Posted by Calgary (Don) on May 29, 2011, 11:12 am
Let me be clear this is not a question of synth versus dyno. I am not
interested in a discussion about oil weights and temperature. All I
would like to know is how best to deal with cruddy used oil.
Given the recent monsoons and seeing as the closing of the main bridge
cut me off from the town and the liquor store I decided to use the
weekend for bike maintenance. Having a clean garage sure makes the
chores easier. Next on my shopping list is a bike lift.
For the first time since I bought the Road King I stripped it down and
gave it a good cleaning. Damn there was a lot of road grime tucked into
all the nooks and crannies. For now the bike sparkles like it did on
the showroom floor. OK, not quite. It is starting to show the miles
with the usual wear and tear stuff. A few rock chips, light scratching
of the paint and chrome where my riding gear rubs against the finished
surfaces and bug guts left too long on the windshield and now appear to
be etched into the surface. But it still looks damn good.
I have greased and lubed almost every moving part. Fluids have all been
changed, pressures have all been checked and adjusted. The air filter
has been cleaned and oiled and all of the nuts and bolts have been
re-torqued. Nice to have a Harley shop manual and a decent torque wrench.
Considering the rain has moved on and the sky is now clear, I have one
more chore to do before I can go for a ride. Clean up the mess!
I am very careful about recycling and not dumping hazardous materials in
the landfill. I have collected and separated the oil containers and old
filters. They will be dumped accordingly. The old oil has been captured
in one of those oil tray/container gizmos. The best part is I did all
of this without spilling oil on the concrete floor.
All that is good. My question is how do you guys clean up the containers
used to collect the oil. I use a pan and the above mentioned
tray/container gizmo. The collecting surfaces of both are covered with a
thin layer of oil. When I had the bike shed I didn't worry about
cleaning the pan/tray. They could just air out in my naturally well
ventilated bike shed. My sense is a similar system in the attached
garage will not be quite as convenient. I would rather not live with
the odour of old oil.
Right now the pan/tray are drip drying on some newspaper and once the
residual oil has drained I will seal the pan/tray in a garbage bag until
the next time I need them.
If there is a better system, please let me know.
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Posted by gus on May 29, 2011, 12:16 pm
wrote:
> If there is a better system, please let me know.
Check provincial laws for prohibitions against collecting minerals,
and, if it's not prohibited upon pain of fine and/or imprisonment, go
out to the closest riverbed and collect almost, but not quite, a full
bucket of fine dry silt.
Go home and scour your oil collecting pans with the dry silt.
Return the silt to the bucket and seal the bucket.
You can use the same oil contaminated silt for several scourings of
your oil pans.
When your municipality has a hazardous waste collection day, turn in
the bucket of contaminated silt.
They will know what to do with contaminated soil, they do it all the
time...
Posted by Calgary (Don) on May 29, 2011, 1:22 pm
On 29/05/2011 10:16 AM, gus wrote:
> wrote:
>> If there is a better system, please let me know.
> Check provincial laws for prohibitions against collecting minerals,
> and, if it's not prohibited upon pain of fine and/or imprisonment, go
> out to the closest riverbed and collect almost, but not quite, a full
> bucket of fine dry silt.
> Go home and scour your oil collecting pans with the dry silt.
> Return the silt to the bucket and seal the bucket.
> You can use the same oil contaminated silt for several scourings of
> your oil pans.
> When your municipality has a hazardous waste collection day, turn in
> the bucket of contaminated silt.
> They will know what to do with contaminated soil, they do it all the
> time...
That is actually not a bad idea. I happen to know a place where I can
get approximately 3000 m3 of claystone material dredged up from the
B-horizon of the Bow River basin. I will probably not need that much..-)
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Posted by J. Clarke on May 29, 2011, 7:46 pm
actual.rider***r@telus.net says...
>
> On 29/05/2011 10:16 AM, gus wrote:
> > wrote:
> >
> >> If there is a better system, please let me know.
> >
> > Check provincial laws for prohibitions against collecting minerals,
> > and, if it's not prohibited upon pain of fine and/or imprisonment, go
> > out to the closest riverbed and collect almost, but not quite, a full
> > bucket of fine dry silt.
> >
> > Go home and scour your oil collecting pans with the dry silt.
> >
> > Return the silt to the bucket and seal the bucket.
> >
> > You can use the same oil contaminated silt for several scourings of
> > your oil pans.
> >
> > When your municipality has a hazardous waste collection day, turn in
> > the bucket of contaminated silt.
> >
> > They will know what to do with contaminated soil, they do it all the
> > time...
>
> That is actually not a bad idea. I happen to know a place where I can
> get approximately 3000 m3 of claystone material dredged up from the
> B-horizon of the Bow River basin. I will probably not need that much..-)
You could also use Kitty Litter . . .
Posted by Calgary (Don) on May 29, 2011, 8:57 pm
On 29/05/2011 5:46 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> actual.rider***r@telus.net says...
>>
>> On 29/05/2011 10:16 AM, gus wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If there is a better system, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Check provincial laws for prohibitions against collecting minerals,
>>> and, if it's not prohibited upon pain of fine and/or imprisonment, go
>>> out to the closest riverbed and collect almost, but not quite, a full
>>> bucket of fine dry silt.
>>>
>>> Go home and scour your oil collecting pans with the dry silt.
>>>
>>> Return the silt to the bucket and seal the bucket.
>>>
>>> You can use the same oil contaminated silt for several scourings of
>>> your oil pans.
>>>
>>> When your municipality has a hazardous waste collection day, turn in
>>> the bucket of contaminated silt.
>>>
>>> They will know what to do with contaminated soil, they do it all the
>>> time...
>>
>> That is actually not a bad idea. I happen to know a place where I can
>> get approximately 3000 m3 of claystone material dredged up from the
>> B-horizon of the Bow River basin. I will probably not need that much..-)
> You could also use Kitty Litter . . .
Also a good idea.
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