Plastic bottle funnel

Step 6 Alternate materials and thoughts

This Instructable was a dramatization. Any similarity to actual events is...

Just kidding. I really did need to whip up a funnel But i ended up using part of a floor lamp. I recognize that most people probably don't have a bin of lap parts ready to become funnels though so the pen idea filled in as a bit more universal solution.

But if you ever are throwing a lamp away (please sell it, give it away, donate it, or at least recycling as much as possible) save some parts like these threaded but hollow pieces. One came in handy for me!

The fit was so tight that i had to use pliers to put the "spout" on the bottle cap.

Be sure to recycle any scraps you cut off of your bottle. And try to only kill a pen if it is dead or doesn't work well.

If you make a few of these with slightly different sized bottles they could nest. The best part is that the bottle caps are probably the same size so you can swap a small diameter pen for a larger piece of a lamp spout to your funnel to suit your need.