Uses for waste oil?

[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...

[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?

[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!

[Akzle]

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

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.