The beater that you see in this picture was salvaged from a discarded industrial mixer. Cost: our time to dig through a pile of scrap steel. You could just as easily buy an inexpensive drill operated paint mixer that would do the same thing.
Learn to Make Your Own Biodiesel - Part 1
From Christine & Scott Gable, former About.com Guide
Finally, all of the sodium methoxide has been added to the oil and it is a rich chestnut color. (That's about to change.)
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- Making Biodiesel - Heating the Vegetable Oil
- Safe Handling & Dispensing of the Methanol
- Safe Handling of the Lye
- Measuring the Lye
- Mixing Sodium Methoxide
- Adding Heated Oil to the Bucket
- Adding Sodium Methoxide to the Oil in the Mixing Bucket
- Before We Start to Mix the Biodiesel
- The First Minute of the Mixing Process
- Continuing the Mixing Process
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