Whats Happening on here?

[dgs]

Whats happening guys? Never known it so quiet on here. Have you all gone over to using pump diesel or something?

[oakwoodtv]

Probably now ones had a disaster and a lack of new starters.

When pump derv up to £1.50 a ltr we may have a bit more traffic.   

[Julian]

What he said.

I'm on my 197^th batch and much of the magic of making usable fuel from rancid cooking waste has evaporated.  I still have thoughts on trying to improving the process, but it's all become rather run of the mill .... something you have do do if you want to run a vehicle on a budget.

Is it this quiet on the other forums?

We appear to get the slightly more visitors than a year or so ago, 33 so far today at 1:00 pm (not sure if that's just the forum or includes the wiki)  ... it used to be an average of around 20/day, it just looks like most visitors don't post.  I'll see if I can find the stats information ... (we lost access to it in the hosting move).

[Julian]

Hmmm!

Can't find anything in admin except page tracking which isn't quite what we want besides it requires "stats" to be enabled and I can't see where to enable that!

The host offers three site analysis tool, one of which they say supports wikimedia, but it requires setting up which, although it looks like it's a click of a button, I'm reluctant to do in case it/I screw things up!  Can any other admin assist?

[dgs]

I'm a bit behind you Julian, probably around the 120 batches, but I'm still very interested in the process and little ways I can 'tweak' things to be more efficient.

Over the last few batches I have been experimenting with a modification of the 5% prewash method, where after adding an amount of glyc and water to the last reaction I pump the mix for about 20 mins then bubble overnight. The last batch I did like this showed only 80ppm soap before I transferred it to the wash tank.

I'm also trying different ratio's of the 10/90 in an attempt to create a ratio that is more accurate so there are less mono's left in the bio. I will start some new threads when I've done more tests.

[Julian]

Post up any experiments you do, Dave ... if you don't get responses it doesn't mean no one's interested.  I read absolutely everything posted on here and I'm sure others do too.  One reason I don't respond to chemistry related posts is that after years of playing this game, that side of things is still a black art to me.

One thing I'd like to improve/speed up is demeth time.  Some means of getting a greater flow round the vapor circuit would be a big step forward in my eyes.

[greasemonkey]

I still read a bit, but just haven't got the time to get involved with a thread these days.
It's not just about one reply, sometimes a thread can go on for days, so I just don't start.
Add to that, my internet connection is pretty unreliable and slow, and I just don't get on forums like I used to. 

[K.H]

Looking at my dispensing meter, i must have been making bio for 20 odd years! 

[K.H]

I think the VOD is even quieter, % wise, when i look in there can be under a dozen in todays post, so i think its a general thing

[dgs]

I'm sure you are correct.

There are probably over 10 times the people running veg and making bio than are members on the 2 forums. I remember looking in on this forum years ago thinking I would love to post on here but was nervous because I didn't know enough about the subject.

[Jamesrl]

One thing I'd like to improve/speed up is demeth time. 

Get a Squirrel, YES they do work, I've been demething in under an hour for years.

[GedsJeep]

i left you all a story to pass the time.

[K.H]

One thing I'd like to improve/speed up is demeth time. 

Get a Squirrel, YES they do work, I've been demething in under an hour for years.

Can i disagree? just thought a damn good argument normally livens things up?

[oakwoodtv]

What sort of argument do you want.

[K.H]

https://youtu.be/wdoGVgj1MtY