Posted: 5/16/2017 9:55:04 PM EDT
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It's already been invented?
Had a vision to prevent oil running down your arm while taking off the oil filter but some dumb ass already made something. |
| Pull drain plug, crack filter loose, let it all run out while I'm checking all the other fluids. Come back remove filter the rest of the way and continue on. I haven't had oil make it past my knuckles in years. On big truck filters I do the same, except I punch a hole in the bottom with a screw driver also.. makes them a couple pounds lighter. |
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Pull drain plug, crack filter loose, let it all run out while I'm checking all the other fluids. Come back remove filter the rest of the way and continue on. I haven't had oil make it past my knuckles in years. On big truck filters I do the same, except I punch a hole in the bottom with a screw driver also.. makes them a couple pounds lighter. Just thinking of one less tool and one handed to use. May nor help the average guy that does it 2 or 3 ti.es a year but more for the everyday user. |
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Ooh, ooh, I know the answer to this one. Invent a time machine so that you can go backwards in time and kill his grandfather. Then return to yesterday and invent the other thing yourself. 
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Yeah. I though of that too. What do I do with my 93 ford i6, where the filter hangs horizontal on the left of the block? Flipping it over would just result in it hanging horizontal on the right side.  Quoted:
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Simple. Turn the car over. Easy peasy.
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So don't turn it all the way over. Quoted:
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Simple. Turn the car over. Easy peasy. 
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Same here. I had an idea years ago where window tint on cars could be darkened and lightened with the flip of a switch. That shit already exists. Not sure if it did back when I first thought of it though. A screen, like a net. Pile several nets on top each other, fill with litter. When time to clean, just lift off first layer of netting and let the poop and clumps come up and the other cleanse litter would sift through for the next go around. Well fuck me. They already invented that cat shit thing too. |
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And your also a 4teener. Go sit in the corner, until called upon.
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He invented the red shop rag that you can tie around your forearm? Damn, and I'm a millennial 
Eta. Clarity. Stupid ac. |
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Pull drain plug, crack filter loose, let it all run out while I'm checking all the other fluids. Come back remove filter the rest of the way and continue on. I haven't had oil make it past my knuckles in years. On big truck filters I do the same, except I punch a hole in the bottom with a screw driver also.. makes them a couple pounds lighter. |
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Yeah.
I used cardboard circles sized to my rims with a hole to hold by to spray tire dressing, mess free, for years. Then I thought about making a handle or something, was there a market? Turns out there are several..... Bah! |
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Pretty much. Just an easier way to punch a hole. I always use a screwdriver and hammer to do it too. Just thinking of one less tool and one handed to use. May nor help the average guy that does it 2 or 3 ti.es a year but more for the everyday user. Quoted:
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Pull drain plug, crack filter loose, let it all run out while I'm checking all the other fluids. Come back remove filter the rest of the way and continue on. I haven't had oil make it past my knuckles in years. On big truck filters I do the same, except I punch a hole in the bottom with a screw driver also.. makes them a couple pounds lighter. Just thinking of one less tool and one handed to use. May nor help the average guy that does it 2 or 3 ti.es a year but more for the everyday user. You think finding out your idea is already being made is bad. Try coming up with an idea and then shelving it for lack of funds, resources, market, whatever. Only to find it being produced by someone else 5 yrs later. |
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Pretty much. Just an easier way to punch a hole. I always use a screwdriver and hammer to do it too. Just thinking of one less tool and one handed to use. May nor help the average guy that does it 2 or 3 ti.es a year but more for the everyday user. |
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Know how I know you dont own a Jeep 4.0? Quoted:
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Pull drain plug, crack filter loose, let it all run out while I'm checking all the other fluids. Come back remove filter the rest of the way and continue on. I haven't had oil make it past my knuckles in years. On big truck filters I do the same, except I punch a hole in the bottom with a screw driver also.. makes them a couple pounds lighter. |
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I just unscrew the filter until it falls out, lands in the oil pan splashing burning hot oil on my face as I yell a few cuss words, then I realize the drain plug is under my creeper wedged against one of the wheels, and my wrench is AWOL, and I left the new oil and filter inside the car so I can't get to it without rolling back out from under the car.
well, that's just how it usually goes :) |
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Same here. I had an idea years ago where window tint on cars could be darkened and lightened with the flip of a switch. That shit already exists. Not sure if it did back when I first thought of it though. Quoted:
Same here. I had an idea years ago where window tint on cars could be darkened and lightened with the flip of a switch. That shit already exists. Not sure if it did back when I first thought of it though. "At one time, way back in the golden age of inventing, ideas were worth as much as a dime a dozen. These days, they are worth less than a dime a bale, in ten-bale lots. An idea becomes useful only when and if it can get converted into some marketable product that in fact ends up solving end user needs. If you cannot demonstrate end users getting off on your idea, it has no value. It ain’t creative unless it sells." - Don Lancaster |
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Pretty much. Just an easier way to punch a hole. I always use a screwdriver and hammer to do it too. Just thinking of one less tool and one handed to use. May nor help the average guy that does it 2 or 3 ti.es a year but more for the everyday user. |
| I too have experienced the pain of investing time and effort into an invention only to have your dreams crushed by some smart ass Patent Attorney. Devoted a good portion of my life developing a Linear Thermoplastic Fluid Transportation System ..... only to be told it's just a hose !! |
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Ooh, ooh, I know the answer to this one. Invent a time machine so that you can go backwards in time and kill his grandfather. Then return to yesterday and invent the other thing yourself. If OP tries to make a time machine to go back and reverse what I did, I'll just go back and tweek his machine so that it turns him into a fly.
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Quarter turns are bad. Always results in a smashed door on the right side. Then , I have to let chicks in on my side. And that's not cool. Quoted:
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Simple. Turn the car over. Easy peasy. 
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