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Re-refined Motor Oil

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http://www.ac-rerefined.com/index.html

This probably a small part fo the future. I have been knocking around reading on this type of product and a found some disturbing news.:

""Consider this account by the New York Times, using as its source the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Petroleum Institute (API): "Each year, 1.2 BILLION gallons of lubricating oil are used in vehicles; 600 million gallons are burned up in engines, and 600 million gallons are removed at oil change time. Drivers who change their own oil account for 350 million of the removed gallons, and they improperly discard 240 million gallons of used oil." 1
Dumping 240 million gallons of oil is nearly the same as two Exxon Valdez spills each month. Improperly dumped waste oil seeps through landfills into ground water, disrupts bacterial digestion in sewer treatment plants (causing even more pollution), and washes into lakes and harbors. And we have no confident estimate of what happens to "properly" discarded waste oil. In 1989, there were only four re-finers left in the U.S. They processed a total of only 50 million gallons of the 600 million gallons theoretically possible.2""
 
Hi,

Wow. I bring my used oil to my local Pep Boys (auto store) garage. I hope they recycle/dispose of it properly. :o


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
BassCliff said:
Hi,

Wow. I bring my used oil to my local Pep Boys (auto store) garage. I hope they recycle/dispose of it properly. :o


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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I use them too (because they're closest to my house).
Ken
 
Sie Motorr?der said:
Actually oil changes are maintenance. Or maybe you think it chooses and changes itself without consideration.
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But the info you posted is a story about oil, not informative or inquiring about oil changes :cool:

Just givin you a hard time, don't get your dick all oiled.
 
Im sorry but did you guys not look at the link.
Its as worthy here as anything about Mobil 1 or toher brands.

Has anyone here used re-refined oil? Would they in their bikes?
Thats where I was coming from. I didnt even know the stuff existed before today.

I think it is worth one of you risking your bikes on go ahead do it.
 
On bikes with the gearbox running in engine oil, used oil would not protect very well. The gears actually shred the oil molecules causing the viscosity to decrease or something technical like that.
On other beater bikes with separate transmissions, or crappy old cars it's probably good enough. It's probably great in a lawnmower or a Harley, but no one ever changes oil in those. :')

But yeah, this should definitely be in the off topic. Do you know where to find that forum?
 
tkent02 said:
On bikes with the gearbox running in engine oil, used oil would not protect very well. The gears actually shred the oil molecules causing the viscosity to decrease or something technical like that.
On other beater bikes with separate transmissions, or crappy old cars it's probably good enough. It's probably great in a lawnmower or a Harley, but no one ever changes oil in those. :')

But yeah, this should definitely be in the off topic. Do you know where to find that forum?
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of course he does, he "asked the admins to ban him"
 
tkent02 said:
On bikes with the gearbox running in engine oil, used oil would not protect very well. The gears actually shred the oil molecules causing the viscosity to decrease or something technical like that.
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I think the gears shear the long chain molecules in the multi-viscosity additive packages. This basically breaks a multi-viscosity oil down to its base viscosity (i.e., 15W-40 approaches straight 15W). If they sufficiently separate out the actual oil and combine new additives packages, shear in the tranny is probably not much more of a concern than with "new" oils. But that's my totally uneducated opinion and I don't know if that's how it's done anyway.
 
Sigh! OK tear me down I likely deserve it. Charlie Sheen and I are unrepentant however.
 
Sie Motorr?der said:
Sigh! OK tear me down I likely deserve it. Charlie Sheen and I are unrepentant however.
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i like charlie sheen, you however have made me lose faith in human intelligence and the evolutionary progress
 
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I figured they just filtered it and added more food coloring, maybe there's more to it than that. Still I wouldn't run it in a bike I cared about.
 
FreshStart said:
i like charlie sheen, you however have made me lose faith in human intelligence and the evolutionary progress
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Well if you give up the bananas and get higher heels to avoid dragging your knuckles maybe you can pass for having evolved.

Give it a try my pithy ( for some reason ) nemesis.:twistedevil:
 
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