Any BD suppliers in the Hurstville/Sutherland area?
G

I found a Volume Plus at South Hurstville!

I am thinking of going into limited production.
it would be good if a Co-Op of local users could be formed, and share in the benefits.

if say 4 or more users used 50 litres each per week it makes it viable to buy 200 litres of methanol at a time, making the process much cheaper.

it will be nice to stick it up the folk that are ripping us all off so blatently.

I am in Lugarno.

This could work!

Thanx for your reply.
it may be a good idea to get together & discuss logistics and costings.

using recycled oil, say from a local fish shop, I get BD costs under 40cents per litre PLUS excise. if we can produce at acceptable quality we get the excise back from the EPA.

I am aware that testing is involved. my background is originally in Chemical Engineering, so the set up & arrangments for testing are not too difficult.

I don't think we can afford a Chromatograph right now but I know a company I used to work for that has one, and we can arrange with them at a reasonable price, or use tech college & university facilities.

once a co-op is started I am sure that more will join us.

Schwarz - bring it on. I like the sound of it. Give me a shout if you need a hand with anything. I'd really like to see a project like this succeed, as this was one of the prime reasons I started this forum - to allow people like you and the rest of us to find each other in order to organise into something better.

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Sounds good. I'm in Bexley. My bf has filled up a couple of times at the VP at Hurstville, but from what I've read on this forum, sometimes it's not great to trust VP fuel. If I could be guaranteed that it was quality BD, I'd be in for sure!!

I went to Marulan today (north of Goulburn) and they were selling BioDiesel at the Truck Stop on the northern side for $1.21 per litre.

Was it in a truck 'only' area or for everybody and was it easily scene or in fine print?
George

The truck stop is fairly well set up for heavy trucks.

We were actually going to go in and get some diesel but I was only filling plastic jerry cans for our diesel generator and I know that the bigger high flow nozzles of some of the service stations won't even fit into the neck of my jerry cans, so we didn't bother going to that service station and went to another one across the road.

As for the print, it was as big as the normal diesel and ULP in font size and price size.

The normal diesel was about $1.25 p/ltr. There was only a few cents in the price difference.

I am certainly not set up to make my own biodiesel but I wouldn't mind getting into it because it is costing us an absolute fortune for diesel to run the household generator to power the property when the solar system fails us.