"Tohru" (tohrurokuno)
10/31/2014 at 10:40 • Filed to: None
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"Tohru" (tohrurokuno)
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Yep, that's how it was done in 1963.
Don't worry, kids! You do enough oil changes at the same spot and you'll be able to drill for it later on!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:44 |
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*Popular Science
Popular Mechanics tended to be slightly more practical, but not much. PopSci took a sanity and helpfulness downward slide after the 50s - we've got a '57 projects book they put out that wasn't completely screwy.
Also, as horrible as this is, gravel provides an adhesion surface for all that oil, and it won't all dissipate that quickly. If you seeded this with enough bacteria, it could almost work.
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Tohru
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/31/2014 at 10:46 |
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Corrected the title.
So, like, if I took a deuce on top of the oil gravel, it would work? BRB trying on neighbor's yard
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:51 |
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Haha, don't forget this was back in the day of ZERO emissions systems.
When I go under the Montego I can see the rubber hose that leads down from the PCV valve and well...spits that shit on the ground as I drive lol
That's how 1968 removed gunk from your motor.
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Tohru
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/31/2014 at 10:51 |
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If you ever watch an old show like CHiPs, you'll see the shiny streak down the center of each lane on the highway. That's from everyone's PCV systems.
deekster_caddy
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:52 |
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This is how I was taught, and what we did for the first 7 or 8 years I was driving. Never saw any downfall to it either. I know it's "bad for the ground" and all that, but the soil came up pretty clean years later. When we moved years later, the house we were buying had a "hole" in the garage floor. Testing showed used motor oil, oil based paint, antifreeze etc had been poured down that hole. The bank selling us the house paid Clean Harbors about $30,000 to clean it out. This method used to be SOP.
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:53 |
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changing lanes must have been...slippery
And if we know anything from movies, if you touch even the littlest bit of oil while driving, you'll be spinning around about 4 times before crashing.
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Tohru
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/31/2014 at 10:54 |
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You didn't want to be on the roads during the first hour of any rain. Oil and water coated road + bias ply tires = graceful spins into the back of a Kenworth.
jariten1781
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:55 |
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My grandpa, until the day he died, just dumped it out and brushed it into his driveway and sidewalks. "Keeps the dust down".
Rock Bottom
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
10/31/2014 at 10:55 |
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Don't forget about the explosion. There's always an explosion.
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Tohru
> deekster_caddy
10/31/2014 at 10:55 |
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There used to be a salvage yard near where I grew up that dumped all the car fluids right on the ground. The problem was they were still doing this until the early 00's.
kanadanmajava1
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:58 |
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In my company we have one big oil spill containing box made of concrete (really big diesel engine is the source of the spills). New subway line goes below our building and the construction guys found plenty of oil soaked sand 10 meters below the ground. Then we noticed that the containing box was seeping small amounts of oil but it had been doing that for years without anyone noticing.
The oily sand was taken to some special area to let any substances to either vaporize or solidify during really long time.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:58 |
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Possibly. Science is the art of the tested - Go Forth and Science.
ttyymmnn
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 10:58 |
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My brother-in-law used to work at the Fernald site in Ohio where he classified toxic waste for clean up. Back in the day, they enriched uranium at the site, and any nasty stuff they had was put in drums and dumped in a hole in the ground. If a barrel started leaking, they just put it in a bigger barrel. Some barrels were three or four deep. Back then, it wasn't so much a lack of concern for the environment as it was a matter of expedience, plus a bit of hubris. We've come a long way in our understanding of what harm we can do to the environment. But in 1960, who was recycling used oil?
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 11:00 |
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"graceful" lol
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Rock Bottom
10/31/2014 at 11:01 |
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oh yeah, there's no chance a car could spin 4 times and crash with out exploding in a gigantic fashion.
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Tohru
> ttyymmnn
10/31/2014 at 11:07 |
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It's true. If you weren't dumping it, you were throwing it on your bonfire.
Nibbles
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 11:09 |
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My pops had an oil spot in the back of our acre. We used this through the early '00s as well
My defense is that we were backwater fucks that ain't give a shit
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Tohru
> Nibbles
10/31/2014 at 11:19 |
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You were a single family, though.
Not a salvage yard that processed 100 cars a year and knew full-well about stormwater runoff and ground contamination because the DNR people kept coming over and yelling at you.
BoulderZ
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 11:57 |
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One of my summer jobs in 7th or 8th grade was working on a maintenance crew at a big private campground. One of the guys I worked with was older, maybe 60s, who did the job just for something to do (listened to AM radio for the commodities market info, which was his real deal). He used to collect the used oil from all the equipment, and any employees who wanted to give it to him, and ran his furnace on it all winter long. His heating fuel bill (east coast, most everyone used heating oil) was almost zero. It was better than dumping it, for sure. I was fortunate to do enough chemistry and field lab work while getting my Bachelor's in Geology to see what those contaminants can do, how long they last, how far they travel, and where they end up. Glad proper disposal/recycling is so easy now. Reminds me, I've got about 2 gallons bottled up in my garage that I need to drop off...
Ntovorni
> Tohru
10/31/2014 at 12:12 |
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My parents always told me to be more careful driving when it just started raining because of slick roads...is that still a case with road treatments or the like?
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Tohru
> Ntovorni
10/31/2014 at 13:26 |
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Not so much anymore, although on some LA highways it can still be the case.