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Tom-D

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What becomes of the oil you drain when doing your oil changes?
 
Around here many shops burn it for heat in the winter.
 
My shop also burns it for heat in the winter.
 
GlennAB1 said:
AutoZone.
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Careful. Most of the auto oil recyclers do not want oil that's been in a leaded-fuel engine. Yeah, they don't ask, but it's not nice to pollute their supply.
 
flyingron said:
Careful. Most of the auto oil recyclers do not want oil that's been in a leaded-fuel engine. Yeah, they don't ask, but it's not nice to pollute their supply.
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Well there are plenty of other bad contaminants in the used oil from cars like other metals besides lead so I seriously doubt this is an issue. The refining process takes those contaminants into account.

Besides the proportion of aviation oil in an AutoZone reservoir is so tiny the proportion of lead must be minute.
 
One could filter it down to 1 micron, blend it with diesel or old gasoline (like from a boat that has set for a year), and burn it in your pre-DPF diesel truck...
 
I just pour it down the storm drain. Isn't that what you're supposed to do? Sometimes I use it to kill weeds around the house.
 
It can get recycled into fuel oil or re-refined into new lubricating oil.
I would suggest talking to your local A&P if you want to know where the oil from your aircraft is sent.
 
Used oil tank at a local Wal-Mart, O'Reilly or a repair shop on my way home from the airport. I don't burn much avgas, and no one has ever asked about leaded gas nor have I ever seen any indications they won't take certain types of oil.
 
Same here. There are labeled collections barrels near the hangars.
 
Mike Smith said:
I just pour it down the storm drain. Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
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Yeah, me too. It gets to the ocean that way, right? It lubricates all the plankton so whales can swallow it easier. I mean, where do you think whale oil comes from? It's the circle of life. :D

Nah, we've got a huge collection tank at the airport for that. It makes it so convenient to change my car's oil there too.
 
I pour it back on the ground as that is where it came from, right? You guys pouring down the storm drains are just asking for trouble.
 
County landfill takes it around here, along with various other hazmats.
 
I have a Jurassic Park truck come by every 6 months or so. They recycle it but they won't tell me how.
 
Getonit said:
You guys pouring down the storm drains are just asking for trouble.
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I don't think so, smarty pants. Never heard of offshore oil rigs? It helps their yield when you send it to them via storm drains, sewers, or heck send it to them by just dumping it right on the shoreline.
Exxon Valdez anyone? Helloo! Yep, offshore rig productivity in the area skyrocketed right after that. Deepwater Horizon? A bonanza for Gulf rigs.
 
Nothing at the airports.
TxDOT often has depots in local towns but when they are full it can take months for them to be emptied. (and the spillage around them is worthy of Superfund support)
When they are full, I store in bleach jugs til they are back in service. Other people, afraid to think of what they might be doing with it but at least so far, my well water is still not flammable.
 
Checkout_my_Six said:
Tom....don't yuz guyz have recycling in your neck of the woods? :D
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Actually my city recycle guy picks mine up at the curb along with the paper waste and garbage but it must be in sealed containers.
 
I knew an old hardware store that collected it and spread it on their gravel parking lot to keep dust down, back in the '70's, '80's, and '90's.
 
flyingron said:
Careful. Most of the auto oil recyclers do not want oil that's been in a leaded-fuel engine. Yeah, they don't ask, but it's not nice to pollute their supply.
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I see the same truck extracting the oil from auto Zone's tank as I do from the airport's tank. the truck dumps it back to the refineries. and gets $.25 per gallon for it.
 
unsafervguy said:
i go around town and pour it under every prius i can find.......

bob
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Way back when I was single and running wild in San Diego, I'd do that to Harley Riders. squirt an inch puddle under their bikes. then set back and watch them try to find the leak.
 
I'm all honesty, I run it in my 1975 mini trail bike's transmission.
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weirdjim said:
They do NOT leak. They are merely marking their territory.

Jim
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Specially the ones with external chain oilers.
Like my Knuckle head.
 

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Tom-D said:
Way back when I was single and running wild in San Diego, I'd do that to Harley Riders. squirt an inch puddle under their bikes. then set back and watch them try to find the leak.
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LOL. We used to put rice under the crotch rockets
 
Airport maintains used oil collection drum next to the fuel station. What they do with it I know not.
 
I read that chain-saw oil is a product made from used motor oil.

I wonder how they make it safe -- the combustion products in used motor oil are carcinogens, aren't they?
 
Tom-D said:
Actually my city recycle guy picks mine up at the curb along with the paper waste and garbage but it must be in sealed containers.
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This. My A&P has a waste collection drum when he does it. When I have oil myself, just set it on the curb in one-gallon containers that the city provides. They also provide a special zip-lock bag for the oil filter (or oil filter remains, if you've cut it open). They take it and leave empty containers and bags.
 
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