valvoline recycled oil

[Soundguy]

I see we have come full circle. I can just barely remember seeing recycled oil sold at service stations when i was younger. I see it's becoming popular again.. just without the associated money savings..


soundguy

 

[Heavyduty]

I see we have come full circle. I can just barely remember seeing recycled oil sold at service stations when i was younger. I see it's becoming popular again.. just without the associated money savings..


soundguy

I was talking about "Recycling" the other day with the old guy who works the local dump. Theirs always a big push by his Boss to get people in the general public to recycle,recylce,recycle but who getting the benefit here? I know recycling does help the enviroment but we all know that big money is being made by all those aluminum cans, plastics, and paper being dropped off throughout the year. The man at the dump also said the % of recycled material needs to go up and I said what good does it do for the everyday person? The yearly landfill fees do NOT drop or anything else for that matter. I beleive that recycling is only good for the ones making $$$ off it. :thumbsup:

 

[F1520]

I see we have come full circle. I can just barely remember seeing recycled oil sold at service stations when i was younger. I see it's becoming popular again.. just without the associated money savings..

Hmm.... when I worked on container ships a few years back I was told that used motor oil was "recycled" as LFO (light fuel oil) and burned as fuel in the ships' diesel engines.

They're actually purifying old motor oil and reselling it for use in car engines? :confused2: I haven't seen this yet.

(And you gotta see the diesel engines on these ships. Inline five cylinder diesels with pistons taller than me and cylinders a man can stand inside of! :confused2

 

[silvertramp]

There's a finite amount of raw materials on the planet. Recycling helps us all in the long run.

 

[Soundguy]

Hmm.... when I worked on container ships a few years back I was told that used motor oil was "recycled" as LFO (light fuel oil) and burned as fuel in the ships' diesel engines.

They're actually purifying old motor oil and reselling it for use in car engines? :confused2: I haven't seen this yet.

(And you gotta see the diesel engines on these ships. Inline five cylinder diesels with pistons taller than me and cylinders a man can stand inside of! :confused2

yep.. seen em.. low rpm.. high torque. i hear it's quite common for them to burn their MANY gallons of used oil in their fuel.

soundguy

 

[BXpanded]

Safety-Kleen is a major re-processor of all types of used oil. Industrial facilities pay them to pick up used hydraulic, gear, etc. as a hazardous waste. They filter/ re-process and sell it as #3 and #4 fuel oil.

 

[F1520]

yep.. seen em.. low rpm.. high torque. i hear it's quite common for them to burn their MANY gallons of used oil in their fuel.

Yep, real low rpm. Something like 100 revs per minute if I remember correctly. I just did a quick search for hp and torque specs, but the ships I was on have been bought by another company and renamed and I wasn't finding anything I recognized.

I thought they were kidding about the "recycled" oil when they first told me. This was the kind of place where they'd tack weld your toolbox shut if you called out sick. :laughing:

 

[ray66v]

They seem to suggest if you don't use their product, the dirty oil will wind up being dumped on the ground, or in the ocean. :confused2:

I don't know who other than environmental extremists, will fall for their marketing ploy, and use this stuff.

They should be honest in their advertising, and offer the product for a fair price, for those who want to save money.

If what I have seen on TBN is a sample of the country, Valvoline will not sell very much of their recycled oil.

 

[Bird]

I see we have come full circle. I can just barely remember seeing recycled oil sold at service stations when i was younger. I see it's becoming popular again.. just without the associated money savings..


soundguy

I haven't seen recycled oil in many, many years, but in the late '50s, early '60s, in my Dad's service station we stocked Texas Star recycled (re-refined, I think they called it) motor oil. Some customers asked if we had any two bit motor oil (two bits is 25 cents for you younger readers:laughing and seemed a bit embarrassed by asking for it. We didn't mind at all since our profit was 12.5 cents on the 25 cent motor oil while we only made 11 cents on the 40 and 45 cent name brand oils.:laughing:

 

[Soundguy]

I don't go back that far, but do remember the cardbaord carton oil quarts and remember re-refined oil.. was a shock to walk into walmart and see that product..

heck.. they should have went back to putting it in glass quart bottles or the cardboard jobs you had to stab the metal lids with a screwdriver and splash oil on your sunday shirt doing so..


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