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Back in the 1960's someone told me that if you allow your oil cans (oil came in cans back then) to drain you can get an extra Qt. out of a case, but I never really did that. Fast forward to today. With the price of the oil that we use in my son's 1969 Triumph GT6 race car and the fact that oil now comes in plastic bottles with screw on caps, I finally decided to do something about recovering that extra Qt. of oil. I was cleaning up the empty oil bottles in garage and this idea popped into my head. I grabbed my soldering gun, clamped two caps in the vise and started to weld. I used the security band the keeps the cap on the bottle as a "filler rod". Then drilled a hole through the two caps and used shim punches to put holes in the cardboard seal disks and I had myself a bottle drain fixture! I will let each bottle drain for about a day.