Art & Inspiration Aesthetically Pleasing Oil Drip Pans

Cheap plastic boot trays from Menards. 14" X 28" $2.99

https://www.menards.com/main/floori...11729/p-1642874285315783-c-6530.htm?exp=false

 

IM TRYING

 

I have a very absorbent garage floor. Works great and no maintenance.

 

I don't like the floor of my trailer getting dirty even though it is oil resistant, so I purchased a black, oil absorbent mat from Summitt that I keep rolled up in the trailer closet for those occasions my drippy, damn, dune buggy goes in there.

 

LOL!
Good one.

Ben

 

Just wanted to close the loop on this one. I appreciate everyone's great suggestions; I'm not sure why I never thought about just looking on Amazon for something like this, but I settled on these black mats. They look much better and should hide the oil pretty well, and were less than $20.

2" gaffer tape would be the perfect way to stick this down, I just used duct tape here.

Gonna have to pardon the messy workbench today...

 

I’ve been using white washer/dryer square pans for years. Home Depot I think. EZ cleanup.

 

This is how things work around here at my place.

"Management" lays claim to the interior of the house. I happily live amongst all the feminine touches that this entails. It is her realm, and I am appreciative that I get to hang around in it with her.

The garage, however, is a totally different box of frogs. That is my domain, and if oily pieces of cardboard are doing their job on the floor, that is how it shall be. You got to learn how to share and how to live well together......

And by the way, the most aesthetically pleasing oil drip pan is a clean one, but I don't own any of those......

 

I use a tray from the bottom of a large dog crate. You can buy them off Amazon for not that much money. I fill it with sawdust but any absorbent material would do.

 

I have a drip pan from Napa. Probably can buy it a dozen other places. I think it cost me $10 or so years back, now $16.

 

I get some mdf board at the lumber shop in my town... They are sometimes defective from the factory or scratched, they are used above and below the pile of mdf to protect them and be able to tie them down for transport. The best thing is that some are quite good and cost very little.

 

A metal drip pan from anywhere, with a liner of absorbant pads meant to go on a bed for incontinence. The pads fit the pans perfectly, when they get saturated just toss 'em and replace. We used them in the hospital, I was a nurse in ICU. I don't know if that's any more attractive than a sheet of oil soaked cardboard, but it's cheap and it works great.

 

If we look far enough back, not everything was built to be perfectly sealed. It may not even be possible to stop all leaks without extensive modifications to install newer types of seals.

 

I use a low sided aluminum drip pan that's large enough to hold my oil drain container just in case I spill. I fill it with ~1-2" of cat litter to absorb any oil that gets out. Works like a charm...

 

The motor in my A is still set up as Father Henry intended: to keep the wishbones amply and automatically lubed.

 

There it is, while at different times, I have used both but never thought of a combo.

O-T-O-H Management of the operation need have either respect for my supervision,
or Keep the intruders from any unauthorized wandering.

 

You need to make something like this, as tall or large as you need but with a grate top. Oil goes into the bottom and you walk on the grate oil free...ish.