Where Does My Recycled Oil Go
 

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.

good question??????:humm:

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.

its called castrol


:D :yeah:

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

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.

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

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.:humm:

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...:U:

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?

high tech!!! :wow: :U: I had pictured more of a gravity type contraption with coffee filters or something :blush:

I think all that "used oil" goes to the same place that all the missing socks go after being in the dryer!!

Soon as I find a filter and some form of pump mine's goin back through the truck in the other side of the engine it came from :5:

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can also drip it into a wood stove for added heat

treat wood

start bonfires?

Hell do it all. The filtered oil goes into the truck and what it filters out to the rest of it.

Hmmm... Up here in Idaho the used ol is collected locally for waste oil heaters like at the local Chevron or at the State shed for heat. But it a good way to dispose of it.

I either use it to stain my trailer boards or the shop my neighbor works at uses it to heat in the winter, they have big waste oil heaters. It works great as a stain, repels water great and it technically is FREE to you since it is waste. :c:

Can you elaborate on this a little bit please? If I understand you correctly, you mix the used and filtered oil with 2-stroke oil and use it as diesel fuel in your trucks? Do the engines like this or does it pose problems? Sorry I've got so many questions, I've just never heard of this.

If I understand him correctly he is mixing the two and then mixing that with diesel at a 60:1 ratio.

Yes, that's correct. 2parts WMO + 1 part 2-stroke, half gallon per tank of fuel. I add in a little Howes diesel treat over the winter as well to avoid any possible gelling issues because it can get rater chilly around here every so often through December to February.

I may eventualy wean out the 2-stroke altogether if I'm generating enough WMO over time to do without it. The current trend in my used oil stock (slowly increasing) and the amount I'm burning in the trucks seems to support that idea.

Keep in mind that these other guys are burnin it in 12V trucks and not in our 24V ones. Not that 24V trucks may not burn it also but I haven't seen that discussion here yet.

I burning it in a 1st Gen and an '07 5.9 commonrail.

I have a home built waste oil burner. Keeps the shop space nice and toasty-

It will burn in 24v trucks. I did it for a while in my truck. The downside was it dirties the injector tips. My injectors with ~10k on them were dirtier than the stockers with 150k on them.

Bring on the info and pics here.

I still want all the info and pics i can get on this oil burning heater and filter setup. I know there's oil heaters out there but didn't know there was a home build version you could build. I got an old shop wood burner that would make a great conversion to an oil burner if i could do it.

I'm tired a payin all this money for oil just to give it away.

Most used motor oils are reused in ship engines that use Bunker Fuel.EPA wont let truck owners burn it,but Tugboats can.

A buddy of mine that has owns a tranny shop has a "regular" wood stove and mounted to the top about 4 ft above the stove a piece of 8" x prob 2 1/2' long piece of round pipe with the bottom capped and and a removable cap on the top then a piece of 1/4" copper tubing plumbed from the bottom of the pipe to the top of the stove with a valve in between to regulate flow into the stove the set up will hold prob about 4 or 5 gal at a time and not sure how long will take to burn it off but thats how he gets rid of his used oil. Sorry dont have pics of it but seems to work pretty good he has a 60x40 shop and that is what he heats the shop with during the winter. Just a thought

So he's just drippin the oil on the wood to burn then if I understand right. I know in the past I've soaked logs in oil when I wanted to make me last longer in the stove and it seems to work ok, just smokes like hell.

Wonder if they relabel some of it for heating oil for all the Easterners that burn the Heating oil/Kerosene/Diesel Fuel/Coal oil or whatever else they call it these days to use.

Speaking of used motor oils,I plan to purchase a heater for my house.
I will build a dog house large enough to hold it,and channel the hot air into my ductwork.Not legal in a home,no insurance.
I will then apply heater to fuel tank and lines(like a veggie conversion).The Heater is $2000.This would save me $150 a month for 6 months.

Years ago my Dad built a waste oil burner on his shop furnace. He took the burner out of a fuel oil furnace and changed the mister, hooked an air line that mixed high pressure air with the fuel mist and it burnt really well. A couple times a week he would have to clean the carbon build up off the ignitor. I currently use my used oil on chains like on my hay elevator or manure spreader web. I will dump a gallon on the entire manure spreader floor when I start hauling manure each day and will dump a gallon on and run the web empty when I park it for an extended period to keep the wood floor sealed. Also I will mix it with fuel oil for fire starter or take a quart bottle and throw it in my outdoor wood furnace when I got a good hot fire going.

Castrol is not recycled oil, It accually rates very close to Amzoil.I've been using Castrol for 35 years with very good results.

I used to burn mine in a Reznor heater until last summer I had a guy offer me 75¢ a gallon for it, now I just have him come once a month and suck our tank dry and use the money from it to run the natural gas furnace, its less BS:tu:

I made the mistake of tryin to blend it in with the diesel fuel salamander heater we use, BIG MISTAKE. I only mixed a gallon of filtered oil in with 15 gallons of diesel and it made one hell of a mess of the heater and fried the $50 igniter.

I'd be tickled pink for $.75 a gallon out of it, I got another 30 gallons waitin to go now.

We finally got around to hookin up a 10 Micron filter up to run the oil through and I'm burnin it in my old tractor using a 1 gal of oil to 10 gal of diesel mix. No smoke, no power loss and I'm usin the stuff instead of givin it away, I'm a happy camper.

Still not ready to dump it into the 24V yet.:humm::humm: