B100 committing suicide

[Cattletrkr]

Earlier this week dad went ot go fill up his transfer tank with B100 for use in tractors and his p/u. The price jumped from $1. 94 last week to $2. 34... off-road. The reason, none really. They just had to catch up to #2 I suppose.



Not a good idea.

 

[JWilkinson]

It is going to get worse. Several major methanol plants are shutting down. So the price is going to go up. Natural gas prices and ethanol are getting the blame.

 

[JFaughn]

cattletrkr
Are you guys thinking about making yet ?
You know the the oil co's / refinners are not going to cut there profits.
Went to the living green expo at the fair grounds sun and pick up a CD at a both that was some state officals , lot of good info , testing of Hennipen co , plow trucks , 2 yrs , 2 winters , storage , production and a lot more .
I wounder if Norm has checked his ?
We spent a lot of time ranting on the gougers .

 

[Cattletrkr]

cattletrkr

Are you guys thinking about making yet ?

Yes and no. We've got a couple 3000gal storage tanks just sitting here. That would allow me some major bulk discounts on raw product. I could easily pay for a set-up in less than a year. I just don't have the spending cash to start a major project like that right now. A small setup isn't worth the time involved for the amount of fuel I/we go thru.



WVO isn't an option 'cause I'd need way more than I could ever find around here. I'd probably have to use soybean oil or something similar.

 

[JFaughn]

It sounds like the best thing , would be to have those tanks filled with b100 , from what I'm hearing you'ld save over a dollar a gal. min. , then mix maybe 30-35%.
I just tried about 20% , pluged my 1st fuel filter , runs quiter , smother ,seems to get to opperating temp a little slower ,
Now I think that its waking up a little , over the winter it seemed like the injectors were starting to miss , maybe dirty , bad spray pattern , now it feels like thats gone away .

 

[Cattletrkr]

There are a couple problems with filling those tanks with B100.



1. They were previously used for fertilizer storage. One could be easily rinsed out, the other I don't know about. That still leaves me with trying to dry out at least one of them after rinsing it.



2. Mixing the B100 into a smaller % means I'd have the B100 here longer than it's shelf life. Yes, I could just order less, but that's not the point.



The best idea I can come up with is to find a farmer who needs the tanks and "trade them in" for a smaller new tank.



I'd still like to figure out a way to use them for raw product and make my own. I doubt that will ever happen though.

Now I think that its waking up a little , over the winter it seemed like the injectors were starting to miss , maybe dirty , bad spray pattern , now it feels like thats gone away .

Along those same lines, dad swears it "woke up" his Freightliner grain semi. He thinks it must have super-cleaned the injectors or something.