[TheForge] Quenching Oil

Wed Jan 8 21:50:59 2003

At 05:30 AM 1/8/03, you wrote:

Thinking about the heavy crude they use, deep fry oil must be easy...No?
I imagine the cost is in the handling and collection....Pete

>Used french fry oil / deep fat grease is free from my local "greasy spoon" 
>restaurant: it doesn't smell too bad  either.
>
>But peanut oil might be better.  I will see if  Skip wants to use his 
>turkey cooker <grins>.   I know he can only eat so much cold turkey, 
>and  Thanksgiving is already a month behind us.
>
>After years of testing, they reportedly have soy-diesel approved,  but 
>before they got the formula  right,  they probably prematurely aged a few 
>diesel engines.   I can't imagine that trying to clean up old cooking oil 
>back to a fuel grade component would be cost effective.
>
>Dann Johnson
>
>
>At 01:53 AM 1/8/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>My guess is the guy who fixes the diesel
>>engines..
>>
>>Mike Graf
>>
>>DragonsWatch wrote:
>> >
>> > Ut-Oh, the competition begins.  A while back I heard that someone was 
>> mixing
>> > used cooking oils with alcohol and coming up with a diesel substitute.
>> > Wonder which will win....
>> >
>> > Larry
>> >
>> > Stephen McGehee wrote:
>> >
>> > > A new resource y'all:  Turkey Fryers use about 4-5 gallons of oil,
>> > > sometimes Peanut .  If they just cook one bird and let the oil cool off,
>> > > it cannot be reused, and is just thrown away.  Two jugs of that stuff
>> > > and you will be set up to heat treat almost anything that is oil
>> > > tempering.  I have used it a little so far with excellent results and
>> > > when you do, it makes your shop smell like cooked turkey, not the toxic
>> > > stink of used motor oil.  Kinda like using beeswax for a burnt oil
>> > > finish versus paraffin, the next morning your shop smells so nice...
>> > > So call up your brother-in-law and ask him for his discard oil.
>> > > Stephen McGehee
>> > > Publisher of
>> > > Irony, the sketchbook of an apprentice blacksmith
>> > > P. O. Box 9822  Pine Bluff, AR 71611
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>> > > (870) 540-0142
>> > > (479) 643-3299 (farm)
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