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Possibly erroneous paint observation JoeSpareBedroom 01-08-2008
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Posted by Oren on January 8, 2008, 5:34 pm

>Oren wrote:
>>
>>> salty@dog.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Paul MR wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> motor oil in cans that you had to puncture and pour with a special tool.
>>>>> _What_ special tool? That was a "church key", one of which should have
>>>>> always been handy, surely. :)
>>>> He's talking about the spouts with the built in opener.
>>> In that case, what "special tool"?
>>>
>>> I'd wager he meant the old cardboard can w/ the metal top...and I was
>>> making a jest... :(
>>
>> Oh! You mean the cardboard can that would collapse if the special tool
>> (funnel) wasn't carefully inserted into the metal top (G).
>>
>> Before 16 cent bulk oil in a glass jar and screw on funnel...
>>
>> I still have church keys!
>
>Of course...I still have cases of oil in those cans--it'll probably be
>another 5 years before they're used up as down to only one truck that
>uses 20W single viscosity anymore and it doesn't get much work any
>more... :)
>
>Bulk oil was always in 55-gal drums, so have only seen the glass as
>curiosities. Do still have the remnants of the old hand-crank,
>glass-bulb-at-the-top gas pump, however. Unfortunately, it's no longer
>functional; I've wished several times to put it back.

* bottles were filled from the drum and displayed on the rack by the
gas pump (quart of bulk oil was 16 cents). Gas stations used
empty/used cardboard cans for display, so they didn't grow legs.

*
http://www.oldgas.com/info/images/oil_1.gif

Oren
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Posted by dpb on January 8, 2008, 6:40 pm
Oren wrote:
...
> * bottles were filled from the drum and displayed on the rack by the
> gas pump (quart of bulk oil was 16 cents). Gas stations used
> empty/used cardboard cans for display, so they didn't grow legs.
...

What I meant was we never bought oil except in bulk via 55-gal drum so
never bought oil by quart retail until went off to school and by that
time the packaged can (albeit the cardboard ones) were king.

I've seen them in collections, etc., but don't recall ever having even
seen them in use even at the Co-op retail store -- of course, my
recollections of that kind don't go back before the early-/mid-50s--I'm
approaching geezerhood, but not quite _that_ geezerish quite yet... :)

The way I got the current collection of quart cans is that when the
Co-op refinery went out of production Dad bought the entire stock of the
particular oil we used in all the farm trucks they had in stock. That
was over 20 years ago now, and I've probably still got 50 gal left.
Since all the old Chevy trucks that used 20W single-grade are gone
except for the one '58 I've kept as a small "beater" around the place
for yard work, etc., the rate at which I can use it is pretty small
being as I may not change the oil in that truck more than once a year
any more...otoh, the tractors use anywhere from 5 to 7 gal/change
depending on which one and at every 100 hrs, that runs up pretty
quickly... :( Although the biodiesel and improved oils, the newest
which also has large capacity, has stretched change time to 150 hrs --
we'll see how that goes w/ time as we have them all on a tribology
monitoring program. At 100K and up, that's a pretty easy expense to
justify... :)

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Posted by on January 8, 2008, 4:42 pm

>salty@dog.com wrote:
>>
>>> Paul MR wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> motor oil in cans that you had to puncture and pour with a special tool.
>>> _What_ special tool? That was a "church key", one of which should have
>>> always been handy, surely. :)
>>
>> He's talking about the spouts with the built in opener.
>
>In that case, what "special tool"?
>
>I'd wager he meant the old cardboard can w/ the metal top...and I was
>making a jest... :(

???

The special tool WAS the spout. It was used for the old cardboard cans with the
metal top.

Here's a picture of one
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Huffman-Oil-Can-Spout_W0QQitemZ120165145248QQcmdZViewItem>

Posted by dpb on January 8, 2008, 5:04 pm
salty@dog.com wrote:
...

>> ...and I was making a jest... :(
>
> ???
>
> The special tool WAS the spout. It was used for the old cardboard cans with the
> metal top.

Can't you read it was a jest even when I say it???? :(

Jeesh!.

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Posted by Paul MR on January 8, 2008, 2:29 pm
dpb wrote:
> Paul MR wrote:
> ...
>> motor oil in cans that you had to puncture and pour with a special tool.
>
> _What_ special tool? That was a "church key", one of which should have
> always been handy, surely. :)
>
> --
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember church keys too. :)
Paul in San Francisco

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