I feel you guys, the oil pan either works or its a wash, not worth the mess. I snagged some no name one years back and had the shallow basin issue. I'm like, where is my razor knife and remove a good size piece from its surface. Now, well no problem for years, it can take a deluge of oil and not splatter back out, guess the remaing part of the surface is functions like a splatter guard and a ledge to place and drain the old filter.

I hated when Craftsman went to the rounded handle ratchets years ago etc. They were cool futuristic in appearance with a highly polished smooth cylindrical surface, and well greasy hands and tough bolts tend to cause undue grip slippage with that handle config. I will always buy a textured rectangular confi handle.



El modifio una el oil pano

 

I have about the same one as Zippy (Greg) but mine also has a holder for the filter to drain. Perhaps mine has a different angle for drainage because I don't have a splash or drain problem. It also big enough when draining transmission pan's .

 

My drain pan looks like Zippy's, but it was not covered, wide open. I'm happy with it.

And as for Harbor Freight, I noticed as Sears was having problems, the quality of tools from HF seemed to both increase in quality and cost. All my HF sockets and ratchets were bought as Sears and Craftsman switched to mostly Chinese manufacturing. And Sears bit themselves when they changed the Craftsman warranty to "we give you a refurb BEFORE pulling a new tool from the shelf". HF, broken lifetime tool, you get a replacement lifetime tool. Done! And last I knew, still that way.