1963 used engine oil disposal article - photo

**marksbug** · Jan 31, 2021, 04:28 PM

when we used to go camping we always came back with a load after hikes. sometimes big but mostly not a lot. Some people do not care weather they live in a rat infested **** hole or not and dont care weather any body else does either. I've see this all over the world in my travels.it isant limited to any paticular culture or nation.

**Hoosiersmoker** · Feb 1, 2021, 05:49 AM

"It is crazy some of the things we used to do to get rid of things we no longer want. How many remember bathroom wall cabinet with the razor blade disposal slot in the back? "

My first house (built in '27) had an old medicine cabinet with one of those. It also had two 24" fluorescent lamps, one on each side and it was chrome and white steel. It was beautiful but getting a pretty pitted and faded. We thought about restoring it and going retro with the whole bathroom but couldn't find enough stuff at the time to pull it off. I remember tearing out that wall to replace the do-it-yourself plastering job and finding a 2 pound slug of old, rusty razor blades and an old, empty Prince Albert tobacco can! Turned out both were worthless, but interesting.

**Imabass** · Feb 3, 2021, 01:29 PM

My grandpa used this method sometimes. I remember as a kid (early 80's) helping my grandpa change the oil and he had me go pour out the old oil on the big pile of rocks. Hindsight today, that spot he poured it out was only 100' or so from his well.

He also reused the oil as chainsaw bar oil and lubrication on various old farm equipment.

**Duke_of_URL** · Jul 12, 2024, 08:06 AM

Nothing like putting it back where it came from!

Sadly in this country there aren't hydrocarbon conversion plants using the Fischer-Tropsch process on large scale, as South Africa developed (http://sasol.com) when the world boycotted S.A. under Apartheid.