Yep, I've been using Ziplock bags for years because I like to change my oil in the garage and I hate to get oil on my epoxy painted floor of my pit. I am "car crazy" as they say on the Speed Channel and had a concrete 41 inch X 5ft X 5 ft ( I have to hunch over except under the H3) pit dug in the garage with metal screens when not in use. Six years ago it ran about $1,800 (without the screens) to do and makes working under the car so much easier. When I want to escape the wife, I take my Budweiser down there and disappear. If I did it again though, I would put in a sand trap drain in the bottom they tried to talk me into. I wouldn't recommend doing this if you have kids and our golden retreiver thinks it's his second home!
I also put down a large aluminium Walmart drip pan and use medical gloves. Ziplock works great with the H3. Years ago there was a lot in the press about washing your parts in that old leaded gas and getting lead and nickel in your system from contaiminated engine oil - even though leaded gas is gone I like the clean feeling afterwards of using gloves.
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