oil spillage mat

[nova_robotics]

Dammit. There's a new internet rabbit hole to go down. Waste motor oil into diesel.

Some mechanic shops have waste oil heaters around here. They heat their shops in the winter by burning used motor oil as fuel oil directly.

[Frank S]

Dammit. There's a new internet rabbit hole to go down. Waste motor oil into diesel.

Some mechanic shops have waste oil heaters around here. They heat their shops in the winter by burning used motor oil as fuel oil directly.

Back in the day when we changed the oil in our tractors or trucks we would simply pour it straight into the fuel tank Who cared if the old trucks smoke was a little blacker when pulling hard, 9 gallons of motor oil to 200 gallons of diesel didn't' seem to hurt anything, plus it cut down on having to dispose it.
But motor oils have so many additives in them today which trap the particulates, holding them in suspension then filtered out fairly well as long as the engine oil is at run temps the change intervals are greatly extended.
Bob regularly goes 25,000 miles between changes his engine has the equivalent of 1.8 million miles on it and has never had a bearing or piston and rings change done to it. However I had installed an OPS system on it when it only had 500,000 miles this 2 filter system in conjunction with the 2 primary filters and the centrifuge basically cleans the oil down to under 1 micron sized contaminants

[ranald]

Back in the day when we changed the oil in our tractors or trucks we would simply pour it straight into the fuel tank Who cared if the old trucks smoke was a little blacker when pulling hard, 9 gallons of motor oil to 200 gallons of diesel didn't' seem to hurt anything, plus it cut down on having to dispose it.
But motor oils have so many additives in them today which trap the particulates, holding them in suspension then filtered out fairly well as long as the engine oil is at run temps the change intervals are greatly extended.
Bob regularly goes 25,000 miles between changes his engine has the equivalent of 1.8 million miles on it and has never had a bearing or piston and rings change done to it. However I had installed an OPS system on it when it only had 500,000 miles this 2 filter system in conjunction with the 2 primary filters and the centrifuge basically cleans the oil down to under 1 micron sized contaminants

Back during the 70s and 80s, I regularly added outboard 2stroke fuel to my 5 litre V8s fuel/gas tank. They would run clean as a whistle and this avoided the 2stroke going off if I didn't run the boat for some months. A local chap on the Sunshine coast of Queensland was interviewed a couple of decades back as he was using used cooking oil (from takeaway fish and chip venues) , free to him as the vendors didn't have to pay for trade waste. He was driving upmarket Mercedes diesel vehicles.
cheers