Still used with aircraft oil.. at least Aeroshell 20w50 for sure
Seen in local thrift store
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Just after Pa passed away I bought a buzz saw powered by a John Deere upright 2 cylinder flathead. My brother in law gave me a couple cases of canned oil. It burned so much oil that every couple running hours I had to add oil and clean the plugs or it wouldn’t start. So, it was grab a can and the spout, fill up the oil, and clean the plugs. My son was learning about engines and on this occasion, I was getting a can of oil and told him to clean the plugs and DO NOT CROSS THE WIRES! I filled the oil and took a little break. My son comes running and tells me it’s good to go. So I go back to the saw and grab the crank to start it up. 1/2 a turn and boom! It had a straight pipe out of the manifold and when I was bent over to pull the crank, my head is right by the exhaust pipe. A fireball came out of that pipe and burned the fuzz off of my bald head! That oil spout reminded me of that story. All I did was look at my son and said you crossed the plugs, didn’t you. I wish I had a camera to record the look on his face.
We used this and a funnel.
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Nearly everything took 10w40 back then before CAFE ruined the party
That was before my oil changing days, but I recall my dad occasionally using a similar one to measure out quarts from one gal.(?) Wolfs Head or Oilzum metal cans. 1950's, maybe early 1960's. I had much time later with the puncture spout method.I am so old this what we used to dispense oil.......just kidding.
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Jet engine oil is also canned, saw Southwest MX pour cans of Eastman 2380 into a CFM56-7B on the apron.
What is written on the other side of that can? Curious if it was my formulation.
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I remember growing up, my dad would just hold a dinosaur over the car and squeeze the oil out. No spout needed.
Used to have one in every car we owned. And a few in the garage. We kept losing them and bought about a dozen and had them everywhere. I think we had about 10 vehicles in one household back then. Cases of oil stacked in the garage too.
But on the upside, no-one was returning oil cans to Walmart for refund, after filling them with the dirty oil they had drained.
Working at the Mobil station I stabbed a million oil cans. The fun was slamming the empty can into the garbage can. I was faaaaast. I could cover the pumps and oil changes on the rack all day. Loved that job.
It's too bad those spouts were not leakproof.
I think I pitched the 2 or 3 spouts I had in the trash when cans disappeared. I never really used them anyway.
For single cans, I use to use a large blade screwdriver and a funnel. For bulk filling, I used the large blade screwdriver and a 5qt. Swing-Spout.
For single cans, I use to use a large blade screwdriver and a funnel. For bulk filling, I used the large blade screwdriver and a 5qt. Swing-Spout.
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I did some of my after school and summer times pumping the gas and changing oil in the old Orange/Blue Gulf stations that seemed to be everywhere in the 1970s.
Hey, I could use that!
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That QS can is classic. Looks straight out of Andy Warhol.
