Soaps/Acetone

[Julian]

*personally I can never remember wiki formatting and have to crib from existing pages every time!

I'm exactly the same.

[jgs600]

well just ordered some acetone to try on my next batch

[julesandtash]

Mark,

I have just edited your page to make it look as, I expect, you wanted it to.

Good write up and pictures mate (which I have not changed at all other than the spelling mistakes which I noticed as I went along). Feel free to add extra text in there.

I have also put the links in to other pages and indexed it on the main page so finding you work is now easier for others. It is in the 'finishing' section of 'biodiesel'

[Julian]

Mark,

I have just edited your page to make it look as, I expect, you wanted it to.

Good write up and pictures mate (which I have not changed at all). Feel free to add extra text in there.

Thanks Jules, shall I delete this thread I put together for Mark, then?   

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,900.0.html

[julesandtash]

Sorry mate - maybe I should have read that 

Not well today and day off from work so, sitting down with nothing to do and the laptop in front of me it seemed helpful.

At least what I have done matches very well with your instructions to Mark and, hopefully, passes your scrutiny.

Once again, my apologies

[Julian]

Sorry mate - maybe I should have read that 

Not well today and day off from work so, sitting down with nothing to do and the laptop in front of me it seemed helpful.

At least what I have done matches very well with your instructions to Mark and, hopefully, passes your scrutiny.

Once again, my apologies

It's OK, I was just trying to help Mark get his head round wiking, perhaps another time.  Or if you really want a bash at it, Mark, we could roll the page back.

It's not really up to me to scrutinise or pass anything, it's all a joint effort ... I just made some suggestions, hope it didn't sound too dictatorial!

Sorry to hear your feeling unwell, but if your twiddling your thumbs, your Glogs page needs finishing ... I'm dying to know how to store these things.

Also I did make  some comments on the ASM page, don't know if you saw them.  Is it worth adding that titration is done with 1% NaOH solution and changing the formula to read ml instead of grams?  Both points confused me when I followed it to use ASM (but then confusing me is not a difficult thing to do).

[julesandtash]

No problem. I think it is good that you and Tony are quite specific on how wiki pages should be, that is what keeps the uniformity.

I have made your suggestions to the ASM page now. I hope it looks better.

I will have a bash at the glogs page soon.

I just store them stacked up in what used to be a coal bunker and is now lined with a tarpaulin. The only downside I have found to that is that by the time I have used a couple of hundred, the bottom ones are quite damp. I believe this is down to glycerol being hygroscopic and absorbing moisture from the air.
They still burn OK but need a bit more heat to get going and there is an audible crackling and popping from the water

[photoman290]

No problem. I think it is good that you and Tony are quite specific on how wiki pages should be, that is what keeps the uniformity.

I have made your suggestions to the ASM page now. I hope it looks better.

I will have a bash at the glogs page soon.

I just store them stacked up in what used to be a coal bunker and is now lined with a tarpaulin. The only downside I have found to that is that by the time I have used a couple of hundred, the bottom ones are quite damp. I believe this is down to glycerol being hygroscopic and absorbing moisture from the air.
They still burn OK but need a bit more heat to get going and there is an audible crackling and popping from the water

did my sawdust contact work out ok jules? the stuff you had off me had been sitting around for at least a year maybe 2. it is green when they cut it so there will be a lot of water in it before you make the glogs,plus they spray the saw to keep the dust down.

[julesandtash]

Glogs page now updated and looking better too

[Julian]

Glogs page now updated and looking better too

Looking great!

I took a picture of some carpet cores a while back and forgot to upload it (done now)



I find putting tape across one end helps when you come to pack the sawdust.  I tend to only use one piece now though.

Anyhow if it's of use please feel free to use it.  I'm going to fill some TetraPaks in the next few days, so if photos of that in progress would help let me know.

[julesandtash]

Ideal, I will put that one in. Pics of the process would be good I think, I meant to take some last time I make some logs but forgot.

........ Do you think we may have gone a bit off topic here?

[Head Womble]

Jules, thanks for fixing the page, good job some one knows what they're doing.

I will make some changes once I've done a few more batches,
I plan to do a batch and split it in two, standard pump washing one half,
and acetone washing the other,
I'll do titrated soap tests at every wash stage.

This should give some good comparison results for the page.
But it may be about a month before I can get it done though, unless I get chance to pop over to Julian for some IPA.

[julesandtash]

No problem, you are very welcome.
You are doing the hard work, I just made it look pretty

[Julian]

........ Do you think we may have gone a bit off topic here?

That's what topics are for.

[Julian]

... unless I get chance to pop over to Julian for some IPA.

Offer's still there.  I should be in most of the week but possibly out Friday.