Howdy. Is the Melbourne group still meeting?? If so when/where etc. Ceres??? Thanx in advance

Yep , I wanna have another meeting soon. I'm thinking of having an informal social meet at CERES, but need to give everyone time to get the info and come,. wanna suggest a date?? Also we need time to run it past CERES if we need to hire the environment room behind the fire circle, for talks and discussion. I'm thinking a saturday at the fire circle, It could coincide with the usual Saturday Markets, and we could also make it a swap meet come joint market stall of components and vessels. I have about 5 good centrifugal pumps i have scrounged from a washing machine graveyard, that i would like to pass on to others, for a small return for my efforts and awareness.
We could have a sausage sizzle and beers fund raiser, and i could do a test reaction, show and tell, Titration workshop, with my Hoovermatic,
It would be good also for newby's to meet others to form there own little chorums in there local areas, Talk about making a collective suck trailer, and for people to club together into Meth buying collectives ETC, ETC. Maybe we could get someone from ATA to talk about the recent " level playing field excise issues" now being bandied around the senate, and being fought by the democrats.
Suggest a date, and i'll run it past CERES. then we'll post a notice. We need atleast four weeks notice.
Cheers for the keen interest, otherwise i just assume nobody's interested. There are now over 50 registerd members of the melbournebiodiesel site, but your the first to get pushy. Well done.
Cheers Darren.

G'day Darren,

I'm interested in a meetup too. I'll be overseas until the 23rd July though. If anyone is interested, I have a few litres of oil I need to get rid of while I'm away as I cannot store it. I've listed this in another thread.

Cheers, Steve.

How about weekend 29th or 30th July by popular demand, allowing for jetlag?
Kate

count me in for a mee&greet any weekend end is fine by me , thats if im not up the hills camping and playing mister 4wd

Foul Chick,

you read my mind. The 29th or 30th would be great. Gee they could certainly do with some more biodiesel over here in the US. There are two Hummers permanently parked on the same block I'm staying at!! They are huge. There are about another 20 dodge rams per block too. These people have problems.

Peace to all.

Hi All ,,
Ok its a goer.(Saturday the 29th of July) I'll get onto it with CERES to secure the environment room, the building behind the fire circle.
I'll also get onto drafting up a schedule (agenda? itinerary?) of events and speakers.
I would like to do a test batch with my " hovermatic" reactor just to show people just what biodiesel and the reaction looks like. (thats one newby's are always keen to see.)
We could have myself and or Paul Martin doing a titration workshop, and we could titrate some samples from the CERES oil collection Pallecon, some samples from the CERES cafe, (we could cheekily give a report to the CERES cafe of the saturated free fatty acids in their oil) , and anybody else who wants to bring along a sample.
I will get onto Richard Tye to do a talk about Making soap from Glycerine waste.
I would like to get Paul Martin to give a talk about " the History of Biodiesel in Australia" .
And ofcourse we will have stuff to fund raise for the club, and someone from CERES to talk about melbourne biodiesel club becomeing a site group and building a club house , educational reactor on the CERES site.
Also i would love to have (withoutprejudice) Andy Fischer, the M.D.from SAFF, to speak to all about the exciting push to get Melbourne's first purely biofuels servo.
Myself and Archi. colleague Paras, and Paralegal law graduate Dan, yesterday on the shortest day of the year (boy were we all rushed) Met with Andy Fischer and Mike from SAFF to talk about this very issue. It seems as soon as SAFF can secure a blending site, its all go for Melbourne's first purely biofuels servo.
The opportunity is there for all to become retailers of SAFF products, including "bio unleaded 95" a sexy name for E10 to sell to the petrol heads.
So keep an eye out for dilapidated petrol stations , and more importantly in the short term keep an eye out for an old buttery, margerine factory or similar rendering plant, somewhere near the ring road for Andy to set up a blending plant.
Cheers all, and lets look forward to a big day on saturday the 29th of July.
Check club site for updates of further dialogue. Also all the stuff mentioned above on the 14th.
Darren.

Ok I'll be there. Might learn a thing or two. What time?

Have Fun

Simon

Hi Darren
I might have a spot for the SAFF guys for a while Send me a pvt msg with a contact no so I can call you
By the way I have some 44 gall drums to give away some are good some are so and so pass it around pick up from Sunshine FREE
Cheers
Chris

Hi Darren
Looking forward to meeting you guys and a great day. What time on Saturday??
All the best
Richard