There are some major oil stains on my driveway. There’s vegetable oil from bad fill up attempts and filter changes. Even more plentiful are the scores of little dots and one large black tar pool from elusive motor oil leaks. I’ll admit, my 79 300SD is one leaky […]
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Happy 4th of July, or Independence Day America! 235 years ago this nation declared independence from the rule of Imperial Britain. Religious, economic and personal freedom was the alluring promise of this “new land”. Liberty of spirit is a very powerful and desirable thing. Thus, the collective thinking and might of the people was to […]
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I thought I knew what I was doing. I needed fittings for coolant and veggie oil. To save on shipping, and to be tantalized by a large selection of fittings, I went down to the local hydraulic fittings “Superstore”. Naively thinking the store would have aisles and rows of steel, brass, aluminum, titanium, kryptonite etc […]
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With radiation once again poisoning Japan, this time from nuclear power plants, the news is abuzz with facts, figures and questions about Nuclear Power. It’s not hard to spot out the “white knights” from the nuclear industry, flown in special to explain how safe nuclear power is and how much we need it. I agree […]
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“It’s all about the oil”, goes the old WVO saying. If there’s no vegetable oil, then there is nothing for our centrifuges to clean, nothing for our heat exchangers to heat and nothing good to smell coming out of our tailpipes. Our ingenious cleaning/filtering, heating and switching mechanisms will be rendered useless without the “liquid […]
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That hush-hush, politically charged and relatively unexplored term came up on Yahoo News recently. No, it’s not “Arctic Summer Sea Ice”, or “budget deficit” or even “Fisher-Underwood Complex.”(Though, I’m amused by any infusions of romance into the hockey world, and was happy to hear that Ottawa has traded Mike Fisher to Nashville so he can be with Carrie). I’M […]
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August 2010 – I traded in my beloved 1997 Vegistroked Ford PSD with for a Toyota Camry. Poor economy, lack of landscaping work, change in interests and impending tranny rebuild forced me to let go of the Beast. I wanted a diesel, but the dealership had nothing for me and the offer on my truck was twice […]
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Spillage… You haven’t been running WVO long if you haven’t had an oil spill. Whether collecting behind Happy Garden or pumping in your garage, odds are you’ll have a slip an error of greasy proportions. “Holy Shit, shut off the pump”, “my God NO, this can’t be happening”, Sure, we can take precautions […]
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I need to pry myself away from the bench to write a bit about the latest product that we have released. The Monster Gear Pump V2! A little background on the Monster Gear Pump: When I got started with veggie oil I purchased a Redline Pump, at the time they were still using a belt […]
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Each minute approximately 150 to 400 gallons of crude oil continue to spill into and threaten estuaries and marine life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Environmental News Network. The news continues to be so bleak that I am hesitant to even type any words containing, spill, oil or worse, catastrophe. Which in […]
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