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[Herb]

Greg, When do we get started?

Herb

[RichTheNoun]

I think I'm going to start collecting WVO at the end of this month. I
know a small restaurant owner who is intrigued with the BD idea and
already gave me the thumbs-up on collecting from his place.
I guess the big issue I have is storage and the actual collection. I
need a couple barrels; one for collecting and one for offloading/
storage. I also need some method of collecting it. I'm looking at an
electric pump kit from Northern Tool, might do the job.

-Rich

[Dan O'Brien]

Rich,

What type pump is that? In the winter or even cool weather, WVO becomes a slug that's very difficult to pump. If the restaurant would put the oil back in the plastic cubies, it makes for easy transportation. I was exchanging 55 gallon plastic drums at the restaurant I was collecting from. It took two people and a hand truck to load the barrel though. If you're going to collect from several restaurants, a positive displacement pump system or a vacuum system would be worth the investment.

Just my $0.02 worth,
Dan

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[Greg Ericksen]

My local hardware store in Ashland is selling a few used 55 gallon
steel drums as burn barrels, for $20 each, but they are the open head
type so I didn't get them for a wash tank. They have tops on them, but
they guy don't thinks they seal like a closed head. Would this help
your collection process? Or is there some use I might have for them in
the future? Let me know and I'll pick 1 or 2 up.
Greg

[Herb]

It is a gear pump. I've used it Feb. not a problem, pumped 15gal in
about 5 min.

[vaman4215]

Any chance you could get a part number of the pump, or the page number
that's in the Northern Tool book??? I think I still have an NT book
here somewhere...Dan is correct, in cold weather WVO is worse than
motor oil as far as viscosity...The best way to collect is the
cubies....Easy to move around, they stack if left in the boxes pretty
good...

On Jun 15, 11:14 am, Herb <mta...@bealenet.com> wrote:
> It is a gear pump. I've used it Feb. not a problem, pumped 15gal in
> about 5 min.
>
>
>
> Dan O'Brien wrote:
> >Rich,
>
> >What type pump is that? In the winter or even cool weather, WVO becomes a slug that's very difficult to pump. If the restaurant would put the oil back in the plastic cubies, it makes for easy transportation. I was exchanging 55 gallon plastic drums at the restaurant I was collecting from. It took two people and a hand truck to load the barrel though. If you're going to collect from several restaurants, a positive displacement pump system or a vacuum system would be worth the investment.
>
> >Just my $0.02 worth,
> >Dan
>

> >---- RichTheNoun <r...@gate.net> wrote:
>
> >=============
>
> >I think I'm going to start collecting WVO at the end of this month. I
> >know a small restaurant owner who is intrigued with the BD idea and
> >already gave me the thumbs-up on collecting from his place.
> >I guess the big issue I have is storage and the actual collection. I
> >need a couple barrels; one for collecting and one for offloading/
> >storage. I also need some method of collecting it. I'm looking at an
> >electric pump kit from Northern Tool, might do the job.
>

> >-Rich- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Richard Keller]

Yeah, if they're in good shape and clean I'll take at least one.
By "open head", I assume that means that the whole top comes off, as opposed
to just a small cap that opens?