Wiki page on oil collecting tips.

[Julian]

I have a couple of ideas to disseminate to make oil collections easer, and less messy, but they are probably not enough to populate a page on there own.

They are ...

Cutting a Prep tub to act as a lid for a 20 ltr drum, to prevent water filling it where the top's been punctured by the cook.

Using a large seed tray (without drainage) as a save-all in which to transport drums and cubies

and

Carrying a kit of old tops, caps and bungs for when the supplier has lost them.


Other people must have there own tricks to make life a bit easer when collecting ... fancy sharing to pad out the page?

[Head Womble]

I have a couple of ideas to disseminate to make oil collections easer, and less messy, but they are probably not enough to populate a page on there own.

They are ...

Cutting a Prep tub to act as a lid for a 20 ltr drum, to prevent water filling it where the top's been punctured by the cook.

Using a large seed tray (without drainage) as a save-all in which to transport drums and cubies

and

Carrying a kit of old tops, caps and bungs for when the supplier has lost them.


Other people must have there own tricks to make life a bit easer when collecting ... fancy sharing to pad out the page?

I also use a seed tray as a boot liner, they do a great job, but if you do spill oil the drums slide from side to side round corners,
I've for a long time thought about adding some cross bracing to hold them in place, one day, one day.

[Julian]

I don't suppose you have ever seen a galley stove onboard a sea going ship.  For rough weather they can install flat bars that inter lock around the pans.  Bottom one has slots cut half way through, open ends facing up and the top bars arranged at 90° to the top have slots cut half way through facing down.

They slot together forming and adjustable grid ... I had similar ideas.  If you survive the BBB, and when you get out of hospital, you could make one as a recuperation project.

[Head Womble]

I don't suppose you have ever seen a galley stove onboard a sea going ship.  For rough weather they can install flat bars that inter lock around the pans.  Bottom one has slots cut half way through, open ends facing up and the top bars arranged at 90° to the top have slots cut half way through facing down.

They slot together forming and adjustable grid ... I had similar ideas.  If you survive the BBB, and when you get out of hospital, you could make one as a recuperation project.

Funny you should mention the galley stove, we had a tour of the ship that Ryan (my son) went on last month,
I was looking at the stove pondering the same thought.

As I'm not long for this world, would you please forfill my dreams and build "the ultamate oil tin tray" in my memory.

Tony, smell cheak plase 

[Rossey]

I hate those metal tins always leak,

I now take 25lt cubies and a large funnel with me to collections = no mess 

[Rotary-Motion]

all mine have 60 ltr clamptops now...

and i guess im lucky that no containers go in my cars.

they go in next doors van

[julianf]

As mentioned the other day -

Cling film.  Wrap the top of the tin in it, and its good to go.

Added bonus is that you can leave them outside when you get home, without the rain getting into them.

I have a hard boot liner in the back of the disco, with a bit of sawdust in the bottom of it - just stops evreything getting sticky (id rather dusty than sticky any day)

[Julian]

Getting some varying opinions here.

I far prefer collecting tins than cubies.  Over full cubies with lids that don't fit tightly are a real pain.

From recent experience collecting cliptops for Womble, they can get really messy took me longer to clean them than collect the oil!

In the past I've had wheelie bins at suppliers premises and decanted into drums from them.

Oh, and loads of carpet off cuts over the top of plastic in the boot/load space work well.

Julian would you mind supplying some photos ... a shot of your boot liner and a tin with a Clingfilm top.  (could add the cling film to the "collection kit" idea)

I can get a shot of Wombles cliptops.

All other ideas still welcome, keep them comming.

[julianf]

I actually took some snaps of the cling-tins last time you mentioned it, but i think theyre still on the camera.

The boot liner in the landrover is a commercial one, but my partner made me a fitted vinyl unit for the golf, from some plasticised fabric, which saved the carpet many many times over (not from 'total loss' spillages, but from your usual oil soaked cardboard outers etc)

[Julian]

I know people will know what a boot liner is, but photos, if you can manage them, really pep the page up.

Ah, you mention oil soaked cardboard, I don't get much so haven't tried, but I'd imagine it would make quite good fire lighters ... can anyone confirm?

[Dickjotec]

I have thick cardboard in the back of the truck, it soaks oil and is easy to chuck out. I have a Bungy that I fix round the drums to stop them moving around. I fix the top to a clamp ring  of the clip tops I leave with a piece of thin chain so, hopefully, they don't forget to put it back on. I leave a stick in the drum calibrated in litres to avoid any disagreement on quantity.
Most important, IMO, is some old towels and a bin bag to clean up if I spill some oil in their store.
Oil soaked card is brilliant for starting fires.
Dick

[Julian]

Thanks, Dick.

Picking up some cool ideas here ... any chance of a photo of your measuring stick in a drum, please?  Come to that oil soaked cardboard too?

[Julian]

Julian and Dick ... any chance of those photos please?

[Dickjotec]

Sorry, missed the request first time. Will do today all being well.
Dick

[Julian]

Ta muchly.

Julian?