Somewhat off-topic.... but perhaps entertaining in a goofy sort of way....
I usually am full of advice to folks to make certain you only remove/install/fool-with the glass gascolator bowl after they've placed a couple pieces of corrugated cardboard or old towels on the floor beneath it because "You WILL someday drop it and it'll break!"
So...yesterday,.. with this very message thread recently in mind.... I took my glass gascolator bowl off my '39 Ford tractor to clean out the rust/sediment it clearly had in the bottom. (This is an actual bowl-shaped glass, appears to be made out of Pyrex.)
I took it over to the grass and slung the thing upside down to shake out the sludge. Then I took a paper towel and began to wipe it out thoroughly...and dang it! I dropped it right onto the concrete!
Whew! It didn't break. "You sorry b--tard!", I said to myself. "Don't even follow your own advice! Lucky it didn't break."
I picked it up, walked over to get a clean paper towel, changed hands with it (football coaches tell runners NEVER change hands while running with the ball!), ... and promptly dropped it again. It broke. The dog was walking in the shards. I took my anger out on the dog. I am ashamed.
Noticed that the bowl was about 2" diameter. Went to the plumbing junk-box and pulled out a 2" pipe end-cap. Laid it upside down on a file to smooth/true the surfaces. Put it under the tractor's gascolator and turned on the fuel. Works great.
And my dog still loves me. (But, of course, she's never had to listen to my mx advice.)