Re-Building for the new 'waterless' wash

Well, I have sourced another water heater and have begun the process of turning it into a still. Hopefully, if all goes well, the still will be used to de-meth the biodiesel into its finished product without the use of a water wash. De-meth'ing the biodiesel will perform the same function as a water wash... removing the impurities (soaps, methanol, etc...). The basic reason this works is the soaps are disolved in the methanol; removing the methanol leaves nowhere for the soaps to reside, causing the soaps to essentially fall out. Running this through a filter is all that should be left to do.

If possible, I will use this same still to recover the extra methanol from the glycerin byproduct for re-use.
More on this later if it all works as designed.

The current plan is to have the still finished by the end of this weekend (4/01/07)...we'll see how it goes.