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John Rudd:

--- Quote from: Bigbadbugga on September 14, 2014, 01:09:56 PM ---


Anyone else play with stationary engines?


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Yes I do.....
I have 4 Petter A1's in need of rebuilding and 2 Villiers gensets....being rebuilt...and three more Villiers engines needing parts.....

AdeV:
I have a serious Lister diesel fetish.... in fact, I just had to (very very reluctantly) sell 4 just to make some room... I kept my Start-o-Matic engine/base and a spares engine though...

I also have an old Villiers-powered ex-Army compressor. The engine's pants, but the compressor is great.

I had originally planned to run at least a compressor from the Lister(s), now that I have a supply of chip fat from a nearby restaurant, I think I'll invest in some biodiesel kit, and use the resulting fuel to reduce my electricity usage - or, if the centrifuge ever gets built, I might even have a go running the thing on neat waste veg oil.

As usual, too many projects, not enough time - and, currently, nowhere near enough space....

krv3000:
well my old engine is a tiny tim from ww2 they wher fited in to tanks to charge the batteres

DavidA:
Ade,

... I think I'll invest in some biodiesel kit,..

I'll be interested to hear how you get on with making your bio.  I made my own for a long time,  but haven't bothered recently.  I must get back into it as it really made a big difference to my fuel costs.

I made mine in small 15 Litre batches as this was a convenient size for using 20 Litre poly drums as reactors.

Dave.

AdeV:
Fortunately, I have an endless supply of plastic or metal 205l barrels (some legit, some "off the back of the lorry"), the only downside is the chippy/caff that I get my veg oil from is very sparing in his use, so at current rates it looks like I'll get around 600l/year from him.

One option is to go to a wholesaler/cash'n'carry and buy cheap new veg oil, the prices are now well under £1/litre, and are pretty much par with red diesel (around 95p/litre last time I bought a drum). I don't know if used motor oil can be converted to diesel using the same process as veg oil to biodiesel, if not I have a significant store of oil which I could dilute with petrol & run as diesel fuel in the genny.

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