I make my own biodiesel and now have a gallon of glycerine. I am about to have several gallons more. No time for soap or anything like that. I would be happy to sell it for 50 cents a gallon or maybe less but to whom? Who could use that much? It makes a great lube for my steam engines and it is nice to keep a few ounces around but I need to just get rid of it unless there is a high profit item I can make.

I know it is high in vitamin e, but it sure is a ferocious laxative!

Skip www.sensiblesteam.com

-- Skip (146942@msn.com), March 17, 2000

Answers

Skip,I don't know of any high profit item you can make from your glycerine, but I would be interested in buying it from you. Where are you located? Shipping may be a little high, I bet this stuff is pretty heavy. Thanks,Chris

-- Chris Dehne (mdehne@ccpl.carr.org), March 17, 2000.

Down in Branson, MO. Tolerance capital of the world (we have to be, the way the tourist drive!)

for more info on my place, go to www.sensiblesteam.com

-- skip (146942@msn.com), March 17, 2000.

Skip, is that the same type of glycerin used to make soap? If so, maybe you could learn to make pretty soap and sell it to some of the gillions of shops that cater to touristas? You live in beautiful country, Skip. We got caught in one of the showtime traffic jams there, and we weren't even going to a show. Never again. If I ever go back to Missouri, I'll go AROUND Branson!!! But it really is beautiful, and has employment opportunities too.

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), March 18, 2000.

At the prices you're willing to let it go, you ought to be able to find amateur soap-makers to take it off your hands. It's a common industrial chemical raw material, so you ought to be able to find going prices on the Web somewhere. However, if all that's too much trouble, surely it would burn well as a heat source for your steam engines?

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), March 18, 2000.

Biodiesel makes what type of glycerine? Vegetable? I paid $5 for a pint of the stuff for one of my herbal recipes, as a preservative. If it is vegetable origen, I would like to buy some.

-- T Carroll (waelibry@gvtc.com), March 21, 2000.