What does PETA think about wringing
minks to get that oil?
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Since it wouldn’t take much oil, if I
were to opt for motor oil, I would use it fresh out of the bottle. It really does have lots of nasty pollutants after use. The mechanics I’ve known would not argue that exposure to used motor oil is helping them any.
Be prepared!
I once used a pair of homemade paracord boot laces as a makeshift waterpump drive belt.
Got me the last few miles to a farm store for a proper belt …
Delphinus
http://www.AquaDynology.com
Toxic
Used motor oil often contains toxic items such as benzene, lead, arsenic, zinc and cadmium. One ounce of used motor oil can contaminate 7500+ gallons of fresh water.
Wonder if burnt motor oil would help
… my boats from cracking? … Probably have to rub it on the inside so it wouldn’t pollute the waterways.
From a safety sheet for used oil.
http://www.safety-kleen.com/msds/81451rev9-20-07.pdf
USED OIL
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET
Revision 9/07; MSDS Form No. 81451 - Page 7 of 10
“Discard affected clothing, shoes, and/or protective equipment if they cannot be thoroughly cleaned.”
“Discard leather articles, such as shoes, saturated with the product.”
PETA
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I'm less worried about PETA than the mink........
Nasty little b....... when you start wringing oil out of them; they have sharp teeth & claws, and a really high pitched squeal that is terrible to hear.
If I'm in a racing mood; I coat the hull of my canoe with used transmission oil. Better than a bent shaft paddle, when you want to "shift gears", and get on down the river.
:^)
BOB
Animal Skins
Beeswax makes leather last longer.
The tannery worked hard to remove the oils/fats and preserve the leather, so it’s hard to imagine why you’d put it back on.
Vaseline
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For a few dollars you can get a large jar of vaseline at those cheap discount stores. A little less toxic and will do the same thing.
By now you must realize that you are on a "going green" web site.
When we were young kids, we used to rub car oil (new) on our baseball gloves. I'm still alive.
No! No! No! Stop and throw it all away
Dioxin Contamination. Plagued with a dust problem in the early 1970s due to its 23 miles (37 km) of dirt roads and lack of pavement funds, the city of Times Beach hired waste hauler Russell Bliss to oil the roads in and around the town in 1971.[2] From 1972 to 1976, Bliss sprayed waste oil on the roads at a cost of six cents per gallon used.
The problem began when Bliss had taken a contract with a local company called ICP to dispose of toxic waste.[2] ICP was being paid $3,000 per load to haul away toxic waste from Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company (NEPACCO), and ICP would turn around and pay Bliss $125 to take it off their hands.[2] NEPACCO operated a facility producing hexachlorophene in Verona, Missouri. Some parts of the facility had been used for the production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, and the waste clay and water contained levels of dioxin some 2,000 times higher than the dioxin content in Agent Orange.[2] Bliss claimed he was unaware that the waste contained dioxin, he even sprayed it around his own home.[2]
Bliss had first used the technique of spraying waste oil to control dust in horse stables after discovering it worked well at his own home.[2] When a March 1971 spraying resulted in the death of 62 horses, the owners of the stable suspected Bliss, who assured them it was just used engine oil.[2] But Bliss had mixed the NEPACCO waste with waste oil.[2] The owners followed Bliss’s activities, and after other stables experienced similar problems, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began investigating, and, in late 1979, a NEPACCO employee confessed the company’s practice of disposing of dioxin.[2] The government sued NEPACCO in 1980.
The EPA visited Times Beach in mid-1982, and, in November 1982, stories began to appear in the press about the discovery of dioxin in Times Beach. Another soil sample was taken December 3, 1982, and the test result showed dioxin levels some 100 times higher than the one part per billion generally considered to be hazardous to humans.
Check the story out on Wikpedia and see the result of Dixon on the skin.
let’s be clear about something
I’m not advocating preserving boots with used motor oil. But used motor oil does not equal dioxin.
SNO - SEAL
No, there ain’t no seals in it. It says “Beeswax waterproofing”. You smear it on then hit it with the hair dryer. Melts it right in. And String, the jar says “Orangeburg, SC” Support your somewhat local economy.
Neatsfoot Oil
Works like a charm, which isn’t surprising, since it the oil that is removed from cowhides during the cleaning and tanning process. We’ve used it on all our leather footwear for years. Besides keeping the leather supple to avoid cracking, it also swells it, which helps prevent leaking around stitch holes.
If you do find tiny leaks around the welt stitching, a generous application of Dubbin along the seam will keep things nice and dry.
You could place your boots under
a 71 series Detroit diesel (two stroke) and in minutes achieve a full saturation of Delo 100!
This has nothing to do with the topic!
Oh please. I’m sure that nobody is secretly hiding the waste products from dioxin manufacture inside the crankcase of the original poster’s engine! Engine oil isn’t the greatest stuff to have on your skin, but how can you justify shooting down his method with THIS kind of story?
Troll oil
I feed all my used motor oil to the trolls, they love the shyte.
This is just plain bad advice.
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I like the "troll oil" response, though!
rjh, childhood immunizations cause autism, but used motor oil is "hardly toxic"? The mechanics at my Ford dealer wear disposible gloves when changing my oil. Do you suppose it's so they won't spoil their manicures?
True Story of Another Kind of Waste Oil
Once when I was oiling the wood gunwales of one of my boats, I accidentally stepped on the edge of my oil container on the floor. The container was just a “pan” cut out of the bottom of a windshield-washer solvent bottle, and besides making a puddle on the garage floor when it flipped over, it covered half my boot with boiled-linseed oil. Well, once I was done with the boat, I smeared all the waste oil on both of my boots, since one of them was a mess anyway. It seemed to work okay as waterproofing for a while.
You’re lucky you didn’t get a hot-foot
due to spontaneous combustion! ;^)
I wasn’t worried
I assume you are kidding about that, since that can’t happen except with a big soaking mess of the stuff that’s so well wrapped up and contained that heat of oxidation can’t easily escape. My boots were no more likely to overheat and start on fire than the wood gunwales on my boat.