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Title: Uses for used motor oil? Post by stewmills on 11/18/15 at 13:21:53 What are good uses for used motor and transmission fluids? I occasionally have some and with a little property and things to do I am sure there are things to use it for versus taking it to recycle. I have thought about using it for chainsaw bar chain oil, but not sure if it's thick enough? What are some other good ideas, aside from greasing a 50' telephone pole with a $100 bill on top? |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by verslagen1 on 11/18/15 at 13:30:09 Makes good cutting oil and tranny oil is good for penetration oil. but I still make 100 times what I need. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Dave on 11/18/15 at 13:42:38 I used to spend a lot of time on chainsaw forums....and a few folks used old motor oil for bar/chain oil. However.....it doesn't have anything in it to make it tacky and it flies off the chain fast and you have to crank up the pump volume to keep the chain properly oiled (most modern chains are designed to be really thrifty wit the bar oil so that they are good for the environment). It also turns your saw into a horrible black mess.....no way I want to use it in my saws. I do use some of the oil on the wooden floor of my wood shed - the boards are soft pine and it is not painted or treated with anything, so I keep the boards well lubed with used oil. Not so much that the boards are slick - but enough so the water beads up. I have also soaked the bottom of my locust posts in the used oil before I put them in the ground. I take extra used oil to a neighbor that has a waste oil heater in his shop, and he uses it for heat. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Ed L. on 11/18/15 at 15:45:35 Can't do much with it, too dirty for chain saw bars. I keep a gallon around in case I need to heat treat a knife blade, the rest gets taken over to Pep Boys for recycling. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Serowbot on 11/18/15 at 16:15:11 Thanksgiving is coming up,... how do cook your turkey?... ;D... |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Kris01 on 11/18/15 at 17:45:48 I've heard of an old trick where you pour some sand or sawdust in a barrel, add some used oil and then push your shovels, rakes, whatever into it over the winter to keep them from rusting. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by engineer on 11/18/15 at 17:53:43 When I was a kid (a very long time ago) my neighbor periodically sprayed it under his cars and trucks and also removed the body plugs and poured it into the doors, rocker panels etc. He said it was great rust proofing and I think he was right. Today I save it for a friend who heats his pole barn with waste oil. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by justin_o_guy2 on 11/18/15 at 17:55:52 Get a quart of acetone and use it with the transmission fluid as petrenating loi? |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Kris01 on 11/18/15 at 17:58:43 I knew a guy that used to wipe the woodgrain on his woody with transmission oil. That didn't sound right! ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by jcstokes on 11/18/15 at 18:09:14 If your property is rural you can paint it on fence posts as a preservative. Don't do this if you have painted the posts white. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by MnSpring on 11/18/15 at 18:18:29 First as Dave said, Used oil, (I sometimes mixed with a little Kerosene, or Fuel oil), spread out over the floor boards of the 2 wood floor trailers in the fall. Also the wood handles on the rakes/hoes/shovels, in the fall, before they are put away for the winter. Also, of the, ’top’ of the, flat topped’, posts, (which were in before I got here), (I was always taught that ANY, fence post should be rounded, or cut at a angle on top, to make the rain/snow, run off rather than soak in.) Also, have a area, I park, trailers and etc on. Use a old garden watering can, and, sprinkle the oil over that area, (no weeds/grass grow) Around, next to, buildings, (no weeds). Pour against fence posts, the side, so it soak in the wood, and slowly moves down the post. Used to be a fellow, at a, little lake cabin the family had when I was a child. He would sprinkle, the used oil on the gravel driveway, kept the dust down. After many years, it was as solid as a black top, (tar road). Don’t use it in the chain saw oilier, it just does NOT work as well as the, ‘Bar Oil’, specifically designed to NOT, throw off, at high speed. BUT, I do, use it on the ‘beam’, of the splitter. Have a old paint brush, and, ‘paint’, it on all exposed surfaces, where the real paint has rubbed off. It retards the rusting of those surfaces. After every time I use the hydrolic splitter. Or, take it to a place, that burns oil for heat, they will be glad to take it for free. And check into, some States, anyplace, that Sells New oil, MUST, take, Used oil, in at NO Charge Now, putting used oil on the ground, according to some in the guberment, is bad. But after the, Guberment, ’spilled’, MILLIONS of gallons, of VERY toxic water into a river, which for 100’s of miles has effected, (KILLED), All Wildlife, (Fish/Fowl/Hoved), and Domestic animals, and the drinking water of 100’s of Thousands of people, and said: "No Problem”. I don’t think they would have much to say, about a gallon or so, on the ground, to kill weeds. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by jcstokes on 11/18/15 at 23:29:45 Don't use used oil to kill weeds, try used ethylene glycol coolant from radiators and so on. Kills most known life forms, animal, vegetable, worms, humans. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Kris01 on 11/19/15 at 17:42:55 Like JC said, animals love it. Be careful around ones you want to keep! ;) |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Steve H on 11/19/15 at 17:46:17 Somebody somewhere tested at some point and said that the ground can absorb 1 quart per square foot per year of oil. In large, continuous use, it will evenutally seep into ground water. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Art Webb on 11/19/15 at 20:46:35 0A0313140F0B0513600 wrote:
ethylene glycol coolant is history, at least in my state, it's been replaced by the new non toxic stuff I saw a cat die from it once, it was horrible, please, if you want to kill a critter, just shoot it or something, there's a difference between pragmatism and cruelty |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by prechermike on 11/23/15 at 04:47:01 48716A703332030 wrote:
I keep a quart or so around for this, just use an old paintbrush to coat the metal of the tools every time I use them. Keeps them nice and shiny. I think the sand was to clean them as well, but I wash them off and when they dry oil them. I do have a trailer with a wood floor that, that's about to get treated. Thanks for that tip. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by gizzo on 11/23/15 at 21:59:56 When I worked in a country garage we'd save it and dump it on the local dirt circuit track where I raced to keep the dust down. When I moved to the city I'd put the used oil in my V Dub Beetle where it would "go away" so to speak. My local council takes it for free for recycling, so that's where it goes now. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Kris01 on 11/24/15 at 16:54:09 2F353133320C3D2E282E35383B395C0 wrote:
My wife had a Saturn like that once. It burned as much oil as it did gas. |
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Title: Re: Uses for used motor oil? Post by Art Webb on 11/24/15 at 19:34:25 My Old 72 Cutlass burned a quart fo every tank, I just changed the filter every 3000 and added as needed |
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