Thread: Waste Oil

Our local tip (sorry, recycling depot ) will take 10 litres free. Give your local one a call.

I use the local tip but it's a one hour return trip. They accept up to 10 litres but I usually take more. I have got most of the bits to make a waste oil burning heater for the garage. I need to machine up the burner which is a simple trough. I picked up a chimney off eBay for a tenner and the casing is a 60 litre oil drum. See Mother Earth: Waste Oil Heater

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A good suggestion I got the other day was to thin it with diesel, put it into a garden sprayer and while out on runs, say during the lunch break, give the underside of the chassis and around the other bits that might go rusty, a bit of a spray with it.

That's what I 'm going to do with mine.

Cheers
Alan

Originally Posted by p38arover

I use the local tip but it's a one hour return trip. They accept up to 10 litres but I usually take more. I have got most of the bits to make a waste oil burning heater for the garage. I need to machine up the burner which is a simple trough. I picked up a chimney off eBay for a tenner and the casing is a 60 litre oil drum. See Mother Earth: Waste Oil Heater

If you live out of suburbia, you could hunt down a choofer - Smudge pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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depending on the definition of suburbia, even then it may be good policy to make sure the neighbours have taken thier washing in before lighting the monster ?

I have 3 years worth in containers sitting around here if anyone wants it.
I plan to take it to the local tip as they will accept it for free.
20 litres went into a mates truck as he needed oil and the stuff that came out of the Defender was in better condition than what is truck normaly ran on.

good evening, i represent the epa and have taken stock of your posts and oil disposal systems.
an officer will be visiting each of you soon.

Originally Posted by disco2hse

A good suggestion I got the other day was to thin it with diesel, put it into a garden sprayer and while out on runs, say during the lunch break, give the underside of the chassis and around the other bits that might go rusty, a bit of a spray with it.

That's what I 'm going to do with mine.

Cheers
Alan

On the contrary, I would say this is an irresponsible suggestion bordering on environmental vandalism. "Dumping" diesel and sump oil in the bush isn't a good idea. If you want rustproofing use fish oil or lanolin/lanotec.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

If you have a diesel you can filter it and burn it. Racor used to make installations for filtering and metering waste oils into bulk fuel storage. I have literature on this somewhere in my archives. If you don't have a diesel just put the drum in the wheelie bin like everyone else.

AFAIK Racor stopped selling this setup for environmental/emissions reasons and injection system wear issues.

Harry

If you send it to recycling they will burn it in a cement kiln or some such and create CO2. If you put in on your fence posts or around retaining walls it will go to ground where it came from and you have saved emissions. Come Kev,s emission trading should be able to get some money for carbon banking!