Not that I’m aware of.It’s a conspiracy?
Not that I’m aware of.It’s a conspiracy?
That's fine, but there were aluminum cans as far back as at least the fifties, and there were round, five quart metal cans that had to be pierced just like the quart cans. I have a Union 76 Royal Triton can from the mid 50s that is aluminum.I don’t do Fascbook.
Better than "The Kardashians SAE 20W-50"
Nice … I have a Sinclair can at home (not home now) …Mellowed 80 million years
Well of course. They were only quarts.
There was a period of time before 5 quart jugs came into existence. We dealt with quarts only before that.
Which one?I have a couple of cans of aircraft oils. One of them was formulated by our own Tom NJ!
This is what I mean about those old cans being art. A plastic bottle just isnt the same kind of blank canvas as a can. That can was your opportunity to sell what was in the can. It didn't have to be extravagant, it just had to push the right buttons. The bottle just doesn't do it.
I have a can from Hatco MIL-PRF-23699 that Tom recognized as his work.Which one?
That's fine, but there were aluminum cans as far back as at least the fifties, and there were round, five quart metal cans that had to be pierced just like the quart cans. I have a Union 76 Royal Triton can from the mid 50s that is aluminum.
I, like you, only remember tin cans, but when I got into collecting I discovered the aluminum ones. Most are tin or composite but I've seen some oddball and possibly one off stuff in the Facebook groups I frequent.Interesting. I only remember the steel and the steel/cardboard cans. I didn't realize they had made them out of aluminum.
I, like you, only remember tin cans, but when I got into collecting I discovered the aluminum ones. Most are tin or composite but I've seen some oddball and possibly one off stuff in the Facebook groups I frequent.
There is a guy is California who has been digging up Royal Triton cans at an empty lot where a Union station once stood. They must've just bulldozed the place over without cleaning the trash out of it. Anyway, they turn the earth every year there, and these old cans have started coming to the surface. These are all aluminum. They are damaged but whole nonetheless. The tin ones he found are just pieces of rust scattered in the dirt.I assume that an aluminum oil can would last a long time without corroding. The steel/tin plate cans I see these days tend to be rather rusty.