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Biodiesel Essentials class January 26-27, 2008 at a farm location just outside of Tampa , FL (sorry, don't have exact town name yet) hosted by the moderator of the Florida Biodiesel list: www.groups.yahoo.com/floridabiodiesel (brand-new, please join us) Class registration fee: Early-bird discount on...

Cloudy, in OIL, is not always a sign of water- all oil is cloudy to some extent. Cloudy can just be fats, whiich are OK if your system can handle them during filtration (filtration tries to remove particles, and if it gets clogged by solid fats, that's premature waste of your filter. However, heated...

I have three more biodiesel classes happening before winter (I'm not sure what I"m teaching where this winter yet): Biodiesel Homebrewing Classes with biodiesel equipment build: -Austin, TX Oct 27-28 -Hattiesburg, MS (actually Seminary MS) Nov 3-4 with barbeque/advanced equipment build on Nov 2...

a Vegtherm 12v heater from plantdrive.com might be a good addition. Sometimes they require higher amperage alternators (just depends on what's on your vehicle) but a lot of folks use them to fix the exact problem you seem to be having.

Mark

I'm teaching two biodiesel homebrewing classes in Ft Lauderdale Florida this weekend- Friday Dec 1 (shorter version of weekend class, slightly less hands-on than weekend class) Sat-Sun Dec 2-3 (more hands-on, more comprehensive class covering more of the chemistry and troubleshooting topics, and inc...

Biodiesel Homebrewing Class and Biodiesel Equipment Build Class Central, SC (near Clemson) November 18- biodiesel homebrewing chemistry basics November 19- biodiesel equipment building $60 per class, no one turned away for lack of funds www.girlmark.com/tour 10-4 each day, 225 Broad street, Central ...

www.girlmark.com/tour I"m teaching an intensive class on making your own biodiesel, near Boston (Foxboro) on August 19-20. For more information about the techniques covered, please see the "open-source biodiesel" website at www.biodieselcommunity.org or the biodiesel discussion forum ...

(hope it's OK to list a non-VWDieselparts.com vendor-

Greaseworks.com has a Viton seal kit for the pump- it's Bosch parts, and comes with a good writeup.

aah, duh, my fault. I was staring at taht and assuming that you clicked on the person's name instead. Duh. ANyway, I was interested in the now-gone axle shaft. Do you ahve any of the door hardware- my latch mechanism (not the handle which is easy to find new, but the actual metal stuff with the latc...

Hi,

I'm interested in some of this but can't figure out how to contact you (doesn't look like you can receive PM's).]

Im at alovert@b100.org


thanks,
Mark

I've been teaching biodiesel homebrewing classes around the country this winter/spring, and have a few more coming up. the classes are usually two days long and go into great detail about the chemistry and processes involved in making biodiesel. Here's the website with more information: www.girlmark...

Im teaching a few biodiesel-making classes this winter, and just put up a new web page with more of the information: www.girlmark.com/tour2006.html these are two-day and very hands-on events. YOu can also use the class to build your own biodiesel equipment to take home. the dates are : Pittsboro NC ...

I started a thread at the infopop biodiesel forum for people to list where their methanol/KOH or NaOH suppliers are located, which might be helpful to some folks. It's kind of a short list so far but please list there or here at this forum, where exactly yours is coming from: http://biodiesel.infopo...

Nice job on the article! that's one of the better ones I"ve seen- it's hard to get good coverage out of reporters on this topic.

Mark

thanks,
Mark