Hi,
Ive got 25 gallons of oil and petrol (Mixed) that i need shot of. Anyone need it? If i cant get rid of it, ill have to take it to the tip in smaller
cans!
Pity you are too far away would have kept my lawn mower going for 50 years
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Originally posted by DRC INDY 7
Pity you are too far away would have kept my lawn mower going for 50 years
Ask at garages, our local uses their waste oil and any contaminated petrol or diesel in their oil burner, everything goes in it.
Huge fine if you get caught with it , get rid ASAP. IIRC the maximum you can store in anything else other than underground tanks is 2 gallons
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Originally posted by Peteff
Ask at garages, our local uses their waste oil and any contaminated petrol or diesel in their oil burner, everything goes in it.
Oh crap - sometimes I drive round in my tintop with 18 gallons in a funny thin walled tank under the car.
JC
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Originally posted by rusty nuts
Huge fine if you get caught with it , get rid ASAP. IIRC the maximum you can store in anything else other than underground tanks is 2 gallons
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Originally posted by SeaBass
Oh crap - sometimes I drive round in my tintop with 18 gallons in a funny thin walled tank under the car.
JC
And the 1928 Petroleum Regs states you must only store petrol in a metal, screw-topped vessel of no more than 2 gallons, red coloured and clearly
marked 'Petroleum Product-Flammable'.
So that's all plastic cans out, and also gerry cans............
I know the regs, but this is contaminated oil, not petrol. 
what ratio is the oil/petrol?
you reckon a series land rover could drive on that?
I can post on LR forum for ya.
U2U me.
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Originally posted by prawnabie
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Originally posted by SeaBass
Oh crap - sometimes I drive round in my tintop with 18 gallons in a funny thin walled tank under the car.
JC
Not many use there car for storing fuel for long periods though - apart from mikeR
Do you want me to post this on Land Rover forum?
Those peeps are tighter than a superglue ducks bottom and will try to run their land rovers on chip fat, soap and ground lice and I am pretty sure I
read the series 2 1/4 engine will run on low gade fuel, even paraffin.
hey mate, just an idea, what about the golf course in stevenage/aston , they use petrol 2 stroke golf buggies, they may take it of your hands, may even give you a $ or 2 for it?
Nice idea, ill give them a buzz. Thanks.
Soooo
Everyone with a petrol mower is illegal because they'll use a plastic can
Everyone on their way to a track day is illegal because they'll have three or four jerry cans.
Ditto most racer, sprinters and hillclimbers.
On your way to rescue a freind who's run out, straight to jail with your plastic can.
Most motor factors, jail, for 'dealing' jerry cans.
Phew, anybody left free(apart from the terrorists, rapists and murderers who don't drive)
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Originally posted by owelly
And the 1928 Petroleum Regs states you must only store petrol in a metal, screw-topped vessel of no more than 2 gallons, red coloured and clearly marked 'Petroleum Product-Flammable'.
So that's all plastic cans out, and also gerry cans............
I wouldn't put that in any internal combustion engine, it will be full of zinc and your injectors will be blocked up in next to no time, only fit for a boiler really and even then it will get crudded up.
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Originally posted by owelly
And the 1928 Petroleum Regs states you must only store petrol in a metal, screw-topped vessel of no more than 2 gallons, red coloured and clearly marked 'Petroleum Product-Flammable'.
So that's all plastic cans out, and also gerry cans............
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Originally posted by wilkingj
On the Jerry Can front, the MoD released 2 MILLION jerry cans on the secondhand market about 10 years ago. You could buy 5 for a tenner. They got rid of them as they didnt have a split pin to stop the lid from being easily opened if it caught on something.
Why are people so concerned about how much of this you can store when it is just going to wreck your engine??!!
It is only really fit for industrial use e.g. in a furnace and in that case there are no limits on how many 200 litre drums you store as long as it is
kept outside. Inside a building you can still store up to about 2000 litres...
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Originally posted by R1minimagic
Why are people so concerned about how much of this you can store when it is just going to wreck your engine??!!
It is only really fit for industrial use e.g. in a furnace and in that case there are no limits on how many 200 litre drums you store as long as it is kept outside. Inside a building you can still store up to about 2000 litres...
Why dont you just leave it outside somewhere safe with the lid off and it will evaporate!!
Then you will just be left with the oil (and maybe some rain water at the bottom)!
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Originally posted by R1minimagic
Why dont you just leave it outside somewhere safe with the lid off and it will evaporate!!
Then you will just be left with the oil (and maybe some rain water at the bottom)!
Glad to be of assistance
"I went down, down, down and the flames, they rose higher"
Now retiring to a safe distance.......
[Edited on 14/11/09 by Confused but excited.]