Good stuff guys,

Thanks Kelly, for getting credit to where it's due. So much wonderful input, it's hard to keep track.

Some thoughts based on observations. How about using liquid soap from the Health Stores? These are supposedly just plain soap, no additives, perfumes, foaming agents etc.

Next, how about eliminating or minimizing the water when using the pressure cooker? OR, do a post treatment by simmering the mix for ten minutes or so to drive out the water.

Aright, I know that this is a diesel forum but after doing what's called a meth test to see if you've made good BioFuel, I had an idea. The meth test is to mix up oil with methanol in a 1 to 10 ratio. If the oil dissolves and stays in suspension, you have a good fuel. So I tested for 2 to 10 (or 20%) and I still had complete dissolution of the oil. Well wait, that amounts to glow fuel,, don't it?

So I just had to try it and IT WORKED. This was with OliveFuel and yes, I know that the "OIL" components were taken out as much as possible but so far, we had a steady run with good throttling. Power was WAY down, (no nitro) but the durn stuff ran.

OK, big deal, will the rod hold up? No way to tell except fly such a mix for a gallon or so and see. That'll have to wait till summer. But a local dabbler in things exotic, (like those of us on this forum) alerted me to a few products for the dirt bike and snowmachine crowd for boosting power. One of these says on the can, "contains nitromethane". That statement usually means that the mentioned item is the main ingredient. He's going to drop off a can to me in a few days.

So why don't I use BioOil instead of BioFuel?? Well, I thought of that but every oil I've tested, plain or modified, will not blend with methanol. But they ALL will blend with kerosene or any other DinoVolatile. And yet castor, which is also a veggie oil, blends just fine with methanol but is quite reluctant to blend with kerosene. Just what IS going on here?

OK, here's something else that happened tonight. I mixed up some OliveFuel with methanol at a ratio of 3 to 10 and that's 30%. That exceeded the oils limit to dissolve by about 10%. How do I know? Well, about that amount eventually settled out at the bottom of the fuel tank, exactly where the clunk pickup sat. Despite the clunk sitting in raw OliveFuel, the (glow) engine ran. It smoked a whole lot and I had to leave the glow clip on for a minute but once up to temperature, it appeared that the VeggieFuel actually ran in the presence of the glow plug. I'm speculating that the pooled oil had picked up SOME methanol and it was this that was responding to the glow plug. This is going to need some investigating.

THIS, I'm sure, will have to be switched to the fuel forum. Don't want to push our luck.

Another neat thing happened today. I was the lucky recipient of three Tanaka engines, the bigger one is a cream puff, excellent compression and the rings and cylinder look prime. I've got it apart and it has needle cages on both ends of the rod. Zero slop and oh boy, what a solid looking rod. Forged steel but quite slim and light weight looking. Besides, the double counterbalances on the crank are a sight to behold. I've got the prop hub made and the rest is just grinding off all the unwanted metal. I think I'll run it as glow first and spend the winter doing it up diesel.

But, big question. The Mills diesel is a sideport design. Am I not right in that as such, it'll run in both directions? Equally?