Running a Diesel on WVO wast veggie oil

[DOUG]

Sorry about the job loss but what a way to bounce back! Would love to hook up with you for a part of the trip but not sure it's logistically possible if I take off and fly in somewhere.  You going solo?

Sent off camber

[mrmike1964]

I don't have anyone going with me at this time. That could always change.

[mrmike1964]

We stopped on the way home from the ride Saturday and placed the order for the new 6" gold dredge. I had run one a couple years back and they do a very good job moving the overburden and getting down to bed rock. The last time I went to Alaska I took two 4" dredges and just couldn't move enough overburden to stay on the bedrock. A 4" dredge moves about 4yards of overburden a hour a 6" will move as much as 15yards a hour. Plus in the area I will be working in most every rock would fit though a 6" dredge where about 40% would fit a 4" dredge and you move the rest by hand. That's moving a lot of rock by hand. See in Alaska the rocks freeze and crack and freeze and crack so they don't get much bigger the 4 or 5 inches. -50* will do that.

A dredge is like a shop vacuum that floats. You dive under the water with a air supply from the motor on the dredge and you use the 6" hose to vacuum up all the rocks till you get down to bedrock where the gold lies. Gold is 19.3 times heavier then water and sinks down though the overburden and even down into the cracks in the bed rock. Sounds easy right. Well it's a lot of hard work and you get to spend hours under icy water! Did I mention that the water is ice cold! Then you vacuum a hole into permafrost under a river that is being fed from a glacier. I use the heat from the exhaust to heat some of the water from the pump and pump it into my wet suit last time. This year I will have a dry suit and will be nice and dry and warm.

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[cru9]

Where do you purchase or order something like that in GA. I had no idea you could get stuff like that still in GA

[mrmike1964]

Georgia has some of the riches deposits of gold then anywhere. You just can't get to it. Plus the gold here is around 19carrot where in Alaska it is only around 10carrot. Land owners wont give permission. I ordered it at Crisson's gold mind in Dahlonega.

 Matt and I are picking gold up off the rocks and then we got run off by a brown bear that must of had a den or cub around she was there every time we tried to go back!

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[mrmike1964]

If you don't have a bear tag in Alaska you had better not shoot one! They will fine the hell out of you and take everything you have there. We would see them now and then you always have to be on the look out for bear and moose.

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[ranier1315]

I have 5 gallons of oil from thanksgiving turkey. I know it's not much but I was looking for somewhere to dispose of it anyway.

[mrmike1964]

I'll take it! Where do I have to go to get it?

[mrmike1964]

I thought I would put up a list of things I have been getting together for this trip and what I still need to get together.

The dredge is a Keen 6" triple sluice with twin 6.5 Hondas.  $7012.40 ordered

Dive mask is a Ocean Reef Neptune space G full face mask. $429.00 ordered

Still looking for a Dry suite.  around $1000.00 to $1500.00

500 gallons of WVO  $500.00 to $1000.00 if I buy it on line  $0.00 if I can fine it for free.

Centrifuge for cleaning the  WVO $1250.00 no more filters.

Neoprene dive gloves 3 pair  not sure on price yet.



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[clark123456]

Mike, I wonder if you could create a whirlpool effect with a powerful pump in order to clear the crap out of the oil.  When I brew beer I create a whirlpool to keep the hops from being transferred into the carboys.  The whirlpool causes the hops to collect in a cone in the middle of a boil kettle.

[mrmike1964]

Yes I could do something like that. I was going to build one but never got around to it. I spent 5 days filtering wvo in Alaska the last time so this Time I think I will just bit the bullet and buy one with the heater. I can clean the wvo down to 1micron and remove the water at the same time with a centrifuge. This one will run 1-60 gal a hour the slower you feed it the cleaner it will come out.

[lt99ls1]

If you don't have a bear tag in Alaska you had better not shoot one! They will fine the hell out of you and take everything you have there. We would see them now and then you always have to be on the look out for bear and moose.

Tag or no tag, if something is trying to kill me I will put it down.