John Doue <notwobe******.com> wrote in news:o48Zl.138$Ie4.36
@read4.inet.fi:

> How many fries per gallon do you get?
>

Everyone wonders why it doesn't smell like french fries. Potatoes don't
fill the oil with their own oil. They're full of water so it boils off
at the fryer. Fish, however, are full of oil. Burning oil full of fish
oil DOES make the diesel exhaust smell like a fish fry...(c;]

There are 3 of us in the "French Fried Oil Company". I have a oil-
powered old stepvan so am in the pickup/delivery department. I pick up
the oil in the 5 gallon, plastic-lined, boxes it comes in. The
restaurants each have a large strainer funnel to get it back in the box
from their fryers. They trash the large stuff that would clog the box's
small hole. We take the oil to George's trucking company warehouse,
which is George's part of our little consortium, warehousing our supply.
Mike is a great truck mechanic and he's in "Filter and Storage". He
built, maintains and operates our filtering/pumping equipment. The oil
sits totally undisturbed for 60 days or more, as needed, when we have a
suction pipe to draw off nearly clean oil about 3" off the bottom of the
settled box. The oil is drawn off slowly to reduce the sediment it
picks up. This method has reduced our filter network refilter purchases
to nearly zero! Clean oil with only a trace of particles in it passes
through two massive diesel truck fuel filters/water separators drawn
through them by a positive displacement gear pump that runs slowly to
meter the flow. There's never been any water detected because the oil
is kept stored inside after being kept well above water's boiling point
for many days in the frying process. The filters are 5 microns then 1
micron before going through the pump into the plastic barrels we use
clean oil from.

As two of us are using pure oil in Frybrid conversions:
www.frybrid.com
pure oil goes into some barrels. My truck is a frybrid conversion,
totally unnecessary in South Carolina's hot climate, a total waste of
money. My Mercedes cars ('73 220D, '83 300TD wagon), are unmodified and
run on a mixture of 1 part mineral spirits (paint thinner I get from
painting contractors left over from their jobs) and 50 parts clean oil.
In winter the mixture has double the mineral spirits to ensure starting
near freezing, about as cold as it gets here. That still strands me a
couple of times a winter, but just wait until it warms a little and she
cranks right up. Once the engine has heated the injection pump housing,
it would run at 0F, no sweat unless the oil jellies in the lines,
preventing flow from the tank. The frybrid has water-heated everything
and a computer system...see webpage.

Our problem, locally, is supply. The warehouse's supply of oil SWELLS
over our actual usage. I joke with the other guys that we may need to
drive back and forth to Atlanta (350 miles) all weekened to reduce our
backed up supply. George has been experimenting with two old diesel
trucks used to ferry containers around the city to help us use up the
surplus. We've also considered buying a diesel genset and selling our
excess fuel as AC power back to the power company.

For this reason, we don't ever worry about how much "miles per gallon"
we get. "DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT" is our motto. Full throttle saves
warehouse space! Drop by and I'll fill you up....free!

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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?