Originally Posted by fabmandelux
Good for you Tom!
I knew you could do it! One thing tho, you should use 7.8 as your base amount if your KOH is 90% pure.
I can't beleve your going to do a small batch first. When I made my first batch I built a 100 gallon appleseed style processor and filled it up for the first batch................wound up with 100 gallons of "glop"
Ok, maybe a test batch first is a good idea
Sure glad I only did a small batch. I have 20 liters of brown "gook" I have seen this on other posts so I must have made a classic mistake.
Here are the particulars; All measurements were precise.
20 liters WVO (titrated to 2 grams plus 7.8 base grams KOH)
Heated WVO to 150 Deg. Added 1 gal.Methoxide and proceeded to mix.
Mixture was not tar colored as you mentioned so I added 1 gram KOH.
No change in color but proceeded anyway.
Let separate 12 hours-medium brown gravy that looks like someone didn't mix the flour in properly when they made the gravy.
Mistakes I could have made: WVO was not maintained at 145 deg during mix (130 at best)
I dumped methoxide in all at once, then started mixing.
Inside of container was painted and it started peeling off. (I filtered before going to separater. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Tom