I bought a collapsible bucket that fits into narrow spaces when I need to drain plumbing systems
Again, one of those things I should've bought 15 years ago. I just didn't know these even exist. This is the second most exited I've even been about a bucket only narrowly topped by the time I found two for free.
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Life hack I figured out, impromptu bucket, for oil changes and draining fluids. Get a cardboard box that fits and line it with a garbage bag. Drain oil into bag. Tie up up bag and put box and bag into another bag for transport. Or you can cut the corner of full bag to drain into a jug with out making a mess or funnels. Hell got no funnel? Pour the clean oil into a clean bag and cut the corner of and fill engine.
That's what I do if I need to carry extra gasoline around too. Just get a few bags for thickness, pump it right in there, and tie the top.
Not gona lie brother, that's fucking wild. They don't start to dissolve on you?
Pretty sure it's a joke. Might be a reference to some video of Appalachia US during a hurricane season of a couple pumping into grocery bags. There was fear of a gas shortage
Holy shit, how have I not realized that could be done. Thanks man!
I had to do my trany solenoids like a few months back and got desperate cause I had no drain pan. Desperation is the mother of invention.
How often does this happen to you?
Well I owned as of 2 days ago, a ram with a cummins so... alot more than I'd ever liked. Hope the chevy will keep me from crawling on my back on the regular.
Yeah if you have to improvise, sounds like you know what you're doing. I have a Honda that has horrible oil filter placement. They make a funnel specifically for it to magnetically attach to the frame and redirect the flow once the filter is removed. Otherwise it dribbles all the way down the frame. The funnel was way overpriced but it was either that or waste a ton of trash bags.
Yeah that sounds like a pay once, cry once situation. More than once I've spent cussing under a truck or car with oil dribbling down my arm trying to get it to not make a mess. All in vain regardless. Here's a free one, dishwasher powdered detergent is the best for pulling oil stains out of your driveway.
I used liquid laundry detergent and a stiff brush with decent success. I'll try the powder if it happens again. Thanks!
So a bag.
Well, I'm a mereological nihilist so it doesn't actually even matter.
All buckets are bags with structure.
"This, is a bag."
"Dear god."
"There's more."
The bag is neat and everything but let's talk about Knipex
That's a topic I have plenty to say about.
A man of culture i see
I’ve used these when we’re were in Scouts canoeing in Minnesota to collect our water from the middle of the lakes.. but I’ve never thought about using one like this.. I feel silly and now I’m excited about a bucket too.
Quite dull. Well done.
Years ago I got a collapsing portable dog water bowl for when we went out on walks. It's not exactly practical to carry a normal bowl or let them drink from our bottles.
Anyway it took me about a year of fumbling about with bottles and little containers before I realised I could just use the dog bowl. DOH. (I bought them a new one after I used theirs)
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Praise the reassurance bucket. Everything is automatically better when in the cold, metallic embrace of the bucket.
If it needs to collapse to get into the space, how do you get it out once it is full of water?
Usually it won't fill up, it just there to catch whatever is in the pipes. Even if it spills some at least you contained whatever was got in the bucket. It is also possible to retighten whatever fitting was draining, empty the bucket and put it back to drain again.
Source: a guy that desperately needs this bucket
Huh.
technically you weren't excited about a bucket when you found two for free. But I can respect the dull drive-by bragging.
This person tries to get on flights with their clothes stuffed into buckets.
Seems more exciting than a free ordinary bucket. Unless maybe you're a walrus?
Those are cool to have. I've owned a couple of them over the years. But I don't currently have a bucket. I do have a couple of crunchable pocket dog water dishes though.
Very fucking cool