KOH via Mailorder:

http://www.aaa-chemicals.com/pohy9050poba.html

50 Lb bag - $74.99 + $65 shipping including Hazmat

UPDATE 10/2014: AAA Chemicals now out of business, recommend the following:

http://www.asoapysailor.com

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I'm looking for Methanol in the San Francisco North Bay.

So far I've found:

USA
American Canyon, California

Bailey Brothers
4901 Paoli Loop Rd.
American Canyon, CA. 94503
707.255.6020
707.642.7744
bailey-01@hotmail.com
http://www.baileybrothers01.com

15 gallon Methanol quantities @ $4.50 a gallon
55 gallons Methanol @ $3.50 a gallon

Seems kinda high. I told him I was making BioDiesel. Wonder what he would have said if I was using it for racing fuel. He seemed to be hedging a bit on his answers.

GulDam

USA
San Lorenzo, California
San Francisco Bay Area

ERC Racing Fuels - price on 12/3/2010
http://ercracingfuels.com/

NET - $3.05/GAL - 1 - 15 GALLONS
DRUM - $2.80/GAL - 16 - 109 GALLONS
JOBBER - $2.60/GAL - 110 - 549 GALLONS
DISTRIB - $2.45/GAL - 550 - 999 GALLONS
1/2 TNKR - $2.40/GAL - 1000 - 8000GALLONS
ALL PRICING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PRICING IS F.O.B. SAN LORENZO, CA.

ERC RACING FUELS
PH: 510-276-9334 - X18

Minimum 5gallons purchase.
16 gallon drums require a $40 deposit. Ouch.

M-F 9-4
S 9-12

GulDam

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If you dont mind filling out some paper work and have a buisness address.
This is the best Ive found. $500 min order with a $35 shipping charge.

330 gallon tote $1.80 gallon, No tote deposit, $35 shipping charge.

Ashland Account Manager: Mitch Upton
Email: msupton@ashland.com
Phone #: 708-203-4535
Fax #: 859-357-5177

Must have a buisness.

Parkersburg, WV

Rt. 47 Carry out has Methanol for Racing Go Carts - usually around 2.45 a gallon
99.5% Pure. Pull up to the pump and pump.

Spencer, WV

Harris Oil carries OXYCHEM KOH. 90% Purity. 74.00 a bag (55lb Bag)

Wouldn't it be cheaper just to make your methanol.
You can just heat wood or even sawdust to a charcoal than while the charcoal is about red hot you can run steam over it (through it) to produce hydrogen and Carbon monoxide. This can be ran over a catalysis of copper, zinc oxide, and alumina with a little heat and pressure. You'll get methanol and some access gas. Just condense it and use a drying agent. Bingo now you have your own methanol for less than 25 cents or less a gallon if your wood is free and you dont count your labor.
This works well if you using pure hydrogen and Carbon monoxide. If made from wood it might ruin your catalysis after a while because of contaminates.


Don't waste any access gas released while making the charcoal and released at the final step. This gas can be use to run a gas motor since it will be mostly hydrogen and Carbon monoxide. You well need to change the timing on your gas engine.

Before you think you wont need this access gas (water-gas) keep reading.

you can plug and a single phase 240 or 120 volt induction motor to your wall outlet and use the gas engine to spin the induction motor faster in the same direction its already turning. This will make the motor start generating current. In many areas this will turn your meter backwards as it feeds current back into the grid. It will be running at the right frequency for your power grid. I wont go into any details on how or why it will be the right frequency. Just google it to verify it if you dont believe me. 100 pounds of wood can produce a lot of gas. This gas will be mostly hydrogen and Carbon monoxide.

Whatever you do dont use a regular generator to feed power back to the grid. This wont work and you liable to blow a fuse and ruin your generator. An induction motor is probably the most common motors out there and you need to make no modifications to it if you use it in the way I mentioned.

If you want to use it as a stand alone generator you will need to make modifications (like adding running capacitors). You can youtube it for some good examples how this is done. I could be wrong but believe you wont get near the power output if you use it as a standalone generator.
If connected to the grid and the motor doesn't aromatically stop generating power on a power failure you will need to add a shut off safty device to make it turns off during a power failure otherwise you could electrocute someone working on power-lines not expecting current.



