I was talkin to my kid yesterday about this as we were addin another 5 gallons to the collection. What the hell do they do with all this recycled oil. I've never seen it on the shelves for sale. I got 30 gallons of it sittin in the barn right now from just the last few months and I'm tired of just givin it away, I want to do somethin with it.

Last year I tried mixin it with the diesel fuel for the salamander heater, didn't work so well. Just a warning to anybody else that thinks to much out there, don't try this at home. What a mess that was. It didn't burn, it just spit out all over the shop floor.

So what can I use this for and where does it go after we turn it in. -

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99 Quad Cab, 4wd, Drag Comp W/Pump Wire & Boost Elbow installed, K&N Air Canon, MBRP exhaust, Belt Drive Lift Pump and bottom Bulkhead feed from the tank, Isspro EV Pyrometer, Boost Gauge, Fuel Pressure Gauge, DT Pro Fab Trac Bar, South Bend 13-1.25 Con O Clutch, Ranch Hand Bumper, Borgeson Steering Shaft, Black Silicone Boots, 2" Lift Soft Ride Front Coils, Solenoid High Idle Kit, Bilstein 5100 HD Shocks, Rickson 19.5 Wheels w/Hancoock Rubber, HD Maxx Link Sway Bar Links, Superlift dual front stabilizer, EGR Brakes Front and Back, RV275 Injector's, Blue Chip VP44, Prodigy brake controller, B&W Gooseneck hitch and more I can't remember right now. Not to mention more to come I'm sure.
374.2/846.7 at 30psi

good question?????? -

REDRIDE13's Sig:

2003 chevy 2500HD 2"leveling kit, 4" HOg exhaust, K&N intake Hypertech programmer

Forgot to mention, what about hydraulic fluid also. I'll have another 20 gallons of that here shortly to. -

Ive seen recycled oil on the shelves.

I think they blend it with virgin oil to get rid of it. -

Dr. Evil's Sig:

98 12V quad cab 4X4 AND 2001 24V quad cab 4X4

its called castrol


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DieselMinded's Sig:

well this actually made me wanna look it up and it seems like the aussies have better info and usage programs for recycled oil

U.S.: http://www.recycleoil.org/
4. What is recycled motor oil used for?

Used motor oil can be reprocessed into fuel that can be used in furnaces for heat, or in power plants to generate electricity for homes, schools and businesses. It can also be used in industrial and utility boilers, blended for marine fuels, and other uses. Used motor oil can also be re-refined into lubricating oils that meet the same API specifications as virgin motor oil.

Aussie: http://www.oilrecycling.gov.au/what-happens.html
Even gets into the process of how the recycle it
What Happens to Your Recycled Used Oil
Used oil, or 'sump oil' as it is sometimes called, should not be thrown away. Although it gets dirty, used oil can be cleaned of contaminants so it can be recycled again and again. There are many uses for recycled used oil. These include:


Industrial burner oil, where the used oil is dewatered, filtered and demineralised for use in industrial burners;
Mould oil to help release products from their moulds (e.g. pressed metal products, concrete);
Hydraulic oil;
Bitumen based products;
An additive in manufactured products; or
Re-refined base oil for use as a lubricant, hydraulic or transformer oil.
Once you have taken your used oil to your local collection facility, used oil collectors take the used oil and undertake some pre-treatment and recycling of the used oil or sell it to a specialised used oil recycler. -

toy4xchris's Sig:

Mine gets filtered, mixed with 2-stroke oil and burned in the trucks at about a 60-to-1 treat rate. -

what have you found to be the best/easiest way to filter the oil? -

They burn it in waste oil shop heaters up here -

FastCR's Sig:

1995 Chevy K2500 Extended Cab Long Box P Pump 12 Valve + NV4500 + Dana 60 + 37s on 20s
215s, No fuel plate, star wheel all in, WG shut, Southbend
'08 LMM 6" lift, 35's, blacked out, etc. (dads)
I got a pocket full of bread a girl givin' me in the back row at the movies

Not to change the subject but Safety Clean no longer wants our old filters crushed at work. We throw them in a container until they pick them up so they can wash them and reuse them. Dont know hows thats going to work. -

dieseldocter16's Sig:

2001 Dodge Ram 2500 SPORT CTD, leveled, Bilstein 5100's, Recon smoked clearance lights and Line of Fire (thanks 07redsled), SBS diesel 5" T-pipe w/ 5" stacks, pintle hook, Grand General train horn

there is a easy way to remedy them reusing filters..if your talking big rigs i drive a punch thru the bottom of the filter before i remove so i dont have to try to bring a filter down with about a gallon of oil in it...

And as the old oil goes...get a shovel dig a hole, pour in oil and fill with dirt from said hole... -

stkdram55's Sig:

Just an Inline 6 Cylinder

Only 2 defining forces have ever offered to die for you.....Jesus Christ and the American Soldier..
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

This is my current setup:

http://stuff.is-a-geek.net/PhotoAlbu...cs/Filter4.jpg

Whatever you use, it has to filter very finely to get as much of the soot and any other particulate or insoluble contaminants out of it. The Wix filter mounted there is a 12um filter and the Motorguard (black thing on the side of the tank) supposedly goes to submicronic. It uses a roll of toilet paper as the filter element. I run that for an average of 20 hours or so to clean three gallons of oil. -

I have also used it for wood treatment. Kerosene used to make a great wood preservative till it got so expensive but I still soak the ground portion of fence posts in oil before i put em in the ground. -

Hey NadirPoint, where did you buy that motorguard TP filter? -

Motor Guard M30 Sub-Micronic Coalescing Filter 1/4 NPT -