Fill Four Containers at Once

I dislike buying new bottles of spring water in the store so wanted to devise a way to fill the empty bottles with refill water I get from the grocery store. I call it "the container-filling udder", but it's really not a romantic name. How about "the four-container filler"? ;) You can use the system for beverages other than water. Iced tea, lemonade and carbonated beverages (as long as you don't mind the fizz dissipating) are other good candidates for this system.

Step 1 Drill Four Holes and Epoxy in the Spouts

I drilled four holes in the bottom of a flat-bottomed container. The red circles you see are plastic cake decorating nozzles I had from a project I did long ago. After drilling the holes, I put a small ring of the two-part epoxy around the hole and pushed down on the cake decorating nozzles until they were firmly set.

Comments

[blodefood]

Why not have a single bottle that you refill when you need to?

[Sharaiah]

Just wanted to add, for health sake, that you should not re-use water bottles more than twice as they can leech harmful chemicals from the plastic into the water which you then ingest.

[pedleyfigg]

Does anyone know is epoxy 'food safe'?

[jrh065]

Call it the Four-Funnel!

[meralgia]

Thanks, cokecola, for your input. The problem with putting the whole thing in the sink is that the bottom of the sink isn't level, and containers have been known to wiggle more than if they were on a flat surface.

[cokecola]

Just put the whole thing in the sink and if it overflows let it overflow.

[Kozz]

Nice work. I could imagine the potential for spills. Maybe your next version would have epoxied bottle caps with holes drilled in them instead of spouts? Provided your bottles use the same kinds of caps, i could see the opportunity to screw them on one by one, fill, and avoid the mess. You've still got to contend with possible overflow or overfill, but at least you can tip the entire assembly to deal with that.