Oil collecting made a little easier
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Don't forget the towel and old kitchen spray bottle full of soap/water mixture for cleaning your hands, works a treat and you can hang the spray bottle up in the back of the car using the handle.
Now I also always carry a big funnel and a jug with me. It's got me out of trouble so many times.
A simple trick to seal a can if the red plastic lid is missing is to push out the spout with a blunt instrument (screwdriver), put a bit of clingfilm over the hole and then pop the spout back in.
For years I struggled with storing cubies because they won't stack and if you try, they crush and oil gets forced out all over the floor. So I came up with this method that means you can store 36 full cubies in the footprint of an IBC without any of them being crushed. Each layer is supported by four lengths of 40x40mm timber with a sheet of polycarbonate on top
This is the collection kit, card on floor, rubber gloves, towel, spare tops, bin bags.
This is two views of the contents stick. It fits in e drum and is marked with cable ties. For the places that find English hard I leave a card showing how much I pay for the quantities then it is easy to show them the level on the stick and the amount that it equates to
Carrying a kit of old tops, caps and bungs for when the supplier has lost them. Oh, and loads of carpet off cuts over the top of plastic in the boot/load space work well.
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)
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
If you've got an estate car you can make a couple of nice big boot liners or bunds by cutting about a foot off of each side of an IBC bottle.
