How to get rid of used motor oil??
My mechanic has about 20 drums of used motor oil and wants to get rid of if. Now this stuff has all kinds of stuff mixed in it, hydraulic fluid and maybe some antifreeze. He can't find anyone that wants it. Can this stuff be cleaned up and used in diesel engines? Does anyone want to come to MS and pick this stuff up? I have not checked with local EPA people because it could possibly bite him, if you know what I mean. He wants to get rid of it and I am looking for a cheap way out for him. Thanks, Tom
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I smell a giveaway but I'll pass, thank you. [xx(] 0 -
When I changed the oil in my car, I used to use the used motor oil and paint my fences with it. It would accomplish two things:
1. It would help preserve the wood.
2. It would keep the horses from chewing the wood.
Of course, nowadays those *&^% oil filters are too hard to get to, so I pay someone to do the job for me. They find someone to take the oil off their hands.0 -
I once dropped off my used motor oil at a local Oreilly Auto Parts store. They had a vat in the back where customers could just pour it into. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Beeramid
I once dropped off my used motor oil at a local Oreilly Auto Parts store. They had a vat in the back where customers could just pour it into.
I used to toss my cigarettes in there...0 -
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I smell a giveaway but I'll pass, thank you. [xx(]
Please count RunForest in for this very generous giveaway.0 -
It is worth money. Around here people buy it to burn in stoves for heat.
All the mechanic shops around here will take it for free. They then sell it.0 -
Around here there are places that recycle it and will take used oil. Some people have waste oil furnaces in their shops too and they will take it too. They don't like gasoline or paint thiners in it though. Solvent and diesel fuel in small anounts is ok. 0 -
Up here in the frozen north of Indiana, there are guys that come around and buy it. Others burn it in their oil burning stoves to heat their work shops. Antifreeze tends to put the fire out but after letting it set for abit, the oil floats to the top and can be siphoned off. 0 -
I dump it in the yard hoping it will flow to the neighbor that is a real arse#$l3 and kill his grass/ plants. 0 -
Yeah, he burns it in his shop too but winters are not long enough nor cold enough to burn it all. I was hoping someone might know a way to clean it up to burn in a diesel engine. How do people clean up used kitchen grease to run in diesels. He has accumulated around 1000 gallons of the stuff and it is a shame to just throw it away. Tom 0 -
Find a farmer in your area that has a barn cleaner and/or manurer spreader. Lots of them use old oil on the drive chains. 0 -
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quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
I smell a giveaway but I'll pass, thank you. [xx(]
Please count RunForest in for this very generous giveaway.
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When I worked at the Lube Center a couple summers ago, we sold our used motor oil for $0.66 a gallon. Some company came with a truck every couple weeks and pumped our tank. We also took used motor oil from people for free. 0 -
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Yeah, he burns it in his shop too but winters are not long enough nor cold enough to burn it all. I was hoping someone might know a way to clean it up to burn in a diesel engine. How do people clean up used kitchen grease to run in diesels. He has accumulated around 1000 gallons of the stuff and it is a shame to just throw it away. Tom
Start making phone calls, he is sitting on around +/- $500, start looking up some oil recycling companies and take no less than $0.50 a gallon.0 -
A lot of places up here in the north have furnaces burning old engine oil. However the oil must be pure oil No transmission fluid or antifreeze can be mixed. And the places that buy old oil and recycle it will not accept contaminated engine oil. Railroad I worked for had one and we had 3 drums at each crew location that had heavy equipment. One was for engine oil, one for anti freeze and one for hydrolic oil. Maintance shop had the furnace and would pick the drums up and use the old oil. They would have a lot of trouble in the winter with the furnace because some operator would dump antifreeze or hydrolic oil in the wrong drum. I change my own oil and take it over to the shop to burn. Also the trash transfer station here has a drum you can dump old oil into. 0 -
once mixed with coolant and other stuff.. not many will want it, even for burning and forget getting a good price for it.
It's far harder to clean up and make new oil out of..
But the way they clean up the oil, is running it through oil-separators, like the ones you use for heavy fuel and lubricating oil centrifuges.
That will spin out any water, debris and so - and clean it right up.
Then they put in a new batch of additives to prolong the life of the recycled oil.0 -
The county I live in has recycle centers where we take it,they in turn sell it which helps keeps taxes down. 0 -
And yeah, tell yer mechanic to quit storing that much- or the EPA will explain Small Generator, Hazardous Waste to him. 0 -
If there is Ethylene Glycol from anti freeze in the motor oil it has been contaminated and cannot be recycled. Oil recyclers will test the oil in those drums for glycol when they arrive. 0 -
The company that came and got our oil NEVER tested it. They just pumped it up and wrote out a check based on the gallon meter on their truck. 0 -
I have a waste oil heater in my business. If you deliver it to Kentucky, I'll gladly take it. 0 -
The local dumps in CA recycle the stuff. 0 -
Thanks for all replies. His problem is the contamination. Had he kept it all separated it would be no problem and he would have a salable product. I'm pretty sure I can find a place to donate it but wanted to see if it could be used before giving it away. Maybe I can talk him into keeping it separated from now on. Tom 0 -
We have a waste oil heater in our shop, will burn anything from gasoline through gear oil. Burns it all with no problem. Antifreeze is a problem with it. Antifreeze is heavier than oil and will settle out.
SafetyKleen comes out and hauls off what we don't burn, they don't care what's in the tank, oil, diesel, antifreeze, whatever. Careful that you don't get involved with stuff like transformer oil.
A few years ago fellow down the road bought a trailer full of drums of used hyrdraulic oil for use in his waste oil furnace. Turns out it was aircraft hydraulic oil. Won't burn unless you get it real hot, got a flame retardant in it. He was a little dissapointed, tried mixing it with diesel to get it to burn, that didn't work well either. Seems that the recyclers don't want it either, got a smell to it that is easily identifys it too.0 -
Soak old stumps with it and pile scrap on top and burn. Great way to get rid of that old stump and used oil. 0 -
I just dig a deep hole and pour it in, that's where it came from in the first place. No one's going to claim I don't do my part to recycle. 0 -
interesting reading
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-ead-tas-salvyard.pdf0 -
Have you tried drinking it.[?]
Who knows, It might be good.[:D]0 -
Back in the old days you could have sprayed it on dirt roads for dust control. Once the glycol is in the oil there is no economical way to remove it and recyle the oil. Burning it as fuel is possible but as AJ Christ already mentioned waste oil fired heaters don't like anti freeze. 0 -
Send it to this guy--he can soak his clothes in it, right before he burns them...http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=237750 0
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