I picked up another plastic drum for fuel storage. It was used for olive oil and was drained but not washed out. Rather than fiddle with water or solvents I decided to remove as much of the olive oil as possible. The drum sat in my one shed for a couple weeks, so nearly all the residual oil was in the bottom around the outside of the drum. I thought it would be fine if there was a way to wipe it real well with a rag. Poking around the shed I found a piece of plastic pipe, rags and a spool of string trimmer line.
The string trimmer line was fed down through the pipe double and what came out the other end became a snare to grab the rags. Changing the rags was as easy. Just a matter of letting some slack in the line from the other end. It took only a couple minutes and 3 or 4 clean rags to mop it dry. I'm not concerned about any small amount of film the olive oil may have left behind.
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The string trimmer line was fed down through the pipe double and what came out the other end became a snare to grab the rags. Changing the rags was as easy. Just a matter of letting some slack in the line from the other end. It took only a couple minutes and 3 or 4 clean rags to mop it dry. I'm not concerned about any small amount of film the olive oil may have left behind.
