewatered waste veg oil in an older IDI
or even DI system, but I don't and wouldn't do it on a modern CR system.

I have a 2 cylinder Lister on a generator, what are your thoughts on
cooking oil in that? Not that I have a lot of it, but it would be good to
find a use for the old stuff.
How easy is it to filter down to 5 microns?
Start and warm up on diesel first or is their a %mix of derv and cooking
oil that is OK?


At the Golf Club I was a mechanic at a few lives ago we used to run 4 cyl
Massey 235s on a mix of 60% chip oil (From the restaurants) mixed with 30%
Dino and the last 10% was a drop of 4 star.
Mixed up thoroughly in a 45 gal drum, left for a week to settle and siphoned
off to a clean 5 gal plastic drum.

Filter?....... That's what the inline ones used to do innit?

As a low revving DI engine they ran well, and I only changed the filters
annually to nothing lost on performance or cost.

Got some increased patronage at the restaurants though as the chippy smell
used to make the golfers hungry ;-)