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waste oil
proper disposal circa 1963
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Yea sorry to say I did that.
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'68 GTO '69 Corvette '75 Cadillac Coupe Deville TOM |
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Still works today!
Seriously though, how times do change. |
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Growing up, the road beside our house was dirt and gravel. I remember my dad, and other guys from the neighborhood, with a drum of waste oil in the back of a pickup, oiling the road to keep down the dust.
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Well ... the oil did come out of the ground in the first place.
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The dust would blow from our side road also, My Dad rigged up a valve and pipes, (like 3 inch steel pipes). Put it in the back of his 66 Chevy pickup. had one of his teenage gas station employees help him. It did work... The EPA would poop a green twinkie if you did this today....Isn't this nearly what asphalt is?
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1977 Black Trans Am 180 HP Auto, essentially base model T/A. I'm the original owner, purchased May 7, 1977. Shut it off Shut it off Buddy, I just shut your Prius down... |
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When I was a kid if you changed your oil in your driveway or on the street you would just walk to the nearest street corner and pour the used oil down the sewer. Every ten years or so the city would come around with trucks that had these buckets that they would use to scoop out the debris from the sewers. You would think they struck oil with the amounts that would come out. Today you would be in BIG trouble if you got caught doing that.
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Trying to be environmentally conscientious I took my used oil to one of the oil change places for them to combine with their used oil. Just as I was leaving I saw the employee (maybe manager) taking my jugs out back and tossing them in a garbage bin.
Also with the recycling craze I saw that the plastic oil containers are a #1 recyclable plastic. Taking many to the local recycle area, the attendant would not let me 'recylcle' them. Same with #1 soap/detergent bottles. All because the containers held and still may have some hazardous materials in them. I looked him in the eyes and said 'Fine, then into the ground with regular waste they go'.
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No wonder the water out of my sand point well tastes funny.
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71' GTO -original 400/4-speed/3.23 posi 13.95 @ 102.1 on street tires @ 4055lbs. ‘63 LeMans- ‘69 400 w/ original transaxle. 2.69 gears. |
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When I was in high school, I had this conversation with a friend:
Him: what do you do with your used motor oil? Me: pour it into the bottles the new motor oil came in, then throw them in the trash. Him: that’s a jerk move. Me: oh yeah? What do you do with it? Him: I pour it down the storm drain. That must have been pretty common, because about 30 years ago, they painted “no dumping - drains to ocean” on every storm drain in Orange County. Although that oil in the grass is nothing compared to the “extra chemicals” spot behind my grandfathers garage. We weren’t allowed back there on account of all the lead paint, DDT, etc he started dumping there in the ‘40s.
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1965 Pontiac LeMans. M21, 3.73 in a 12 bolt, Kauffman 461. |
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Now we our small, think about rail road locomotives. I read they would dump it beside the tracks in certain locations. We use to get local gas station to change our oil. I remember one of the older stations out in back was dirt that was black and slimy!
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Every oil change my grandfather would paint the shed. Needless to say it’s still standing, just don’t light a match..........
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Guilty also, we had a “dark spot” on the ground behind the garage. We would just pour in in and it would soak into the ground. Today I return all mine to local O’Reillys store......but they won’t take the jug.
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Reminds me of a trip I took in what was East Germany around 1991, every small town that had a river running near or thru it had an odd concrete structure with 2 overhangs jutting out over the river, it had a small platform under it with the center cut out with a clear drop to the river.
I was told that was were the locals changed the oil on their Trabant's! Just drained it into the river. Government sponsered!
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Jeff R 60 Jaguar Mark 2, 3.8L Automatic 67 Sprint Firebird 230 OHC-6 4-Speed A/C 78 Catlina Safari, Pontiac 400 powered 77 Astre Formula, 215 Buick V-8 T-5 73 Lemans Safari, 400 4bbl 4-speed 71 Catalina Enforcer, 455 4bbl 06 Mallet Solstice #024 LS2, Now with a Tremec 6060 6-speed! 2012 F-150 Echo Boost (My local Ford Dealer SUX!!!) 2020 Dodge Charger Scat pack (recovered) |
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Our back yard was along a cow and horse pasture.
Remember my dad used it for weed control along fence line. Would get those huge burr and jimson weeds.
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as wood cutting time approches i save it to put in my chain saws for chain lube
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I recall used oil fired space heaters for the garage.
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The Honda/Yamaha dealer in town has an oil furnace in their shop.
Sign out front "USED OIL ACCEPTED HERE." I took him 5 gallons once, had to stand on a ladder to pour it in the tank. Brought my bucket back home.
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3 Generations of "Beach Boys Racing" ! Everybody knows somthin. Nobody knows everything ! 1st time on a dragstrip, 1964. Flagstart ! "Thanks for the entertainment." "Real Indians Don't Wear Bowties" |
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Yeah I remember those days of washing parts with gas, that and used oil would be dumped in the alley.
I have two old fuel oil tanks that stores the waste oil we generate. Every fall one of my customers comes by to pump 'em out for use in his garage's waste oil heater.
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Monty Frerichs B&M Machine Box Elder SD |
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