Originally Posted By: Vern_in_IL
Originally Posted By: kohnen
I buy oil in 5 quart containers. When I consume the last of one of the containers, I put the new container on the floor, & prop the "empty" container against the wall with its mouth wedged in the open mouth of the full container. This causes the oil that's left to drain into the full bottle.
I leave it like this while I'm drilling a hole in the filter to better drain it, pouring the old oil from the oil change pan into a large jug for recycling, and cleaning things up - takes about 20 minutes.
Then, depending on what I'm doing that day, I just stop there, or leave it for a few hours.
I've no clue how far ahead I am by doing this, but it just makes sense.
One those large 5 quart containers, there is a lot of oil that gets into that handle hole and you have to "drip dry" the bottle to get the last drop.
I prefer quart bottles because they don't have that stupid cavern running through the handle.
When I tilt the top bottle, I tilt it so that all of the oil comes out of the handle.
I buy the 5 quart bottle because they're almost always (unless there's some sort of weird sale) cheaper than five 1 quart bottles. I'm frugal, but I ain't stoopid!