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I'm beginning to wonder if you have some sort of 'auto complete' set up for forum responses? There seems to be a conflagration theme to your replies.fire
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I agree at least in Bedford the council ‘Tidy Tip’ takes waste oil, but disposing of aggressive/unpleasant chemicals you’re in a bit of a bind.
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I'm beginning to wonder if you have some sort of 'auto complete' set up for forum responses? There seems to be a conflagration theme to your replies.
You can solve anything with fire and violence, an old scrap man told me years ago.
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Thinking back I remember when I was an apprentice, (1960’s) someone cleaned a two stroke cylinder head with carbon tetra chloride from a fire extinguisher.
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You can solve anything with fire and violence, an old scrap man told me years ago.
"If it's too close to blow up and you can't go round it, over it or through it. BURN IT!" It was a saying he apparently thought was universally relevant.
I'm not sure he fully understood just how utterly insane he looked as he said it. No one told him.
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CARBON REMOVER 25 LTR - Wilhelmsen
Unitor™ Carbon Remover™ is a heavy duty solvent based cleaner ideal for removal of stubborn carbon deposits.
www.wilhelmsen.com
We always use to use this for stuff like that on the ships modern stuff is a bit crap and had to be used neat to be effective but the old stuff was a killer.
Sure there would be a shore side alternative some where. Other than that leave it to soak in diesel or petrol for a day or two that should do the trick.
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Well I haven’t finished yet once thoroughly soaked you then set fire to it.
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Couple of well know cruise companies liked to set fire to their boilers on a regular basis to clean them while passengers are asleep at night got out of hand more than ounce.Though you can manage without that Normally though granted is the quickest way. Aviation Kerro always seemed to work the best but getting it is the issue, for cleaning without a small mushroom cloud that is.
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I used to know loads of people like that. Dying breed now, in clown world.
Anyway….. Disposal. Without fire.
How much do you think you’ll get through and what’s it like to reuse? If you got a lidded tank of ‘whatever’ and replaced the lid after use I think you’d lose more to evaporation than needing to get rid? Just top up with neat stuff as and when.
I put my old oil to a guy who heats his workshop with it. Other stuff I put in a 20l drum and put in the waste oil at the household waste place.
It’s not much to be fair. It’s mainly rags that cause me issues then I recycle them in house to their carbon constituent.
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Interesting, a mix of Xylene and Dichlorotoluene.CARBON REMOVER 25 LTR - Wilhelmsen
Unitor™ Carbon Remover™ is a heavy duty solvent based cleaner ideal for removal of stubborn carbon deposits.
We always use to use this for stuff like that on the ships modern stuff is a bit crap and had to be used neat to be effective but the old stuff was a killer.
Sure there would be a shore side alternative some where. Other than that leave it to soak in diesel or petrol for a day or two that should do the trick.
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I keep looking out for old cans of stuff like that at the boot fair. It's rare to find anything 'useful' but sometimes you do.
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There are a range of issues with chemicals from insurance to the terms of the lease with the council. None of them prohibit their use, but it's just hassle avoidance if they're not used beyond a small tin. Basic off the shelf easily available stuff is OK, so I prefer not to go beyond that. Caustic soda on a one off/irregular basis would be OK too as it can go down the drain every once in a while.
Old engine oil and stale fuel is a bigger issue, even though I am right next to the recycling centre. You can't walk in, and if you have a van you have to book it in as commercial waste and pay but they don't accept oil as commercial waste. You can go in a car with waste oil with a booking (everyone has to book online) but that would mean using the wife's car to transport waste oil. A disaster/divorce waiting to happen.
The council seem incapable of making the connection between very restrictive waste disposal rules and entry requirements and the increase in fly tipping or people just pouring chemicals down drains. They'd rather prevent proper disposal and then pay clean up crews to run around clearing laybys and the like.
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Tossers.There are a range of issues with chemicals from insurance to the terms of the lease with the council. None of them prohibit their use, but it's just hassle avoidance if they're not used beyond a small tin. Basic off the shelf easily available stuff is OK, so I prefer not to go beyond that. Caustic soda on a one off/irregular basis would be OK too as it can go down the drain every once in a while.
Old engine oil and stale fuel is a bigger issue, even though I am right next to the recycling centre. You can't walk in, and if you have a van you have to book it in as commercial waste and pay but they don't accept oil as commercial waste. You can go in a car with waste oil with a booking (everyone has to book online) but that would mean using the wife's car to transport waste oil. A disaster/divorce waiting to happen.
The council seem incapable of making the connection between very restrictive waste disposal rules and entry requirements and the increase in fly tipping or people just pouring chemicals down drains. They'd rather prevent proper disposal and then pay clean up crews to run around clearing laybys and the like.
Where I used to live it got stupid with fly tipping. Then there was a Taskforce headed my an MP who spent a huge amount of money to find that there was a direct correlation between restrictive policies at the dump and flytipping!
We are lucky up here. Most folk behave but more importantly it’s a council tip. Which means there is no third party service provider to argue the toss about it being the wrong sort of bricks.
Is there a garage nearby you can come to a deal with? Put your oil in with his? It’ll benefit you both because they normally pay per litre, less the more there is.
Understand about the chemicals. Not sure where to go with it.
Maybe a dedicated parts cleaner? They’re cheap enough, got fireproof lid, approved appliance etc etc?
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I have a small parts cleaner, and that's fine with the Screwfix stuff, as is the ultrasonic tank. As there's only ever 5 l of the cleaner in each (diluted in the ultrasonic) and it lasts a while it's OK for the drain being soluble.
Good shout on the oil, there are a few small garages about so I can ask.
As with so many things it's only a problem for those who try to act responsibly. The dodgy tossers don't give a monkey's and just tip/dump/pour whatever they have wherever they want.
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This just emphasis problem with disposing of all waste and recycling. As I said previously in Bedford no booking for waste oil, providing you go to the tip by car. You can take a trailer but that has to be pre-booked and can only be 1.4 x 2m I think. My trailer is too big. This also hangs over to general re-cycling with all councils having different policies . It seems a pity that there isn’t a national scheme.
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Talking of fly tipping, this was dumped completley blocking the lane a friend lives in.
To make matters worse, when a car stopped at it later that night a couple of lads appeared and took the car at knife point.
To make matters worse, when a car stopped at it later that night a couple of lads appeared and took the car at knife point.
Some of our pumping stations out in the wilds regularly get a transit sized load of semi green hedge, usually burnt next day...
