Uses for waste oil?

[smmudd83_1999]

So I've got a couple of old milk jugs that I've siphoned off my old engine oil, gearbox oil and read diff oil into.
What do I do with it?

Would it make a good water repellent if I were to dip timber in it? (I'm only half joking).

[Shoshoni]

Supercheap takes waste oil - http://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/super-green/oil-recycling.aspx

[Akzle]

build yourself a furnace/forge/smelter, drip feed it into an airstream to your burner. Burns 97% clean.

[Motu]

I use it in my daughter's car.

[caseye]

Spray on path and boundary edges, No weeds charlie.

[Hitcher]

Some interesting things happen when 5.6% is added to ammonium nitrate, stirred well, and then exposed to a detonation source...

[BuzzardNZ]

A mate of mine uses it in his Scott oiler.

[bogan]

Used to use it in my van's total loss oiling system.


but VTNZ became unimpressed when they found some of it again :laugh:

[Woodman]

I just fill up the empty containers with it and stash them in the shed. By the time I kark it, it will be someone elses problem.:msn-wink:

[FJRider]

A mate of mine uses it in his Scott oiler.

And will probably wonder why his chain wears out so fast ... :laugh:

[bogan]

I just fill up the empty containers with it and stash them in the shed. By the time I kark it, it will be someone elses problem.:msn-wink:

Store em in a canoe, and go out viking style to save on crematorium/burial costs :bleh:

[Erelyes]

Used to use it in my van's total loss oiling system.

Meanwhile, bikers complain about oil all over the roads. :bleh:

[caspernz]

I don't know about your local Repco or Supercheap, but in my neck of the woods they have used oil collection bins...

[Tazz]

How is this even a question?

Oil wresting is the only solution.


http://www.festivalphoto.net/Festival/Wacken%20Open%20Air/2009/20090730_Oil%20wrestling/images/Wacken_Open_Air_20090730_Oil_Wrestling_9834.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h34/slayer_taunu/babyoilwrestling.jpg

Or, almost all refuse stations have a container you can tip it into. They don't all take the containers you being it in.

[F5 Dave]

A mate stained his fence with my collection. Otherwise tip collection point.

[Akzle]

Some interesting things happen when 5.6% is added to ammonium nitrate, stirred well, and then exposed to a detonation source...

hau dafuq duz that work?

Done diesel with KNO3... But that's all oxidisey and shit.. Cant imagine waste oil has nearly as much pep...

[caspernz]

hau dafuq duz that work?

Done diesel with KNO3... But that's all oxidisey and shit.. Cant imagine waste oil has nearly as much pep...

Cut in a bit of kero and it becomes a sappers' cheap substitute for real bang bang stuff...:psst::innocent:

[Oakie]

hau dafuq duz that work?

Done diesel with KNO3... But that's all oxidisey and shit.. Cant imagine waste oil has nearly as much pep...

Yeah, I was thinking diesel too. ANFO.

[Grumph]

build yourself a furnace/forge/smelter, drip feed it into an airstream to your burner. Burns 97% clean.

I simply pour it in small amounts into my small pot belly stove onto the wood already burning - or onto coal...Given i'd have to go 70km to dispose of it "properly" this is probably the cleanest solution. By the end of winter I've cleaned out the drums...

[EmBe]

So I've got a couple of old milk jugs that I've siphoned off my old engine oil, gearbox oil and read diff oil into.
What do I do with it?

You can dispose of it at the Happy Valley landfill, they have used oil collection drums or just leave your full bottles (with secure lid) on the shelves. No cost. That's what I normally do, but now...


Some interesting things happen when 5.6% is added to ammonium nitrate, stirred well, and then exposed to a detonation source...

...5.6% you say, is that by weight or volume? :whistle:

[Scuba_Steve]

Would it make a good water repellent if I were to dip timber in it? (I'm only half joking).

Cut it with petrol or similar 50:50 so the wood can absorb & it can make it water resistant I wouldn't call it water proof
You can also use it for fuel in a diesel, it's what I used to do with mine back when I had a diesel

[scumdog]

An oil-filter full of your waste oil + 1" of old road flare = most excellent fire lighter!:niceone:

[Akzle]

Cut in a bit of kero and it becomes a sappers' cheap substitute for real bang bang stuff...:psst::innocent:

it is real bangbang shit. Oxygen on fire at a rather loud rate.

[Old Steve]

I just take it down to the local garage in the village and pour it into their waste oil tank. Here in Auckland, Salter Haulage collects it and it is loaded onto the Golden Bay cement ship into the bilges and taken to Golden Bay where it is used as fuel for their cement kiln.

This reuses the waste oil, replacing virgin oil or coal as the fuel in the cement making. Reconditioning waste oil back into usable base stock for lubricating oil isn't economic and there's also 10 to 20% highly carginogenic waste material left after waste oil recycling. These days, base oil quality and consistency is very important in making high performance lubes so recycled base oils can only be used in lower performance and non-critical lubricants.

