Red diesel current price?

That reminds me. Do you want more used oil yet?

Adam

Pretend that was a private email:-)

OK so now , how do you take the red out of red diesel?

Fullers earth. However they can still tell even after the red has gone and no I will not tell you how.

Getting the red out is easy. Getting the colourless tracer chemical out isn't so easy.

Activated charcoal *may* do it, but costs a lot more per litre than it saves. Just don't ask me how I know, OK? ;-)

The current price is 70p/litre. Check Boilerjuice for prices. Except you won't because I'm in your kill file and hence you miss out. Bwhahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahah heh.

UV dye? Hence the need for UV filtering safety glasses when they run the tests after dipping at agricultural shows etc.

A few years back the AA got a lot of complaints from Kent members that their diesel injectors were wearing out rapidly. After much investigation it turned out that a garage was filtering red diesel through fullers earth and selling it as white. Trouble was that a small fraction of the fullers earth remained in the fuel and was sufficiently abrasive over time to do the damage. That was before common rail so I hate to think what it would do to modern diesels.

AWEM

I know someone who used to make their own diesel using paraffin mixed with oil, not sure of the proportions...

Hmm.. we had a number of IBC containers of *stripping* residue tipped on an abandoned waste site here.

regards

The cross-border diesel launderers in the Republic use an acid washing process which creates a large amount of sludge, which the bastards then dump in ditches.

Harry Bloomfield expressed precisely :

Far too much information, I only asked if what I had paid for a gallon was about the usual price - I had expected about 60p a litre :-)

I don't need to know how to remove the dye, I only want it to burn in the cars FBH - which it is quite legal to do, providing it has a completely separate fuel tank, pump and pipe system.

Separate from what?

on 12/01/2012, Tim Streater supposed :

A completely separate system to the fuel system used by the engine used for propulsion of the vehicle.

Mine presently has a completely separate OEM system, apart from it drawing its fuel from the main fuel tank. So I'm adding a small fuel tank just to contain red diesel for the FBH. Customs & Excise (new name?) agree it is quite legal to do this.

Heads up Harry :-)

Ta! lol

Ah. Right. As in a genny set on the back of a truck?

Yes I, can see its street legal

Fuel Burning Heater ...