And here all this time I thought I was the only one anal enough to worry about getting .30 worth of oil out of those bottles. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "joel walker" <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:32 AM Subject: Re: For the Newbies - Vanagon secrets revealed
>> When putting oil in to your cars, do you leave the bottle end up for >> a while, or as soon as it mainly empty, do you remove the one and >> put >> another? > > what i do is to empty the one bottle, and then start another one; THEN > i take the last-used bottle and save it ... and put the next-emptied > bottle on top of it to drain. so bottle-1 becomes the drain-into for > bottle-2, bottle-3,and so on. that lets me drain about as much out of > most of the bottles as i can. > > i've seen a really neat thing that i keep threatening to get ... ;) > > it's a small rack that allows five or six oil bottles to be up-ended > and drain into another bottle. > so every oil change, you drain ALL the oil out of the bottles you just > used, into another bottle. > eventually, you re-use the drained oil (in the collection bottle). > waste not, want not. :) > > i thought i'd seen it at www.griots.com but can't find it on their web > page now. > doing google for "oil bottle drain", i found one at > http://www.bob2000.com/ for $10.99 plus shipping. > > a clever creative person could make something up like that for > themselves. ;) > maybe out of some leftover pvc piping? > > unca joel |
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