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Oct 28, 2003 21 Replies

I used to have one like that, but I didn't have a very good experience. The outside always winds up getting oil spilled on it, and when you go to bring it someplace the oil gets all over the trunk of your car. In addition it doesn't hold very much, so you have to bring it somewhere for disposal every other oil change. If you have multiple vehicles to deal with this gets old.

Recently I just got a basic plastic oil drain pan, and pour the oil into milk jugs. Or antifreeze jugs are even better (because the curbside recycling won't take them). If you are reasonably careful with the pouring the outsides of the jugs stay perfectly clean, and you can collect a years worth or oil and dispose of it all at once, rather than bringing the nasty oily pan/reservoir somewhere every few months. The only advantage of the pan/reservoir is the plastic screen to catch the drainplug (or hold the oil filter to drain). But you can just find a screen to put over any oil pan if you like.

Obviously I've given this way too much thought.

Harry

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:28:56 -0600, snipped-for-privacy@nospam.xxx (jjs) shared the following:

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, my brother. :-)

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