Make your own biodiesel

Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen -- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner -- better for the environment and better for health. If you make it from used cooking oil it's not only cheap but you'll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it -- everything you need to know.
Three choices
1. Mixing it
2. Straight vegetable oil
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel
Where do I start?
What's next?
The process
Make your first test batch
Our first biodiesel
Biodiesel from new oil
Biodiesel from waste oil
Moving on to bigger things
Scaling up
Removing the water
Washing
Using biodiesel
Safety
More about methanol
How much methanol?
Ethyl esters -- making ethanol biodiesel
Reclaiming excess methanol
More about lye
Using KOH
How much lye to use?
Basic titration
Better titration
Accurate measurements
Joe Street's titrator
pH meters
Phenolphthalein
pH meters vs phenolphthalein
High FFA levels
Deacidifying WVO
No titration?
The basic lye quantity -- 3.5 grams?
Mixing the methoxide
Stock methoxide solution
Poor man's titration
How much glycerine? Why isn't it solid?
PET bottle mixers
Viscosity testing
How the process works
Animal fats, tallow and lard
What are Free Fatty Acids?
Iodine Values
-- High Iodine Values
-- Talking about the weather
-- Summary
Hydrogenated oil, shortening, margarine
Oxidation and polymerisation
Which method to use?
Why can't I start with the Foolproof method?
Quality
Quality testing
Cetane Numbers
National standards for biodiesel
-- standards and the homebrewer
-- standard testing
Biodiesel in gasoline engines
Storing biodiesel
Home heating
Lamps and stoves
Other uses
Fats and oils -- resources
Diesel information
Identifying plastics