Well, Bret and others,
It seems to me that I bought information on how to make this wonder fuel when all I really had to do was look on the web and get the info for free ---- we all learn from our mistakes.
Basically all you do is mix 85% filtered waste or clean veggie oil with 10% kerosene, 5% gasoline and a few onces of Diesel-Kleen+Cetane boost (Wal-Mart in a gray bottle) and a couple of onces of DSE (wonder chemical youhave to continue to purchase from them). Mix all of this together and pump it through a filter into your car, truck or tractor.
From what I've read in other places on the web, mixing with kero and gas has been done for years. It was the British government that suggested adding a Cetane booster and stabilizer to make it more "petro diesel" like.
It breaks down to this: 20gal filtered WVO, 2gal Kerosene, 1gal unleaded gas, 15oz Power Service+Centane boost additive, 3.5oz of DSE mix slowly for 5 minuets and put it in the tank. In the winter they advise you to up the amount of kerosene you use.
From looking at MSDS sheets I don't see why you can't use STA-BIL or Diesel Power (from the makers of Heet) in the place of the DSE additive. Sta-Bil looks and smells just like the DSE product. As a matter of fact SEVERAL groups have made the fuel totally omitting the stabilizer with no degradation in performance. There is a company in England that uses 90% WVO and 10% "white spirits" (mineral spirits) to mix a bio fuel with good sucess.
A guy in FL had this to say (on another forum):
Posted 12 March 2006 11:07 AM
"I started on DSE, and ran 100 gallons of it (about 2000 miles). I then tried the same mix without DSE's additive, and it ran exactly the same. I just don't think the DSE is doing anything in the tiny amounts they have you add it. I have tried the following blends:
85%WVO, 10%kero, 5%gas WITH DSE
85%WVO, 10%kero, 5%gas WITHOUT DSE
85%WVO, 15%gasoline, nothing else (ran best)
91%WVO, 9%ethanol, (ethanol wouldn't stay mixed)
**Note added by me (Tony T): The British Gov used this mix but added a surfactant (sp?) to make a micro emulsion. http://vegburner.co.uk/blends.htm
90%WVO, 10% gas (ran fine here in FL)
85%WVO, 10% kero, 5% ethanol (this runs GREAT)
Summer I am going to try 100% WVO as soon as I get electric heaters on the main fuel line before the filter. If it works OK, I will go with 100% until about Oct-Nov when it cools off here."
DSE is not a new way to make fuel just a repackaged way of selling it.
The fuel seems to run really well and is much easier to make than bio-diesel. I've read the pros and cons of this method and I don't think I'd run it in a Direct Injection engine because it may coke up the chamber but it runs GREAT in my 1980 Mercedes 240D.
The one thing I'd like to stress with any "homemade" fuel is let it settle. It's always better to make any of these fuels several days in advance and then allow them to settle out any crud or water before you use them --- just use your head.
Good luck and let me know how it works for you.
Tony T