01-14-2016, 02:27 AM
(01-13-2016, 08:29 AM)Mayhem Wrote: When my Dad had his mechanic shop, he had a pan that sat on a stand, with a spring-loaded valve on the base. When on the stand under the vehicle, the valve was closed. When placed onto the adaptor, which screwed onto a 44 gal drum, the valve opened.
That takes me back...the place where I worked when I first left school near the middle of last century had one of those oil drain pans. Every now and then, a bit of gasket, or an o-ring off an oil filter, would find it's way into the pan and get stuck under the rubber seal while it was draining. The first you would know of this was when a pool of oil grew around the base of the stand next time it was used. Given that the base was about 20" diameter, by the time you saw the oil, you already had about a gallon on the floor under the stand. I'm liking the ball valve idea much better!
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