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I finally got all the pieces to put my WVO centrifuge together.  Here I am bolting the enclosure to the motor.  You can buy the rotor and the motor from simple centrifuge but I had to design my own enclosure and lid.  I sent the design out to a company I worked with in the fire industry to have built in stainless steel.   Its overkill but most of the cost was labor anyway.  What do you know, it all bolted up first try.  You would think I was an engineer. 

I finally got all the pieces to put my WVO centrifuge together.  Here I am bolting the enclosure to the motor.  You can buy the rotor and the motor from simple centrifuge but I had to design my own enclosure and lid.  I sent the design out to a company I worked with in the fire industry to have built in stainless steel.   Its overkill but most of the cost was labor anyway.  What do you know, it all bolted up first try.  You would think I was an engineer. 

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The brains of the operation.  System runs fully automatic or off.  Manual purge switch is installed for priming only.  Three lights: red-purge valve open, yellow-system on, not to temp, green - system on VO

The brains of the operation.  System runs fully automatic or off.  Manual purge switch is installed for priming only. 

Three lights:

red-purge valve open, yellow-system on, not to temp, green - system on VO

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Northern Tool Tank with hot fox. 3/8” Stainless Braided Teflon fuel lines.

Northern Tool Tank with hot fox. 3/8” Stainless Braided Teflon fuel lines.

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WVO Conversion 2001 F350

I am creating this blog to document and share my experience with the WVO conversion of my F350. The west coast hippie tree hugger in me really gets off on this stuff and I am glad to be able to share some experience and knowledge to those that are in the information gathering phase.

I am a mechanical engineer with 10 years in heavy truck design (Western Star Trucks, Freightliner, ect.)I found that it took an immense amount of research for me to gather enough information to put together a kit that was up to my standards. I am also setting up a WVO Co-op in Charleston, SC to further the cause and add to the community.

For now, I will simply list out some of the systems I have pulled together, if there is interest, I will post the details.

1) I am currently collecting 300G/week of WVO. We have a heated Darling storage tank on site and I draw the oil from the outside of the building.

2) We are in the process of building our centrifuge to clean the oil. It will include a heating circuit and a level switch to turn the system off at the end of the batch

3) I have a complete Ford PSD kit designed. Simmilar to veggie stroke. Works on pressure differential and check valves. Fully automatic switch over from diesel to VO, automatic purge and shutdown when the ignition is turned off. Wife proof operation.

So far, I have 10k Miles running on the veggie system without even a hiccup. I am going to have to develop a Cummins system soon as a friend needs one. It looks like it will have to be a solenoid switching setup.

For additional information go to www.Palmettowvo.com you can fill out a form to get in contact with me.

Leon


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