[Shop-talk] Battery recycling was cordless tools

[Scott]

Yeah, I guess I was just thinking of the 'ick' factor.  It must be legal 
and not-entirely-deadly because people are doing it.  I just don't think 
I want to be around when they're doing it.

Which must be a personal...whatever the opposite of blind spot is, 
because I happily stand around car exhausts and have worked on cars and 
motorcycles indoors...while they're running.  After that, waste oil 
burning on the other side of a heat exchanger is probably nothing.   :-)

On 11/30/2011 1:48 PM, Randall wrote:
>> I have no idea, so I'm just asking: is that safe?  There's stuff in
>> used
>> motor oil that I wouldn't want burned then in the air anywhere near me.
> The EPA approves waste oil burners, provided they get hot enough to
> completely burn the oil.  IIRC the leftover ash is supposed to be treated as
> toxic waste, because some (maybe most) of the nasty stuff stays behind.
>
> No doubt some of it does get out in the exhaust, but the same thing is true
> of car exhaust.