Unconventional but effective way to get WVO gunk off the sides of drums

[Tony]

You know how it is, after a year all your collection drums have a layer of nasty black sticky grime on the sides that even the most frightening solvents have trouble shifting.  This grime seems to be oxidised WVO with dust in it - seemingly unshiftable.

But, I've found a very lazy (if slow) way to get them all clean - shove 'em in the dankest corner of the garden in the undergrowth where all the slugs and snails live.  They love it!  It takes a while (think months) but the resulting drums come out far cleaner than any amount of scrubbing the petrol will achieve!

Bizarre but true

[kamaangir]

Have you tried my patented KOH NAOH cleaning regime? there is a description of it in another post! The PPE described is compulsory!

I do rent out Burt Reynold style chest wigs! hahahaha

[Tony]

Ah yes, I did laugh at your description!  Trust the Iranian to do something dangerous so casually

[kamaangir]

It wasn't casual at all I was wearing boxers and socks hahahaha

[Rotary-Motion]

my first settling drum the inside wall has snails trails all round they do seem to like a good munch on it...

[julesandtash]

I wonder if it works on the black stain under the fuel filler cap too.

I can just see it now, loads of veg & bio runners with snails and worms clinging to the sides of their cars 

[kamaangir]

Could be another way to use up your crappy veg, grow slugs and let them eat your whites, feed the slugs to chickens and have loads of eggs and roast chicken!

[greasemonkey]

Now what would be really handy is if the slugs and snails could eat the veg, and excrete bio diesel. I would be a lot more fond of them then, rather than chewing off my tomato plants.

[julesandtash]

Genetically Modified Slugs - now that would be worth seeing. Would be the first time in their evolution that they have actually done something useful.

[chariot]

Well I wouldn't want to eat any snails or snail-fed chicken if they'd been fed on anything genetically modified. Call me wary - I don't even risk my engine on diesel and its nasty additives anymore.    Grudgingly there is small proportion of (waste) GM Soya which goes through the cars' cylinders. The very same stuff which is causing the destruction of poor farming families' lives in the 3rd world as well as the destruction of massive amounts of rain-forest. I notice when in Bookers how its price has risen from around £10-12 to around £20 for a cubie, whilst rapeseed oil has remained at a similar price.

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