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Originally Posted by wannabee
One morning, while living in a boarding house as a bachelor I was carry my washing to the cloth's line and I noticed there was an electric extension lead running out the door and into the garden.
At the end of it was a yellow plastic coffee percolator making a K'plop K'plop sound. I thought I could smell the mechanic's workshop down the road until I realised the smell was coming from the coffee pot. A container of used motor oil stood nearby.
One of the tenants who was rather thrifty and had moved to Australia from somewhere north of England was percolating used engine oil with the intention of reusing it. I never got to know if he was successful or not. Percolators only hold a couple of cups and there was an awful lot of used oil waiting to be percolated.
I later helped him carry many boxes of out of date fruit juice from his car which he purchased cheaply from the supermarket. He brewed it up to a kind of fruit beer which although was rather strange to taste, got you pretty plastered.
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I love that story.
Since Stitchawl and ProfCrash already beat me to the second part, I am very curious about the first part. I will have to do some research to see what happens with the used oil when percolated in the coffee pot.