Storing B100

[Matt Bachand]

I have some plastic juice containers which are pretty thick w/ screw on tops. They are 3 liters or so. (look like a gallon to me). Will B100 store well in these? I assume it will, but i'll ask, as it will make one hellova mess to learn this the hard way.

Thanks.

 

[BudTX]

I don't know about B100, but I attempted to store kerosene in the 1 gallon plastic jugs that it was sold in.

The factory sealed jugs still allowed about 10% of the kerosene to evaporate (or something) over a 4 year period. I don't know what caused it, though.

 

[Matt Bachand]

I don't know about B100, but I attempted to store kerosene in the 1 gallon plastic jugs that it was sold in.

The factory sealed jugs still allowed about 10% of the kerosene to evaporate (or something) over a 4 year period. I don't know what caused it, though.

I'm only storing it so its in an easy form to add to my tank 1 gallon per fillup. They will be gone in a few months tops.

Plus its nice to get a visual on it to see settling, sediment, etc.

And of course so I can smell it, and show it off.

Just don't want to come home and find empty jugs and a large mess!!

 

[vegtech]

i was told bio fuel will go bad after 60 days. look into that

 

[Matt Bachand]

i was told bio fuel will go bad after 60 days. look into that

Figures.

 

[Matt Bachand]

http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Myths_Facts.pdf

I guess its 6 months........... This stuff is going to be too much trouble for me I can tell already. I'm going to 2 gallons per 22 gallons or roughly a little under 10% to use it up.

I have 15 gallons in my xfer tank.

Watch it rot my xfer tank hose.

.....................................................................

Argh. Regret.

 

[guybb3]

Just keep it out of the sun, Matt, and you'll be fine.

 

[Matt Bachand]

Just keep it out of the sun, Matt, and you'll be fine.

Meaning out of sunlight? or out of heat?

 

[vegtech]

most of our diesels are set up with Veg systems to run straight vegetable oil and in the diesel tank we run %5 wvo. even the ones not yet with a veg system we run %5 in the tank. we splash blend at 4000 gal. we never have a problem

 

[guybb3]

Meaning out of sunlight? or out of heat?

Mostly sunlight. But keep the container tightly sealed to keep moisture out. Try not to temp. cycle it a lot either, if you get my drift.