Incidentally, cement makers can also use ground used tires as cement kiln fuel, and the steel radial wires in used tires contributes to the iron required to make cement so ground tires are a win-win, fuel and iron contribution. It's just that the cement ships make a good way of getting the waste oil back to the cement plant, would be much more difficult to transport ground used tires to the cement plant and especially so the amount of stockpiled used tires around the country. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to bite the bullet and introduce a recycling fee on every tire sold to cover disposal costs.

[Akzle]

Iy. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to bite the bullet and introduce a recycling fee on every tire sold to cover disposal costs.

this should be mandatory.
The dumbest fucken thing is we a) allow imports with fucked tyres and b) IMPORT SECOND HAND AND RETREAD TYRES. For fuckssake. Which then end up in our landfills or dumped out in wiri. Some poor cunt is going to have to pay to clean that shit up one time. Stupid fucking govt.

Vote akzle.

[Akzle]

and concrete is fucking stupid, too .tonne for tonne it causes the mostest CO2 of pretty much any stupid fucking building material. Fucking fuck fucker stupid fucking cunt fuck human dumbfucks.

[scumdog]

and concrete is fucking stupid, too .tonne for tonne it causes the mostest CO2 of pretty much any stupid fucking building material. Fucking fuck fucker stupid fucking cunt fuck human dumbfucks.


Meh, who cares....

[BMWST?]

Sooner or later, someone is going to have to bite the bullet and introduce a recycling fee on every tire sold to cover disposal costs.
i thnk you will find they already do.Pretty sure i have seen such a charge here in welly

[bogan]

What are we supposed to do with old anti-freeze? Do they take that shit at oil recyclers? or to we pay to dispose of it somewhere? Or just dump it down the drain?

[Motu]

i thnk you will find they already do.Pretty sure i have seen such a charge here in welly

And you should hear the customers bleat and moan about it. They don't want transparenty, so it just gets built into the price and then they are happy.

[ellipsis]

What are we supposed to do with old anti-freeze? Do they take that shit at oil recyclers? or to we pay to dispose of it somewhere? Or just dump it down the drain?


...mix it with cheap wine, relabel it as 'fucking good' wine, sell it to tourists...

[Akzle]

What are we supposed to do with old anti-freeze? Do they take that shit at oil recyclers? or to we pay to dispose of it somewhere? Or just dump it down the drain?

feed it to cats

[Motu]

The company that takes our oil filters takes the coolant as well. They were in today - took a drum of oil filters and a drum of coolant. Done, now it's there problem. Another charge customers will moan about....save the planet, but I'm not paying for it.

[BMWST?]

And you should hear the customers bleat and moan about it. They don't want transparenty, so it just gets built into the price and then they are happy.
doesnt worry me.if i had to dispose of my tyres myself i would have to pay to get rid of them.Its a legitimate charge!

[gsxr]

And you should hear the customers bleat and moan about it. They don't want transparenty, so it just gets built into the price and then they are happy.

Tyre dumping prices in Christchurch
Tyres - Per Type Price
Car Tyre $9.00
4WD Tyre $12.50
Truck Tyre $30.00
Tractor Tyre $75.00
Metric tonne rate $876.00 Per T


As above most tyre retailers/resellers charge at least $5.00 for discarded casing or as above poster said builds it into the price.

[F5 Dave]

Coolant etc pour it on gravel rather than down the drain.

[Erelyes]

Coolant etc pour it on gravel rather than down the drain.

Um, which does what exactly?

[F5 Dave]

Poisons a small bit of the earth rather than the waterways.

[SVboy]

Excuse my ignorance re coolant, but am I right that coolant is now glycol free, is it still harmful to the environment?

[Motu]

Coolant etc pour it on gravel rather than down the drain.

Before there was any recycling for coolant we were told to pour it down the toilet, and let the sewage treatment plant deal with it. It used to block up the toilet....or it could've been that fat Indian fucker that worked on the pumps, he used to leave porno mags under the cystern lid.

[ellipsis]

Before there was any recycling for coolant we were told to pour it down the toilet, and let the sewage treatment plant deal with it. It used to block up the toilet....or it could've been that fat Indian fucker that worked on the pumps, he used to leave porno mags under the cystern lid.


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[Erelyes]

Excuse my ignorance re coolant, but am I right that coolant is now glycol free, is it still harmful to the environment?

Some of them use a different type of glycol.

Ethylene glycol = evil shit.
Propylene glycol = so nontoxic, they even put it in food.

I'm pretty sure most off the shelf stuff is still Ethlyene based though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifreeze#Primary_agents

[SVboy]

I thought because of its bad properties it had been reformulated to be non/less toxic? The "old" antifreeze was very slippery if spilled, the stuff I use in the cars and bikes now much less so, and lacks that antifreeze smell.

[Erelyes]

I thought because of its bad properties it had been reformulated to be non/less toxic? The "old" antifreeze was very slippery if spilled, the stuff I use in the cars and bikes now much less so, and lacks that antifreeze smell.

