My oil collection set-up

[Black02Silverado]

I change a bunch of oil and over time by turning the empty qt bottle upside down for 24hrs I collect a quart of oil pretty quickly. I used to do it one at a time over another quart.

So I came of with this idea to where I can do 5qts at one time. I can add to it if I want, some of my oil changes are 8qts. I do use gallons and have not tried to put a gallon on here but think I can make it work.

It is still work in progress as to how I want to mount it. Didn't want to screw into the garage wall, thus the reason for the plywood and rubber tubes holding it up.

I also chamfered the inside of the pieces so the oil would run down and not collect on the inside of the connections.

I looked all over to find the best price on the fittings and it turned out our local Ace Hardware was the cheapest, even less than Lowe's.

I washed everything out really good to make sure there wasn't any plastic dust from all the grinding with my dremel. Now let the oil changes begin.

[Jsdirt]

Great idea!

 

I've been sticking them all over the engine compartment with the caps on, then spill them all over the place trying to unscrew the cap upside-down. Been doing that for 25+ years. You'd think I'd have come up with this myself by now ...

 

If you market that I'd bet you'd make a KILLING.

[BigBlueLB756]

Now that is a catch can!

Brilliant.

[mjoekingz28]

Don't try it with Castrol Magnatec!

[Jsdirt]

HAHAHA!

[Chris]

Is this just to empty the excess out of the bottle for "recycling"?

[sdeeter19555]

I have a broiler pan from an oven (the shallow pan with the grate) with a drain installed...I use that to drain my oil filters, funnels, and bottles onto...it then drains to a 5 gallon bucket. The pan is screwed down to my workbench to keep it from moving, the bucket is in the cabinet under the workbench.

 

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[Black02Silverado]

Is this just to empty the excess out of the bottle for "recycling"?

Yes, I usually let them sit upside down for a day or two.

[Jsdirt]

I just recently discovered the best method for draining oil filters is to punch a hole in the top - they drain 100% after letting a little air inside. I had been mucking up my trash can for years with used oil leaching out of the filters. Hasn't happened since. I keep a hammer and a large 1/4" thick nail over near my waste oil burner collection area - punch the hole, throw it inside my large galvy funnel, and walk away. It's bone dry in 24 hours.

[Black02Silverado]

I just recently discovered the best method for draining oil filters is to punch a hole in the top - they drain 100% after letting a little air inside. I had been mucking up my trash can for years with used oil leaching out of the filters. Hasn't happened since. I keep a hammer and a large 1/4" thick nail over near my waste oil burner collection area - punch the hole, throw it inside my large galvy funnel, and walk away. It's bone dry in 24 hours.

Advance Auto here takes all my used oil and filters as well as Auto Zone and O'Riley's.

[Chris]

We have a waste Oil "heater". I will say the Amsoil xl burns good

[Jsdirt]

I built mine 100% myself. I was supposed to be building a coal stove for a guy so he could sell them, but he died suddenly and unexpectedly of lung cancer. I ended up with the unfinished stove. My welding skills suck, so I couldn't sell the thing to anyone and sleep well at night, so I kept it for my waste oil burner project.

 

I bored a hole in the side for 2.5" exhaust pipe, then welded another section on at a 45° angle. Ran copper tubing down the center of it. The pipe goes into a gutted Beckett oil burner unit, which has only the squirrel-cage fan inside - basically a turbocharger for the stove. I took the OEM front rotor off my Silverado, welded a patch over the hub hole, and welded the lug holes shut. Then I took 2 rear discs off a '98 Toyota Camry, cut the faces off of them, faced them toward each other, and welded the 2 together like a spool - I sit that assembly on top of the Silverado rotor to aid as a heat sink. Now that copper line runs through the Beckett burner unit, and into a 3/8" 30R7 hose, a needle valve shutoff, then, into a 6 gallon plastic pail. I control how hot the fire gets with that needle valve.

 

It takes some time to warm up, but once it does, I kick the burner unit on, and the fire gets WHITE hot. Then, as it gets hotter, I block off the wide open top section (where the ignition coil and control unit normally sit) with a license plate - that REALLY boosts the air pressure heading into the stove. Once that's on there, it will melt your face, lol. Had the thing up to 1,200° using my infrared hand-held thermometer - burned all the paint off the thing.

 

Barn is 26' x 36', with a huge loft above the 9' ceiling, all uninsulated - heats that whole thing up to 70° in a couple hours and keeps it there, even in the single digit winter temps outside. Costs me nothing but electricity, and a little labor on my part. It will burn ANYTHING - antifreeze, brake fluid, gear oil, tranny fluid, etc., and when I dial it back a bit, not one wisp of smoke can be seen from the chimney. VERY happy with how it all turned out. Finished it in '14. Painted it 70's Chevy engine blue. Didn't last though - was only good to 500° ...