You can read more about this gas at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gas

Astro Chemical Springfield Mass
KOH flake 50 lb. bag $2.16 lb.
Regards,
JoeD

here is the company and sale's guy I deal with in Illinois
I can buy NAOH AND KOH AND METHANOL from them.

if you call him tell him Nick from Reliable Snow and Ice Control sent you..

Jeff Brendel
Sales Representative


1355 South River Street
Batavia, Illinois 60510
TEL: 630.879.2700
FAX: 630.879.2734
CELL: 630.689.8001
EMAIL: jeff.brendel@producerschemical.com
WEBSITE: www.producerschemical.com

Brenntag Mid-South
3900 Tucker Avenue
Shively, KY 40216-4939
502-448-6200


Great prices accept for methanol.
$3.14 100 Gal
$2.68 500 Gal
$2.55 1000 GAL
$0.60 LBS LYE-NaOH (Sodium hydroxide)
$1.04 LBS KOH- (potassium hydroxide)

Drying Agents
$0.702 LBS Sodium-Sulfate
$1.45 LBS Magnesium-Sulphate

Drying Agents are recyclable and can be used over and over.

What is everyone's current Methanol, KOH, and NaOH price?
Methanol in tampa is $160
KOH $75 50lb bag

Decent price?

Brenntag northeast
Brian Bartashus bbartashus@brenntag.com

todays prices
KOH flake .88 lb in 55lb bags
Methanol 2.66 gal in drums
$25 insurance surcharge for pickup
FOB Reading PA

They want you to order as much as you can carry without placards 1000#
Today that was 10 bags of KOH and 1 drum of methanol

I had called Tarr 3 months ago and was quoted $185 for 55g of Methanol.
I just called today and they want $330.
http://www.tarrllc.com

There's got to be a better price in Portland, Oregon?

quote:

Originally posted by JoggerFogger:
I had called Tarr 3 months ago and was quoted $185 for 55g of Methanol.
I just called today and they want $330.
http://www.tarrllc.com

There's got to be a better price in Portland, Oregon?

Insane isn't it? I too called Tarr Inc. here in Auburn and they quoted me $402.00 for a drum. (That's out the door including taxes, drum exchange, and fees)

still paying $150 per drum here in PA

Methanol 99.9% $214.50 + $32 drum fee ($15 refund on drum)
Northwest Solvents & Supply
635 North Columbia Boulevard, Portland, OR 97217
(503) 286-9019 ‎

Sonoco Methanol 99.85% $225 + $25 deposit
Garage Motorsports
1103 W McLoughlin, Vancouver, WA 98660
(360) 735-0753
www.garagemotorsports.com

quote:

Originally posted by binuya:

quote:

Originally posted by JoggerFogger:
I had called Tarr 3 months ago and was quoted $185 for 55g of Methanol.
I just called today and they want $330.
http://www.tarrllc.com

There's got to be a better price in Portland, Oregon?

Insane isn't it? I too called Tarr Inc. here in Auburn and they quoted me $402.00 for a drum. (That's out the door including taxes, drum exchange, and fees)

try Cascade Distributors...195 plus drum (25 full exchange back) plus 25 extra fee per order

charging for the drums is just gouging IMO. If its the metal drums like we get, they are crappy quality anyways compared to others I have seen.

We either cut off the tops and use them for WVO collection or they go to the scrap yard, after a thorough airing out upside down

Here, its a $60.00 deposit for the drum, you get it back when you return it. I inquired about getting a tote and they want $1000 deposit for the SS tote and the methanol is no cheaper then buying it by the drum... crazy
But they will deliver for free go figure!
Cheers,
Jon

Just picked up a drum from Tarr, LLC. Price dropped to $143.00 (+tax,fees, etc.). That's just $2.60/gallon. I haven't seen it this low in a while. I thought it was during the winter when methanol prices went up. It was just a few months ago this same supplier sold drums for nearly twice what I paid today. Anyone know what's behind the current price decrease?

Wow. Our major supplier just hit us with a 10cent increase. I have asked them before about increase and decrease but they always tell me its supply and demand. We get ours from Nexeo , a Major supplier. If you buy it at 6 drums its $1.90 a gallon.