Don't think so. They're probably just selling watered down shit; straight stuff is around 1000g/l whereas the premix stuff is 350g/l.

Having a quick squiz at the supercheap auto site it doesn't even look like they stock anything Propylene based

[Erelyes]

Poisons a small bit of the earth rather than the waterways.

Fair call. Wikipedia says it breaks down in the air in 10 days and in water/soil in a few weeks.

[F5 Dave]

Penrite 10tenths is not eth glycol. Racing safe apparently. Wouldn't drink it.

[bogan]

Fair call. Wikipedia says it breaks down in the air in 10 days and in water/soil in a few weeks.

I tried throwing the pan of it up into the air, it came down sooner than ten days though, gives the garden a unique aroma so all is not lost :bleh:

[Old Steve]

Propylene glycol based coolants are only used in food stuff applications, they're very rare though there may be the odd marketer who uses propylene glycol as a marketing differentiator. I think all automotive coolants are still ethylene glycol based (MEG, mono ethylene glycol). There's been a change in the type of automotive coolants used with a lot of organic acid technology long life coolants now on the market. Previously coolants were based on nitrite or borate technology, these chemicals formed a physical barrier on the internal surfaces of the cooling system.

MEG is extremely toxic, it's T50 rating (the volume that if drunk will be fatal to 50% of drinkers) is about 350 mL - about a COKE can volume. And that 50% who die are the lucky ones, the other 50% would have glycol crystals develop in their brains, and become blind and mentally disabled.

But MEG is easily biodegraded, mixed with garden soil it will simply decompose. I've always poured it onto a corner of the garden a little distance away from any shrubbery.

I don't know how the SG of premixed coolant would be only .35 (350 mg/L), premixed coolant is MEG (SG 1.11) mixed 50/50 with distilled water (SG 1) - SG of the premixed coolant should be around 1.05.

[Akzle]

T50 rating (the volume that if drunk will be fatal to 50% of drinkers) is about 350 mL - about a COKE can volume. And that 50% who die are the lucky ones, the other 50% would have glycol crystals develop in their brains, and become blind and mentally disabled.

((that would be LD50 there ma ninja.))


so THATs what the new driver licensing system is composed of....

[Swoop]

and concrete is fucking stupid, too .tonne for tonne it causes the mostest CO2 of pretty much any stupid fucking building material. Fucking fuck fucker stupid fucking cunt fuck human dumbfucks.

You prefer driving on motorways made of straw? Living in a grass hut?
Concrete. We should be building all our roads from the stuff so that it lasts. Instead of cheap shit roads that needs doing-up every weekend (and burning far more greenatic gasses).

[Akzle]

You prefer driving on motorways made of straw? Living in a grass hut?
hahahahahahhahaha. it's funny cos it's true.


Concrete. We should be building all our roads from the stuff so that it lasts. Instead of cheap shit roads that needs doing-up every weekend (and burning far more greenatic gasses).

your such a nigger.

while i agree about the appalling methodology and make/upkeep of roadage, concrete the answer is not.

[Swoop]

concrete the answer is not.
You'd better tell those fullahs making the new motorway.
And those people who built that tall tower in downtown Auckland, some years back.

[Akzle]

You'd better tell those fullahs making the new motorway.
And those people who built that tall tower in downtown Auckland, some years back.

yeeeeeeeahhh.

compressive strength is maximum. give is minimum.
is not good for trucks. shocks. all tbhe vibe goes back into the sauce, man.
something has to give.

as for the needle... why the fuck. ever.

i endorse bulding a 40 ft concrete wall around auckland.

vote akzle.

[Scuba_Steve]

i endorse bulding a 40 ft concrete wall around auckland.

vote akzle.

As long as that walled in Auckland becomes a "use" for our waste oil you got my vote :niceone:

[Akzle]

As long as that walled in Auckland becomes a "use" for our waste oil you got my vote :niceone:

well. I was going to fill it with water.

But waste oil could work too.

[Scuba_Steve]

well. I was going to fill it with water.

But waste oil could work too.

much harder to swim in oil :msn-wink:

[Swoop]

as for the needle... why the fuck. ever.

Did you ever see the initial design for the tower?
It looked identical to a vibrator.

Blimmin' hilarious.

[SVboy]

Did you ever see the initial design for the tower?
It looked identical to a vibrator.

Blimmin' hilarious.

Yeah they wanted a design that would compliment a cunt like axle......

[Akzle]

Yeah they wanted a design that would compliment a cunt like axle......

when people think ax, they think, "giant penis" (one way or another)

who am i to argue.

[Akzle]

Did you ever see the initial design for the tower?
It looked identical to a vibrator.

Blimmin' hilarious.

better if they actually made it vibrate. Or explode.
But really. Noone gives a fuck. It's auckland.

[varminter]

better if they actually made it vibrate. Or explode.
But really. Noone gives a fuck. It's auckland.

Who's Noone? and is it pronounced Noo Nee?