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Cleaning out & purging lots of old clutter. One thing I did was (finally) consolidate all the 1 gallon cans of used mineral spirits I'd accumulated over the years in woodworking & construction.

I typically poured the residue from brush cleaning, etc., back into a metal can & labeled it "Used." Most of the solids (stain pigments, paint solids, polyurethane, etc.) settled out over time. Sometimes I would use it as a parts cleaning solvent, but I didn't clean enough parts, it would seem!

I now have a 5-gallon bucket of filtered, discolored, but otherwise very minerally-spirity mineral spirits. Of course, I could take it to the haz waste area of the dump & pay to "dispose" of it, but I wonder if anyone has a good secondary use for it.

Oil heater? (I don't have one.) Parts cleaner? Sex lube? Chicken wash?

What say you?
 
There's one idea!

Hm. Is it vendable? What's the going rate per oz?

What else y'all got?
 
Check with the local landfill, they usually will have a day set aside for disposing hazardous materials.
 
Fire starter. I use a couple quarts of marvel every year in my wood heater, as well as every ounce of waste cooking oil, except bacon grease and even that when it gets rancid.
Save all paper rolls and stuff with greasy paper towels.
Soak some Woody stuff in it for fire starting.
 
How 'bout a almost-never empty camp lamp? I'll twirl up some old underwear for a wick...

I better switch to a metal container though.
 
It's a shame you didn't start this thread late last year. I would have taken it off your hands and poured it into a long tube so I could soak my son's then newly acquired M48 that had been to cosmoline hell.:D
 
How 'bout a almost-never empty camp lamp? I'll twirl up some old underwear for a wick...

I better switch to a metal container though.


You sir need to turn in your man card!!
Any real man will never give up old underwear, it doesn't get old, it just gets more comfortable w/o all the extra fabric after the holes start to appear.
 
Any real man will never give up old underwear, it doesn't get old, it just gets more comfortable w/o all the extra fabric after the holes start to appear.

I stand abashed and corrected.

There is, of course, only one honorable way to inter old underwear (and only after the elastic has failed, causing them to fall down inside your pants and strangle willie and the boys).

Those parts still more fabric than hole can be respetfully used for gun cleaning.
 
I think you both need to turn in your man cards for even thinking about wearing underwear, that $hi7 is for girls and even then all it does is get in the way of a good time.
 
I think you both need to turn in your man cards for even thinking about wearing underwear, that $hi7 is for girls and even then all it does is get in the way of a good time.
I realize some think that high pain tolerance is the hallmark of masculinity. However, I reached a point where I decided it was ok the utilize simple cloth device that prevented my knees from whackin' my 3@llsac with every step... :cool:
 
I realize some think that high pain tolerance is the hallmark of masculinity. However, I reached a point where I decided it was ok the utilize simple cloth device that prevented my knees from whackin' my 3@llsac with every step... :cool:

I just cut a slit in a front pocket and tuck'em in there.
 
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