Getting rid of old kerosene

[Ed]

Today I did the job I hate most, cleaning the chain. It was mingin:smt103 I poured about 200ml kerosene into an old jam jar and used an old (soft) tooth brush to scrub, gently, at the rust that had started to attack the chain. I blame winter salt:rolleyes: And now it's nice and clean again, not kwak clean, but it'll do.

So - how do I get rid of the used kerosene? It's filthy and disgusting, obviously I can't pour it down the drain, I can't burn it as I don't have a patio heater, and even if I did I wouldn't put this noxious stuff in the fuel mix, so what can I do with it?

Org advice required please:D

[richie95]

200ml? stick in metal container and burn off.... will be gone in seconds.... or ...now i am not sure of this, is it like petrol and evaporate in the open???????

my 2p worth

[NickWilde123]

cant you take it to your local council rubbbish tip???

[kwak zzr]

id fire it!

[the_lone_wolf]

id fire it!

me too, but then i'm a pyro:smt077

[BanditPat]

down the drain....as long as the council dont find out you wont get a fine

[the_lone_wolf]

down the drain....as long as the council dont find out you wont get a fine

*facepalm*

[Dave20046]

pour it in a birdsnest

[DarrenSV650S]

I just chuck all the old oil/brake fluid/cleaners over the garden wall

[appollo1]

put th elid on the jam jar then take it to your local council recycling centre or on bin day put it in a neighbours bin!!!

[Sid Squid]

Do you do your own oil changes Ed? If you do then pour it in with your old oil, it will be perfectly safe.

[kwak zzr]

paint ya fence with it.

[Dave20046]

paint your mrs with it

[Sally]

Then light it?

[Dave20046]

:smt103

[Frank]

just shove a match in the bloody stuff,
why the hell not?

[kwak zzr]

arr serious now Ed, keep it til the 4th of april and when we all get back to your street we can pour it in the middle of your cul de sack lite it and do burnouts in the flames :)

[Sally]

Personally i would just light it.. :)

I love fire me :)

[Dave20046]

Me too but I got tagged last time :(


:razz:

[Sally]

I got burnt :(
Putting out fag ends with hands seem fun at the time..

have weird red marks on my arms too :(

[gettin2dizzy]

Chuck it in a tank of diesel.

[gettin2dizzy]

Do you do your own oil changes Ed? If you do then pour it in with your old oil, it will be perfectly safe.
It's a triumph. The engines change/burn the oil off themselves :lol:

[Ed]

It's a triumph. The engines change/burn the oil off themselves :lol:

Oi!!! Mine doesn't drink oil!!! I have a few other jamjars of the stuff too, I never know what to do with it. Recycling facility seems best, I dunno if they take it, I'll have a go. Else I'll burn it.

[Dave20046]

I dump stuff like that in with my oil then give it to the local garage to send off with theirs.

[Dave20046]

of course you could try putting it in the fuel tank...hmmm

[timwilky]

I have a couple of drums about 10 gallons capacity I acquired some years ago, I fill it with waste oil and occasionally empty it at my local recycling centre (Note I did not say dump, they don't like me calling it that).

However, interesting one was when the wifey put 50L of petrol in my diesel car. and phoned me saying whoops. I say do not start the engine. I get up there and the filling station owner is going beserk because she will not move it away from the pump. I push it away and empty the tank into my containers and go to local dump and ask where I can get rid of waste petrol, how much? they say and I say 70L. Not here. Well where? Dunno is the reply. So went to the dump in another down and emptied it into their oil tank without saying a word to anyone.

[Dave20046]

Should have left it outside your house with petrol written on it some poles would have had it in a heartbeat.

[Luckypants]

Recycling facility seems best, I dunno if they take it, I'll have a go. Else I'll burn it.Mine goes in the waste oil container like most other folks, then is taken to council disposal facility. Lets face it, most of what gets cleaned off the chain is old oil anyway.... :D

[darylB]

Knowing what you think of some of your neighbours, spray it on their lawns. or on their front drives.:D

Daryl.

[kwak zzr]

Knowing what you think of some of your neighbours, spray it on their lawns. or on their front drives.:D

Daryl.


arrr hence having 45 bikers in his street just to pi$$ them off lol :smt026

[Magnum]

Personally id tip it down the drain. Either that or drink it.

[Alpinestarhero]

I pour it back in the bottle. Its a solvent, it dosnt need to be pure for next time (we're not doing any cutting edge chemistry here) so I reuse it...it'll take an almighty amount of chain crud before it becomes unusable

[Ed]

I pour it back in the bottle. Its a solvent, it dosnt need to be pure for next time (we're not doing any cutting edge chemistry here) so I reuse it...it'll take an almighty amount of chain crud before it becomes unusable

So I can reuse it? I didn't know that, I thought I'd be re-applying the crap that came off. Oh it was disgusting, absolutley mingin. I blame Peak District salt on Binky's ride back in January - er yes I haven't cleaned it since:rolleyes:. I took a pic of my bike in Barmouth, and when I saw it on the PC screen - thought 'self, you gotta clean that before it falls off'

Magnum - tipping kerosene down the drain is a serious business, and because it leaves oily traces the sewerage people can trace it. Besides, I wouldn't do it anyway, it's highly toxic.

[Biker Biggles]

I would solve this problem by not cleaning the chain in the first place,thus having no waste kerosene to dispose of.:)

[benjyman]

Where do you get kerosene from? I really should sort my chain out.

[Ed]

Where do you get kerosene from? I really should sort my chain out.

Patio heater fuel. A 5litre container is about £5 - £6 from the garden furniture section of a DIY place. I got mine in Focus.

[Luckypants]

Where do you get kerosene from? I really should sort my chain out.

iron mongers, £2.99 for 5 liters

[punyXpress]

aka: paraffin
Ed: collect as many old tyres as you can & light them with the kerosene when your neighbours have hung out the washing & the wind's in the right direction.
Don't you have pikey connections? They'll burn anything!

[the_lone_wolf]

aka: paraffin
Ed: collect as many old tyres as you can & light them with the kerosene after hanging them around the local GATSO cameras

corrected for you...

[punyXpress]

Spot on! TLW, you can be my minder.

[cymroboi]

:smt047 why not stick it back in the original container and take it back to the garden center and tell them you bought the wrong stuff and change it for some thing els like a garden knome :^o

or els bag it up and stick it in the wheely bin the night before they collect them, it wont burn till you light it up :smt026

[arenalife]

put it in an old jam jar for cleaning the chain next time

[jimmy4237]

Stockpile the stuff, wear a balaclava, then torch the local speed gatso camera:p:p