Used oil storage

[nate379]

No one takes oil around here. None of the auto parts stores, not Walmart, etc. I was giving it to a friend that heats with it, but he ran out of room for storaging more, has a few thousand gals I guess.

 

[scott37300]

No one takes oil around here. None of the auto parts stores, not Walmart, etc. I was giving it to a friend that heats with it, but he ran out of room for storaging more, has a few thousand gals I guess.

I guess alaska has enough new oil they don't want any of that used stuff? I thought it was a federal law that stores had to take used oil?

 

[chrisziem]

That funnel will flop over and screw you if you don't watch it. However, my problem might be that I'm usually draining three gallons at a time out of a big pan so I'm dumping more weight in oil than it wants to handle. I have a bunch of junk piled up so there are usually leaves under stuff, I rake up a pile of leaves and set the bucket in the middle of the pile. Any spillage is soaked up by the leaves and then it gets raked into the burn pile.

I just put the used oil in a 55 gallon drum, throw in a road flare and roast marshmallows over the fire!

 

[fflintstone]

I am using the same 6 gallon metal cans I got from work 30 years ago. They used to hold ammonia for a blueprint machine.

 

[Stephenw]

Split spouts...

 

[mikeceli]

It's a 40 mile round trip for me to the nearest recycling center so I don't bother wasting the fuel to go there. I just dump it a gallon or two at a time into the fuel tank on my old F350 diesel pickup. It loves the stuff and it's worth 4 bucks a gallon as fuel now.

I agree.


I'm close to the dump, but MY 1986 F250 6.9 diesel, loves a gallon or two, in the fuel tank.

 

[Sureshot]

I built something similar but with a 20 gallon plastic barrel chain came in. Dumping it was always such a mess and hassle so I got the brainwave to use an automotive oil pump driven by a drill. It works awesome and will also **** the oil out of smaller containers used for bikes etc. I will try to get some pics. Of course I thought of the pics part after I did a test run and it was all oily.

 

[chrommagman]

I got the brainwave to use an automotive oil pump driven by a drill. It works awesome and will also **** the oil out of smaller containers used for bikes etc.

Sound awesome

 

[nate379]

Ah. I leave that pushed in. To dump it I pull the lid off.

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