Larry wrote:
> 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!
>
Excellent, I love it. Some people are going your route in France,
especially in rural areas, last I heard, but France being an oppressive
country in many regards, Customs try to chase them because they do not
pay - of course - any tax on their fuel.

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John Doue