Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
When I was a kid we made an 'oil can tree' out of sheet metal and welding rods. This sat in the oil change bay at the Texaco I worked in. As we finished we would prop the cans (that's right-cans!) on the tree to drain into a gallon jug.
My oil thirsty car then was a Triumph TR-4 that fouled plugs it burnt so much oil. Myself and others used this method for decades.
My dad had a ESSO Station from '55-'79 and he did a similar thing. After every OCI we did on a customers vehicle, we'd tip the cans over into larger 1 gal cans(of oil) and collect the oil for those in need of cheap oil(or topoff).
Dad tapped a spout into the cans so he could pour oil into another qt can and add it to an old beater that came in, in need! It was free he said!
We used a section of a gutter. Ran it off the work bench tilted slightly and let the oil from the so called "empties" collect into a gallon bottle via a funnel. It was amazing how much oil would collect in cans and bottles, that would otherwise end up in the garbage. Nothing went to waste.
Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
When I was a kid we made an 'oil can tree' out of sheet metal and welding rods. This sat in the oil change bay at the Texaco I worked in. As we finished we would prop the cans (that's right-cans!) on the tree to drain into a gallon jug.
My oil thirsty car then was a Triumph TR-4 that fouled plugs it burnt so much oil. Myself and others used this method for decades.
My dad had a ESSO Station from '55-'79 and he did a similar thing. After every OCI we did on a customers vehicle, we'd tip the cans over into larger 1 gal cans(of oil) and collect the oil for those in need of cheap oil(or topoff).
Dad tapped a spout into the cans so he could pour oil into another qt can and add it to an old beater that came in, in need! It was free he said!
We used a section of a gutter. Ran it off the work bench tilted slightly and let the oil from the so called "empties" collect into a gallon bottle via a funnel. It was amazing how much oil would collect in cans and bottles, that would otherwise end up in the garbage. Nothing went to waste.