Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
He's not much of a farmer if he wastes his time straining a few gallons of oil through toilet paper to try to save a couple dollars. All of the farmers I know are far too busy to waste that much time-bulk lubricants aren't that expensive.
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
That was a unique event if it happened. People have been using toilet paper to filter oil, gas, white gas, kerosene and diesel fuel for many, many years and I've never heard of that happening. It's an urban myth at best.
And yet toilet tissue manages to starts to break down in my toilet before I flush, and quickly breaks down in my septic tank after a couple days. Yet somehow it manages to hold together and act as a filter with oil, gas, white gas, kerosene and diesel fuel?
That's funny.
The filtering project is being done by 10 and 12 year old boys. They do the lab samples, too. Your comments are those of someone that has no experience with the subject.
Here's a comment typed in by the 10 year old:
Hello, my name is Tom. My brother Bill and I reuse this oil because it's part of a school science project. We are making the oil last longer and John at school gets the lab results from his father. My older brother worked out the oil change system using the amount of gasoline used by each truck which is tracked at the big fuel tank, instead of mileage or time and checked the results with lab tests. We buy the toilet paper in bulk at Costco and we have never had a roll come apart while filtering. Not even for gasoline. Never. My brother and John and I tested with gasoline under pressure and with old contaminated oil headed up to 250F and pumped through the toilet paper. No problem. I don't like people telling us we are stupid and that we don't know what we're doing. So far I know much more about this oil stuff than most adults but I don't tell them that they are stupid.
Tom (this is Bill and I agree with Tom)
What does Tom know about oil? Maybe he can share with us his reason for using toilet paper, the 250F temperature, and how he came up with his mileages and gallon usage? What does he think about the UOA? Do you have trends from first processing to last, before it's disposed of? What did the TBN, TAN, oxidation levels look like?
Also, how much does it cost to reuse the oil and dispose of the used toilet paper? This should include not only the cost of buying the toilet paper, but also the heat source for raising the temperature.
Finally, what were the typical first-use oil change intervals, since each new car has differing oil change schemes.