The biodiesel project is complete! After washing the concoction and letting it sit for about a week and a half, the water finally separated from the diesel and it is ready to use. The table top recipie I used called for 1 liter of new vegetable oil and 250 ML of sodium methoxide. That mix yielded 875ml of usable biodiesel. The next step is trying it out in the tractor... I'm not sure if I am ready to see the results. It passed the flame test with flying colors... no sputtering or anything. I wonder if there is a better way to test it? I guess it'll be mixed with about 6 gallons of petroleum diesel so it will probably have little effect, even if it was bad.
We'll see soon enough...
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