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V · 03-02-2013, 01:50 PM

well, I finally got around to pulling all the buckets out to the driveway and opening them up. i started with 6. I managed to consolidate them down to 4. all the oil/antifreeze mixes really had separated and were fairly easy to pour into different containers. Now I have 3 5gallon buckets of just used oil(trans fluid too but its all mixed and you cant tell plus that's fine) and one 5 gallon bucket of antifreeze. The antifreeze has maybe 4-5 little drops of oil floating around on the top but that's it.
I had one 15 gallon bucket I had outside which I thought was a mix of everything but turned out it was just left over granulated pool chlorine that the top had cracked and allowed water in to dissolve and dilute it. There was no smell of chlorine anymore either that's how diluted it had become, but just the the sake of it, i poured it in my pool. lol. I did come across 4 containers ( 1 gallon and 3 pint containers of unknown chemicals/liquids. I put those bottles in a bigger sealed container in case they leak, and ill deal with them another time.

So in the end, I shouldn't have a big issue getting rid of the oil/antifreeze.

03-02-2013, 01:50 PM	#23
V Stalker Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 12,082 iTrader: (12)	well, I finally got around to pulling all the buckets out to the driveway and opening them up. i started with 6. I managed to consolidate them down to 4. all the oil/antifreeze mixes really had separated and were fairly easy to pour into different containers. Now I have 3 5gallon buckets of just used oil(trans fluid too but its all mixed and you cant tell plus that's fine) and one 5 gallon bucket of antifreeze. The antifreeze has maybe 4-5 little drops of oil floating around on the top but that's it. I had one 15 gallon bucket I had outside which I thought was a mix of everything but turned out it was just left over granulated pool chlorine that the top had cracked and allowed water in to dissolve and dilute it. There was no smell of chlorine anymore either that's how diluted it had become, but just the the sake of it, i poured it in my pool. lol. I did come across 4 containers ( 1 gallon and 3 pint containers of unknown chemicals/liquids. I put those bottles in a bigger sealed container in case they leak, and ill deal with them another time. So in the end, I shouldn't have a big issue getting rid of the oil/antifreeze.