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for all the trouble trying not to spill a little oil, its just not worth it to me,
I set an old aluminum baking pan under the frame and unscrew the filter and let it drain, wipe up the little bit of mess with a paper towel.
a couple of squirts from a spray bottle with dawn dishwashing liquid to get the hard to reach spots and done.
Forget the Coke bottle. Get a roll of foil out of the kitchen, double up a piece about 16"long, stick it under the filter and adjust the edges to make a flat "trough" into your drain pan. No muss, no fuss and no tricky manuevers. Also buy K&N filters, they have a 17MM nut on the end so you can avoid using standard oil filter wrenches.
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