<font color="red"> (Very brave and agile, but do you have the PT-425 with the insulated muffler like pajoube and I have?? The oil stream is NOT the problem!! It is getting the filter out and in, cleaning up any spillage inside the frame, and, before I redirected the hex oil plug, reaching the plug from the top or side!!) </font>
Then how about being a little clearer in your posts and skipping the sarcasm. If your particular configuration of PT-425, and there are many, doesn't allow for immediate access to the filter, etc., then it is reasonable to wait until it is cool enough to do so. That doesn't necessarily mean waiting overnight though. External parts should cool much more rapidly than oil inside the engine. Simply waiting until items can be worked on with getting burned seems like the appropriate recommendation.
<font color="red"> (That is why I suggested "Just allow a little extra drain time"!!) </font>
I think you will find the thicker film of the cold oil coating the engine's parts will prevent the "little extra drain time" from making up for not draining the oil when it is hot..
<font color="red"> (In the old days before small engine oil filters that was a valid reason, but in a modern filtered engine large contaminants are removed by the filter, and any contaminants too small to be filtered out are too small to settle out overnight!!) </font>
Can you provide any substantiation for that? Cars, for example, have had modern filters for many years, yet all authorities that I am aware continue to preach the "drain it when it is hot" philosophy. Can you cite any authoritative source that says otherwise? If so, please do so.