Oil filter

luvrbus · January 02, 2018, 11:53:33 AM

You can store used oil in a 55 gal drum but it has to labeled as Used Oil with the hazardous waste sign if stored out side it has to be in a rack cannot be on the ground and requires a overflow pan under it and a drum cover to prevent water from entering the drum lol they don't trust the barrel plugs.
EPA has some screwy rules pertaining to used oil, it is a real PITA so is their antifreeze bs.Being in CA who knows what screwy laws they have pertaining to used oil storage they may want the drum encased in concrete

eagle19952 · January 02, 2018, 03:48:09 PM

Quote from: luvrbus on January 02, 2018, 11:53:33 AM
You can store used oil in a 55 gal drum but it has to labeled as Used Oil with the hazardous waste sign if stored out side it has to be in a rack cannot be on the ground and requires a overflow pan under it and a drum cover to prevent water from entering the drum lol they don't trust the barrel plugs.
EPA has some screwy rules pertaining to used oil, it is a real PITA so is their antifreeze bs.Being in CA who knows what screwy laws they have pertaining to used oil storage they may want the drum encased in concrete

We sold oil (a jobber) and we leased waste oil furnaces...so we burned our own oil. we just leased it to you..sorta.
A lot of places you can't "collect" used oil to burn, only burn your own...

and now days a lot of muni contracts say they have to use a % of recycled oil...

back when oil changes were done in a ditch in the pit and then fed into the asphalt plant...
and the shop drains were injected into the turbine exhaust...or fed into the crude pipeline..

i think 45 is going to bring those days back..

deregulation

lostagain · January 02, 2018, 04:25:37 PM

I burn my own used motor oil in the wood stove in my shop. Drips from a barrel above the stove. Good way to get rid of it. It is less of a carbon foot print than driving it to the collection place, where it gets driven again to the recyclers, etc.

JC

Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM · January 02, 2018, 04:36:11 PM

Good point JC. They sure do waste a lot of oil driving that old oil to recycling centers.

We used our old oil and old tires on the farm when I was when I was growing up in NH to start brush fires on rainy days and in the snow as we were always clearing land. We also burned all of our trash in a burn barrel so nothing went to waste. Not sure that is even legal now.

eagle19952 · January 02, 2018, 05:47:41 PM

Quote from: Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM on January 02, 2018, 04:36:11 PM
Good point JC. They sure do waste a lot of oil driving that old oil to recycling centers.

We used our old oil and old tires on the farm when I was when I was growing up in NH to start brush fires on rainy days and in the snow as we were always clearing land. We also burned all of our trash in a burn barrel so nothing went to waste. Not sure that is even legal now.

we used a lot for chainsaw bar oil.
i grew up in S. central NH.

DoubleEagle · January 03, 2018, 06:54:07 AM

I used old oil for an older bulldozer hydraulic system in Northern New Hampshire. Looks like everyone who used to live in New Hampshire was a frugal Yankee.

Dave5Cs · January 03, 2018, 07:43:20 AM

Oh the pollution Police are on the way. In California they drive the oil with Prius trucks and sometimes hand carry it on their heads in a basket to dump it into a pile of feathers that are dried and shipped to Arizona to make pillows.

luvrbus · January 03, 2018, 08:02:27 AM

Dave, how in the world do you keep up with all the new laws passed in CA,living so close I try too because I don't want any crap going from AZ to CA daily, it's stupid a law that prevents people from buying ammo on line so they have to pay retail prices.lol now you are going to need to change the lights in your bus by 2020

edvanland · January 03, 2018, 08:54:28 AM

I used to spread the used oil on the dirt road in front of my house. If you remember they used to spray used oil on dirt roads to hold down the dust. And to think all I ask to start with was can you change the oil filter without draining the oil.

luvrbus · January 03, 2018, 10:16:55 AM

Quote from: edvanland on January 03, 2018, 08:54:28 AM
I used to spread the used oil on the dirt road in front of my house. If you remember they used to spray used oil on dirt roads to hold down the dust. And to think all I ask to start with was can you change the oil filter without draining the oil.

Not only did you get the answer now you know how to handle the old oil according to the EPA ,lol disposing of the old filter wasn't covered care to tell us what you did with it ED

edvanland · January 03, 2018, 10:45:24 AM

Filed it under file #13 now in the dump. I did drain the oil out of it first

Dave5Cs · January 03, 2018, 05:01:19 PM

Quote from: luvrbus on January 03, 2018, 08:02:27 AM
Dave, how in the world do you keep up with all the new laws passed in CA,living so close I try too because I don't want any crap going from AZ to CA daily, it's stupid a law that prevents people from buying ammo on line so they have to pay retail prices.lol now you are going to need to change the lights in your bus by 2020

Clifford, Learned a long time ago to not pay attention to the new laws, LOL There are only a few new ones this year. You have to remember Governor Med-Fly will be out of office soon and then maybe we can get past his high speed train that ain't gonna happen (Legacy) and all the laws he made could be reversed if the people here would just stop voting for the same old people and get some conservative people in there that would do something. California is a great place to live as far as the sites and rivers, the mountains, the snow, the ocean, the food, entertainment and the arts. The Government here not so much...And as usual they are raising the Vehicle registration tax this year to a starting fee per vehical $25.00 to 175.00 depending on its age, so they can cover all their little programs. We already have the highest taxes and now they stab us with more.
That is also why we live in West Roseville and not San Francisco, Home of the Bleeding Hearts,

Geoff · January 03, 2018, 06:14:26 PM

I can fill the missing answer of what the EPA wants you to do with your used oil filters. You are supposed to let them drain for 24 hours, then crush them to get the remaining oil out of them. After that, you are allowed to put them in the trash. I have a oil filter crusher in my shop that cost about $5,000 new, it is rated at 24,000 tons., and is big enough for truck and bus oil filters.

chessie4905 · January 04, 2018, 03:53:10 AM

My oil filters make a trip through the coal furnace, then to trash or scrap barrel

edvanland · January 04, 2018, 08:55:16 AM

Remember I have seen your oil filter crusher. I does a great job on 8 or 10 beer cans at a time.