what to due with empty oil bottles.

[turbo]

this thing gets a lot of use. then once in a while you get rewarded with some 'free' oil. i love this device.

[Ron Lee]

OK, I will bite. What am I supposed to glean from the picture?

[scard]

Originally Posted by Ron Lee

OK, I will bite. What am I supposed to glean from the picture?

Bottle after bottle of drippings.

[Terry Lutz]

A long-time friend passed away last year. Charles Kimball grew up in the Boston area during the 1930s. At that time the Army Air Corps was operating the Curtis O-46 aircraft, which needed fabric work from time to time. When Army had emptied the tins of butyrate dope, they would stack them outside the hangar. Charles would carefully drain the tins of dope down to the last drop. Then he put it in small bottles and sold it to his friends, who were building model airplanes. Then he used that money to learn to fly.

[turbo]

terry, great story. i am sure he was getting a lot of them drippings.

ron, i guess those two other bottles were a little bit of a distraction. you get it now, right.

[aerhed]

When I was doing a lot of twin cessnas, I'd slash the top off the first bottles and invert the following bottles. Then reduce & consolidate. After two IO520's I'd wind up with over a quart left.

[Mel]

Oil bottles are recyclable. Check the bottom. Usually a "2".

After completely draining of course!

[Capflyer]

How many times have you gone into a restaurant and seen the glass Heinz ketchup bottle with a label not is pristine condition? They actually make devices to do what is called in the industry "marry the bottles" to extract the left over ketchup. Hopefully the restaurant then washes and sanitizes the empty bottles before pouring ketchup from the marrying, a pouch or can (which by the way is probably not Heinz) back into the bottles. Worse yet, they just marry one bottle to another. I now even see that some places have figured out how to marry the plastic bottles which is a real problem because the tops are sealed so the inside cannot be sanitized. Ok, so have I grossed everyone out enough?

Not to let this horrific experience go to waste I use a ketchup marry tool routinely to marry my spent oil bottles. From two cases of empties I ended up with 1.5qts. The tool is a simple double female plastic connector I found at one of the retail kitchen stores for about a buck.

[PeteP]

When I was a young teenager growing up in rural Virginia tobacco country I worked out a deal with the local airport manager / crop duster / flight instructor to fuel aircraft and mix and load the chemicals for him to spray in return for flight time. We frequently has relatively small quanitites of checmical (concentrated) left over from spray jobs. Desperate for flying money I started saving the unwanted left overs and found that I could sell them to local small farmers who only needed small quamities. Long story short.... I converted the work, left overs and tips money from pumping gas into a private license on my sixteenth birthday. Not to be outdone I keep up the process until a I was able to buy my first airplane, a Taylorcraft BC12D, in need of a recover job, for $900 in 1964. Now almost 50 years later and retired from the USAF and TWA I still miss those days of 60 cent Avgas and $6 an hour wet for a J3.

[bruceh]

Here is a really slick way to get that last drop out of your oil containers.

Bottom of the Bottle Oil Recovery System