I miss cans

[Blinker]

It’s a conspiracy?

Not that I’m aware of.

 

[DavidJones]

I still have 2 push in spouts in the bottom drawer of my toolbox waiting on the oil can that'll never come......

 

[bbhero]

And of course:

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In a pink can....

That's all you kschachn...

 

[Red Crow]

I don’t do Fascbook.

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.

 

[Malo83]

Cardboard.

 

[Motu]

Geniune Japanese oils still come in cans...I've got a few at home I use.

 

[Snagglefoot]

I still have my Dads oil spout from the early 60’s.

 

[SR5]

Mellowed 80 million years

 

[OilReport99]

And of course:

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Better than "The Kardashians SAE 20W-50"

 

[4WD]

Mellowed 80 million years

Nice … I have a Sinclair can at home (not home now) …

 

[dmac_73]

An old can of Texaco Havoline oil and a longlife 1974 Oil Filter at my mother's antique shop.

 

[Kruse]

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.

Never say never. This is a can from my collection, probably from the '30s. This oil was on the market before the University of Kansas became very protective of their mascot and long before WalMart used to dictate to the oil companies that only THEY could sell a 5-quart container of oil. Jayhawk Oil had a chain of gas stations in this state. I also have a Jayhawk Oil road map, a book of Jayhawk Oil matches and...get this...a 15-foot tall Jayhawk Oil neon sign that I got on ebay quite a few years ago.

 

[tom slick]

I have a couple of cans of aircraft oils. One of them was formulated by our own Tom NJ!

 

[Red Crow]

I have a couple of cans of aircraft oils. One of them was formulated by our own Tom NJ!

Which one?

 

[Red Crow]

Mellowed 80 million years

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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.

 

[tom slick]

Which one?

I have a can from Hatco MIL-PRF-23699 that Tom recognized as his work.

 

[Odd_Ball]

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.

Interesting. I only remember the steel and the steel/cardboard cans. I didn't realize they had made them out of aluminum.

 

[Red Crow]

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.

 

[Odd_Ball]

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.

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.

 

[Red Crow]

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.

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.