DON'T SAY POUR IT ON WEEDS. THAT IS THE ONLY ANSWER I HAVE EVER GOTTEN. I AM LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT ONE.
I have been using No Toil so I've just been pouring it down the drain, but I want to make the switch back to a petroleum based filter oil, the only thing holding me back is I have no idea what to do with it once I've cleaned the filter. Also there's now specific air filter cleaning solutions, would using one of those instead of turpentine or petrol change my options of how I can dispose of it? What do you personally do with it? Surely there's someone out there who doesn't just dump it on the ground.
Also I'm in Australia
Collect it in plastic jugs then when you have a few take a to your local recycling plant. Mine takes oil, gas, all kinds of shit. You just take it there and dump it in a drum they have.
I store my empty race fuel cans , and use them to store all my used tranny oil and such. I still use a bucket of just strait gas to rinse ( first rinse ) my filters , the oil and dirt sink to the bottom. I then hand wash them with warm water and soap , hang dry. Every couple years , I'll empty that filter cleaning gas into one of my empty race fuel cans. Next trip to the dump I take it to the oil/ gas recycling bin. Not a big fan of people dumping fuel and oil in the ground! Most dump truck services pick up and recycle your used oil as well.
Every house has a disposal area, at least when I was a kid there were.
I am confused, how do you have used air filter oil?
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Why do you wanna switch away from NoToil?
In the US I just clean my filters with gas and finish with a soapy rinse. When I’m out of weeds I take the rest to any gas station or auto parts store and they just filter and burn it in the winter.
Anybody use Wesson oil? I think I ready that tip here on Vital some years ago, but not sure if it would ignite from a backfire.
What do you do with used motor oil?
Why on earth would you want to switch from No Toil? IMO, the green bottle (alcohol free) No Toil is the greatest invention in the sport in years. I clean the filters in the kitchen sink with Oxy-Clean laundry detergent and they are good as new. Been using the stuff since it was introduced and I’ve never had a failure or even seen a spec of dirt inside the air boot.
I use a 2 gallon bucket with a lid, put a little more than a gallon of solvent in it and clean filters in the same solvent until it doesn’t work quickly anymore, usually 40-50 filters. I follow the solvent cleaning with a soap and hot water cleaning. The solvent eventually goes to a hazmat container at the local landfill with the rest of my old oils.
I use bel-ray or maxima filter oil, nothing water based.
I don't dispose of any air filter oil. I use it all up.
If you’re using paint thinner to clean it off I suppose you can soak it up with old news paper and light it on fire later, it doesn’t take much paint thinner to clean a filter. Check out the msds sheets for whatever you’re using I guess.
Get an old paint tin and mix it up with old engine oil and a bit of petrol and then set it on fire.
I have a paets washer, use it to get the oil out of the filter and then wash the filter with soapy water, I change the parts washer fluid abouit once a year and dispose of it at the local recycling place.
I have 2 small spackle buckets. 1 for kerosene to remove dirt and filter oil from dirty filters before washing them in the kitchen sink with Palmolive dish soap and the other spackle bucket with Belray air filter oil so there is no waste
I have a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, about 1/2- 2/3 full of kerosene. I wash the oil out in there, then go to another bucket with hot soapy water. Then rinse. About once per year, the kerosene gets too full of oil. At that point I take the bucket and contents to my county hazmat drop-off (free) and get a new bucket and kerosene.
I tried NoToil, hated everything about it, other than being able to wash filters in my sink. I didn’t trust the oil as much as petroleum-based, and the gunk that accumulates in your airbox is a PITA.
I used to dump all the used motor oil/gas from filter cleaning in an old vp can and when it filled up I’d pour it into my neighbors lawn in the middle of the night. Then they got a ring camera…which I wasn’t aware of.
I usually run my oil through a filtering device first, then attach it to the intake of my motorcycle where it traps all kinds of dirt particles and keeps it from entering into my engines top end! i then use and appropriate means to dilute and clean said filter and repeat… i may not be answering the question fully though.
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I usually find a local estuary and pour it on the wildlife
Preferably baby ducks. Nobody likes little ducklings. Fuck em
I'm environmentally sensitive.
I pour it directly in the gutter in front of the house. That way, when it rains (or somebody washes their car during the summer) the running water eventually "washes" it all "away" for me. Problem solved.
This thread was about " disposing filter oil"......now " Use " well that's a different story. I like to take left over filter oil , put it in syringes , then find baby seals and inject them with it. Any small helpless animal will do. Kittens too , right After I punch them in the face.
It's way less tacky than petroleum based oil, I clean my filters after literally every ride and I had dirt get past the filter with No Toil once. I just don't trust it enough
I do exactly this. Usually get a whole summer out of this set up before the solvent is too laden with oil.
What happens to all the dirt on the filter when you do this? Does it just sink to the bottom?
I once tried washing my filter in a 5-gallon bucket of water but it mostly just turned it into dirty water and got particulates all over the filter. That experience always kept me wary of dunking in a bucket so I've always used running water ever since.
I found if you give the no toil bottle a good shake before putting it on your filter it doesn't settle as much. I don't dip the filter in the oil, i pour the oil on the filter and work it in.
Ditto. I'm confused.
I dip my filters in premix, done. There's oil in there anyway.
Don’t get caught doing that. You aren’t even supposed to drain a pool into the sewer system lol
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