The dumbest thing we've done, yet...

I have a PA28-180 with a quick drain on the bottom of the Lycoming.
You can take off the lower cowl to drain the oil -or- you can attach a
flexible hose to the quick drain and route the oil to a bucket.

That's the same set-up we have.

I had the hose slip off the quickdrain and dump about 2 quarts of oil
into the bottom of the cowling, front wheelpant, and eventually the
hangar floor. What a mess to cleanup.

A little bit of oil looks like a LOT of oil. I can't imagine 2 QUARTS on
the floor.

I spilled maybe a pint once, and it took an entire roll of paper towels.

(We won't talk about the time I dumped an entire quart of dark brown wood
stain on the carpet in the meeting room at the inn.... Although, amazingly,
it eventually did come out with repeated shampooing with alcohol.)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"