From: J Travis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 08:23:04 PST
For the record, I wasn't talking at all about reusing it as crankcase
oil for the lubrication of the engine. I was talking about reusing used
COOKING oil as part of bio-diesel mix; nothing else.
Jay Travis
Ryan M Gill wrote:
> At 10:06 AM -0600 3/18/03, Mel Miller wrote:
>
>> Howdy Fred,
>>
>> For over at least forty years there have been bypass filters using
>> rolls of
>> toilet paper or paper towels to filter crankcase oil. If they are
>> correctly
>> engineered they work very well.
>
>
> One of the Chaps in the GAMVPA (really a Jeep club but what the hey)
> brought in the (certainly carcinogenic) remains of a WWII era Jeep's
> oil filter. It was rusted through, but had what appeared to be string
> and rags that had been packed into the casing.
>
>> I would not consider putting such oil back into an engine unless your
>> engine
>> uses a lot of oil and you have to constantly replenish. The trace
>> elements
>> of oil additives in the petroleum companies 'formula' for that oil
>> may have
>> been consumed. One way of determining whether or not you should reuse
>> the
>> oil for its intended purpose would be to send a used and new sample
>> of the
>> oil to an analysis company and ask them to see if the 'additive
>> package' is
>> still intact in the used sample.
>
>
> Plus the lubricating polymer chains are most certainly sheared to
> shorter and less lubricating lengths.
>
> Burning the filtered oil is probably not a bad way to get rid of it
> (it could have pollutants in it?) however, filtering it and putting it
> back into your engine isn't such a good idea.
>
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