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