What do you drain your oil into?
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5 gallon bucket .
1 gallon PE jugs. (WS squirter juice and the like)
Oil drain pan then it goes into a recycle jug.
My oil drains into a 5 gallon pan, then into 1 gallon water jugs for recycle.
12 quart drain pan with a spout. When it is full I take it to AAP and dump in their recycle container. I also drain my old oil filters the best I can into the pan and when I get enough filters collected I put them in the oil filter recycle can at a Tires Plus near my house.
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I have a 5 gal container, which allows me to tote the oil to work where they allow us to dump the oil for recycling.
With the pretzels, or without?
Seriously, I just put it in the same jugs that the new oil came in.
Seriously, I just put it in the same jugs that the new oil came in.
If it comes in 4-5 Quart bottles. back in that.
If not, 1 Gallom Milk jugs.
Put them at the curb, mark 'em "used motor oil" & they take 'em.
Get this - I saved some up, so this was picked up last week...........
- 5 Gallon Amsoil ATF jug filled with oil
- 1 Gallon Amsoil ASL jug filled with oil
- 5 Quart PP jug filled with oil
- 4 Gallon milk jugs filled with oil
- 1 Quart Amsoil 20w-50 bottle filled with HD Chaincase oil
- 1 Quart Amsoil Severe Gear 75w-140 bottle filled with HD Tranny oil
......Wonder what the recycle guy thought when he picked-up all of that oil.
If not, 1 Gallom Milk jugs.
Put them at the curb, mark 'em "used motor oil" & they take 'em.
Get this - I saved some up, so this was picked up last week...........
- 5 Gallon Amsoil ATF jug filled with oil
- 1 Gallon Amsoil ASL jug filled with oil
- 5 Quart PP jug filled with oil
- 4 Gallon milk jugs filled with oil
- 1 Quart Amsoil 20w-50 bottle filled with HD Chaincase oil
- 1 Quart Amsoil Severe Gear 75w-140 bottle filled with HD Tranny oil
......Wonder what the recycle guy thought when he picked-up all of that oil.
The garbage company supplies a drain pan/container that they exchange. it works good.
Black 12L oil drain container.
http://www.partsamerica.com/productdetail.aspx?MfrCode=BLI&MfrPartNumber=11838&CategoryCode=3321
I have used it for at least 5 years without one problem.
I have used it for at least 5 years without one problem.
I've got a 10 quart drain pan with a spout. From there into whatever bottles I have handy (last time it was 2 liter pop bottles).
I'm playing around with getting a brand new 5 gallon bucket, and mounting a spigot at the bottom, then cutting a round hole in the lid and putting screen over the hole. That way it's something that's easy to fill and easier to drain.
I'm playing around with getting a brand new 5 gallon bucket, and mounting a spigot at the bottom, then cutting a round hole in the lid and putting screen over the hole. That way it's something that's easy to fill and easier to drain.
I have 3 2.5 Gal. Empty Rotella jugs I got from work.
The problem is that it is not deep enough and the oil splashes out of it. I hate it.
I have one of those round steel 5 gallon gas cans, I just put all the motor oil in there when I get 5 gallon, I take to Autozone or Advance auto. Any 5 galllon gas can would work, its easy for them to pour and it saves trips.
I drain it into a black 8 quart rectangular plastic pan or a 6 qt aluminum turkey pan. Never found any pretzels in either of them 
Of course the oil drains to a drain pan first. Then I put all the used oil in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. For the oil filters I place them in a cut open milk gallon jug. I save up all the automotive waste plus other household waste (batteries, fluorescent lamps, etc...) and take them to the hazardous waste facility.
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