From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 11:33:24 PST
This has always made me wonder about the 'scented' toilet paper. Would
it make the exhault from the biodiesel smell like a bouquet of roses
or potpourri? Or would it have the same effect on odors as it does on
the 'exhaust' emitted in ye olde home library?
Fred Martin wrote:
>
> Guys, I think your right on not using the oil in the engine after
> filtering with the toilet paper filtration system. Wouldn't there be
> chemicals leaching out of the paper too? Fred Martin
>
> 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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