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Geo-TH,In

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After I service my old tractors and lawnmowers.
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I can't help myself. I want every last drop of oil so I use a funnel and old bottle to hold the few drops.

When I change the differentials on my Mule, I put the used 75-90 limited slip gear lub in an old soap bottle. The oil is clean looking, It has a few metal particles in it. Metal particles settle to the bottom of the bottle.

Then I mix the clean used 75-90 GL with oil from empty bottles and make my chainsaw oil.

My electric chainsaws run slower and all I care about is making the oil thin enough to get oil on the chain.

My chain lasts longer than the teeth on the chain. I file the chain before I use it to make nice wood chips not sawdust.

What tips do you have to share about being cheap/frugal ?

RK no longer handles Harvest King $2/qt oil.
Where can I buy Harvest King oil or $2/qt oil?? I'm cheap....
 
George. Im afraid you may be hard pressed in finding $2 a bottle of oil in these times anyway. Not to say we may see it again but I doubt it. Ive seen it double and triple that cost. The world is changing faster than we care for it to. You may want to think about changing with it sir. Wingnut
 
I knew a man that worked at a service station.
His idea of changing his oil was to use the oil he drained out of cars at service station and put it in his car that used a quart every 100 miles..

Now is that cheap??
 
I drain my oil bottles in the same manner. I use the oil in my pump oil can for general use and on my sawmill blade.And yes I have been called cheap.
 
Back when oil was sold in the round quart steel or later paper can, filling stations in my area had a container where they tipped the empty can with spout still attached, to do just that. I don't know what they did with the oil....had to be collecting it or why bother.
 
Unless you tip the bottle you are draining there will be a couple of drops hanging from the bottom (which is now at the top), as the bottom usually concave and a couple of drops will cling to it and not run down.
 
I heard a local young man always saving those left over drops when he worked at a filling station. Used that oil to change oil in his own vehicle, dirt and all that came with it sitting out next to the gas pumps.

Remember, older cars often required that quart of oil when gassing up at full service stations.
 
Some might say life is to short for that kind of nonsense. Not that Im wasteful.

Vito
 
Use it for oiling roller chain on haybine, baler etc. I suspect most on this site are old enough to remember, so tight he squeezes a nickel til the buffalo $h!ts.

Ken
 
My family did the same thing yearssssssssss ago, why waste good oil and it cost NOTHING to let it drain WHY NOT do it ???

HOWEVER If a person doesn't want to take the time to do it or refuses to do so for whatever reason THATS HIS RIGHT WHICH I SUPPORT and I will do as I please

John T NOT a believer in waste, especially when NOT to waste takes such little time effort at basically NO cost I enjoy doing such things myself but as always TO EACH THEIR OWN is fine by me
 
I would service a customer's truck years ago that held 54 quarts of oil and he brought his own oil,in quart cans!! I would clamp a piece of angle iron in the vise and drain the cans into a jug. Used it for bar oil on my saw. I never bought bar oil for a long time, then started buying it. To me the only advantage was it didn't fling off quite as much.
 
My grandfather owned a few gas stations and they did that.Wasn't plastic bottles back then,and sold it to people cheap that had oil burning cars.It was all full service back then.
 
I do that with the hand cleaner at work. And we go through quite a bit of it.

We buy Orange Goop at HF, comes in a gallon jug with a pump.

The pump leaves quite a bit in the bottom, so I made a threaded aluminum adapter to couple the 2 bottles together. Let it sit overnight, almost no waste!
 
Good morning John, hope alls well your way. I have done the same trick for yearssssssss lol I AGREE WITH YOU it takes a longggggggggg time to collect a quart of what otherwise would be thrown away, but it cost me nothing,,,,,,,,, saves me money,,,,,,,,,takes no more effort than throwing it in the trash can,,,,,,,,and I enjoy doing it,,,,,,,,,, so why not ??? Of course I respect anyones choice if they choose to toss THE little oil that remains away TO EACH THEIR OWN

Best wishes come see us at Florida Flywheelers

John T
 
I always use a gallon milk jug [ thoroughly cleaned]. The opening allows the qt bottle to set inside so insert and walk away. As is pointed out, it is free but I never use it for anything critical or expensive.
 

Back when I used bottled oil exclusively I advantaged draining 8 to gal a year out of those. One year I hit 15.

ATF is not worth it little is left...

On a diesel 15/40 jugs a couple oz can be recover from each jug.

It would make you mad as ell if you knew how much you paid for the convenience of oil in a qt can are a gal.
 
(quoted from post at 07:58:41 01/22/22) Use it for oiling roller chain on haybine, baler etc. I suspect most on this site are old enough to remember, so tight he squeezes a nickel til the buffalo $h!ts.

Ken
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The Canuck version is "house smells like beaver p!$$ from pinching nickels" lol
 
Take two oil container caps. Put them top to top and plastic weld them together (a soldering pencil and some removed security rings from the same containers are used as welding rod) drill a 1/4 hole through the caps. Now you can screw a fresh emptied bottle to the bottle below with much less balancing and spillage, plus no dust gets in !!!
I did that while a mechanic and used the oil for oil changes for many years. Jim
 
In high school I worked at an American station that had an oil drain cabinet.It had a can piercer,to poke a hole in the edge of the the top.The push in spout hole always had a ridge so all the oil never ran out.It held 20 quart cans,and had doors to keep the dirt out.It had an oil can crusher mounted next to it.It made about a gallon a week.
 
A quart = 946 ml
One ml = 20 drops

So the answer to your question.:
It takes 18,920 drops to make a quart. lol.
John,
When you are born with a cheap gene, you can't help yourself.
 
I do drain them to a point. I lay them on their side so the drips from the concave bottom will run off then tip them up to get those also. Though I don't have many bottles to drain with barrel oil. I do set the barrels up on end with a side slant so the oil will drain off the bottom end when I can't get it all out with the pump. And yes I tilt the barrel near the end so the pump can get all it can. then I set them up to drain into an open 5gallon pail. The top of the barrel wiped off first with it tight to the pail keeps the dirt out from the old milkhouse being tight it is clean enough to use in engines. I get about a gallon out of each barrel. I have straightened old nails and used them over on jobs as well. Old steel billboard signs for shed siding. Now painted over with that aluminum tar paint.
 
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