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Fat sinks in oil, but floats on water.

This sounds interesting. Gelled oils, which we tend to call fats, will generally settle to the bottom, so I am not sure what was floating on the top of your tank. How long do you settle your WVO-gasoline blends for? Also, heating a gasoline blend to 150F is a really bad idea, because gasoline...

Jack, at Jack's surplus in Tucson told me that he has been farming the diesel fuel out of the fuel tanks on his 40 year old surplus fleet for years, and swears it works just fine, and does not evaporate. Otherwise blending any kind of alcohol with poorly filtered WVO is surely going to result...

Theoretically, yes WVO and WMO can be processed in the same way; however, not everyone makes waste oil blends in the same way. I blend with gasoline, not diesel fuel, as my blending agent for a number of reasons: 1] I need half as much gasoline to blend with waste oils as I would if I blended...

I too blend at the 80:20 ratio most of the time, but in the winter I add more gasoline to my blends; however, I found that a silicon seal in my IP would swell and fail if I exceeded 30% gasoline in the blend. I found also that it was the alcohol content in US gasoline that causes the seal...

It is not clear how you are burning your waste oils. Are you burning them straight, heated? Or, straight, unheated? Or, blended with a solvent, such as gasoline? If you are blending with a solvent, such as gasoline, then there is no need to heat your waste oils for processing. All you have...