Waste Oil Disposal

Can we have the link to the info on the web

Or what truck engines (modern) would run old lube oil into the fuel system?

Richard

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Hi Richard,

Try the following web site:

Site Link

I new about the system but not who made it so had to contact my son-inlaw who works on the big long-haul rigs. He tells me that Cummings Integrated Centinel Oil System is a retrofited system run by the engine ECM and has an oil make up resevouir tank mounted behind the cab. There is also another system made by Cummings called 'Burn-only Centinel'. This system is for smaller delivery type vehicles and does NOT top up the engine oil as it is burnt so you have to check your oil regularly.

Both systems have a 4,000 hours / 525,000 miles between oil changes and 100,000 miles between oil filter changes.

Hi again Richard, Forgot to say that there are other web sites that give far more info. Search on Cummings Integrated Centinel and variations.

They should not charge you as waste oil is sold and used for burning in furnaces as bunkering oil. In the goldfield it is big business with the amount they collect from the mines. I am sure your local council gets paid for the oil you are charged to dump. Nav.

Maaate ! We're talking Gold Coast City Council here. They charge for EVERYTHING !I took 4 rims to the tip. $4 each to "dump", so the recycling people could re sell them half an hour later.
In 20 years I've rarely seen a summer without water restrictions for the residents. Now that's good management, isn't it ?
I could go on, but the locals know the story. There are probably worse councils, but I haven't heard of many.

Nav 8,

We live in Logan city halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and we are charged for everything we take to the tip.

Brian, the Logan tip does charge a general dump fee but doesn't charge any extra to dump your oil (Mt Cotton Transfer station)

John,

We just took some down a few weeks ago to Mt Cotton and they charged us.

Maybe it is the luck of the draw who is working at the gate on the day hey?

Have a good one.

Footloose,

I've been on the Gold Coast for 4 years. When you say "The locals know the story"
you're right.
The local rags,the bulletin and the sun seem to stalk that council, it certainly is embattled. I stopped reading the bulletin as it is too disturbing. I buy the courier mail instead, they havn't discovered the gccc yet!

Regards

Greg

I live at Mt Cotton and have never been charged to dump anything. And I have been told that I can dump up to 20L of oil in the recycle tank free.

So every oil change in the 80 I just take it to the tip and it's all sorted.

I thought that the Redland tips only charged it your didn't live in the council or were a commerical business.

Chucky,

The Mt Cotton tip opposite the crematorium on Mt Cotton Road is not a Redlands tip but is run by Logan City Council.

Must have just been bad luck for us as the guy charged us for dumping used engine oil.

I will query it if they try to do it next time.

I live in the estate that backs onto the crematorium.
The logan dump is closer to me and I went there once but they wanted to charge me nearly twenty bucks for a trailer load. I turned around and drove to the Redland bay tip and got rid of it for nothing. And they are only 5 mins apart from each other
I go to the tip at the other end of Valley way, Near where German church rd meets Redland bay road.
And it's free there.

Yep, strain it through an old pillow slip, mix in a bit of caustic soda and then sell it back to you LOL

I take mine to the tip - what's left after using it to feed the white ants on the fence. Don't have to pay, or if I'm supposed to, no-one has stung me for the $$.

Cheers
John

Hmmmm, now what was that Nissan exploding engine problem that was supposedly caused by an oil related problem? I wonder if the owners were buying their oil from ............