Steel drums work best. The way to find suitable containers for a substance is find out what industry uses and restrain the drive to be autspergic. You can buy oil by the drum and often save a shitload of money.
Personally, I would recommend this.
You can get used drums that contained oil/cooking oil pretty cheap in most areas, handle them with easy drum-handling dollys. Then just keep them dry, should last more or less forever.
>spend 100 million years in the ground >5 more in a container and it's ruined
I bet you don't eat expired salt.
He's referring to engine oil in plastic bottles, which does have a shelf-life of around 5 years.
It's not the oil that "fails," it's the shitloads of additives in engine oil.
The TBN can be depleted even while just sitting on the shelf in a plastic bottle.
The old steel cans were better, and did offer a greater shelf-life for engine oil.
The oil isn't ruined, the oil is fine and will continue to be fine for a very long time.
There's very little effect to the oil itself, it just won't be a very good engine oil anymore.
If you pull a 10+ year old plastic bottle of Valvoline off the shelf, you really shouldn't put it in your car.
It's still oil, it's still lubricious, and it can still burn, it's just not a great engine oil anymore as a lot of the engine oil specific additives have degraded.
If you want to store engine oil long-term, buy it in steel, leave it in the steel.
If you want to store "crude" oil, steel.
If you want your shit to last, there better be no moisture in it.
That's about it.
Just use a cherry can. Even HDPE is made of oil and will soak after enough time. If you can store it well, you can use glass too. But it's glass. If you do, spray paint it black. Theres stuff that gets activated by just light and might even start polymerizing. And whatever you do, store it between 15 °C and 25 °C with no influence from weather
milk jugs are hdpe and i used to store used oil in them, they usually start leaking around a year or so. Theyre pretty thin tho
>Is HDPE container okay for long term storage of oil?
google it because it depends on the type of oil.
should be fine, just keep it out of the sun or the plastic will get brittle and crack
can i ask why you need to keep oil for 30 years?
hes going to save all his oil changes in his garage for life then die giving a hassle to whoever gets the house
Back in the day we used to just dump our oil in the storm drain before they started lying about climate change on the news.
One has nothing to do with the other, moron.
Steel drums work best. The way to find suitable containers for a substance is find out what industry uses and restrain the drive to be autspergic. You can buy oil by the drum and often save a shitload of money.
Personally, I would recommend this.
You can get used drums that contained oil/cooking oil pretty cheap in most areas, handle them with easy drum-handling dollys. Then just keep them dry, should last more or less forever.
Oil's shelf life is 5 years, good luck.
WHICH oil? Citation needed or frick off.
The manufacturer has that info so if worried contact tech support.
Bullshit America has been storing oil in barrels for decades
He's referring to engine oil in plastic bottles, which does have a shelf-life of around 5 years.
It's not the oil that "fails," it's the shitloads of additives in engine oil.
The TBN can be depleted even while just sitting on the shelf in a plastic bottle.
The old steel cans were better, and did offer a greater shelf-life for engine oil.
The oil isn't ruined, the oil is fine and will continue to be fine for a very long time.
There's very little effect to the oil itself, it just won't be a very good engine oil anymore.
If you pull a 10+ year old plastic bottle of Valvoline off the shelf, you really shouldn't put it in your car.
It's still oil, it's still lubricious, and it can still burn, it's just not a great engine oil anymore as a lot of the engine oil specific additives have degraded.
If you want to store engine oil long-term, buy it in steel, leave it in the steel.
If you want to store "crude" oil, steel.
If you want your shit to last, there better be no moisture in it.
That's about it.
can I get a source on that champ?
>spend 100 million years in the ground
>5 more in a container and it's ruined
I bet you don't eat expired salt.
You're not storing unrefined crude, moron. Stop trying to have a point.
Cry harder isis FBI agent
Op burying some funs
Just use a cherry can. Even HDPE is made of oil and will soak after enough time. If you can store it well, you can use glass too. But it's glass. If you do, spray paint it black. Theres stuff that gets activated by just light and might even start polymerizing. And whatever you do, store it between 15 °C and 25 °C with no influence from weather