Does anyone still use this

[Mitch//pa]

[JOHN CT]

No,but people collect them

[Dollar Bill]

I was moving some stuff in the garage and came across the one I used at my very first job at a filling station back in 1972. It's been a looong time since oil came in cans so I imagine it will be relegated to museum status.

Mine looks just like yours :-)

[C26Pinelake]

I bought over 50 cases of 1950 oil at an auction all metal not paper cans and I therefore use it regularly. Every old. Car guy has at least one in his garage. Wayne .

[Benson]

I have one that has inscribed on it:

"Do not remove from THE ARK engine room!!


By order of NOAH ...

[burner31]

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I have several of them.
But come to think of it, I haven't used one of those in years, not since they switch over to the plastic jugs.
Still carry one in the toolbox of my '57 Chevy's trunk (why...I don't know), but I buy the 5 qt jugs when I change the oil in the Model A.
Some of the young'ins today would not have a clue as to what that was used for.
Same goes for one of these...

[KGBnut]

Wow! I used to use one of those all the time. I should still have it somewhere.

Does anyone remember when canned oil went away? I couldn't say.

Ken

[Mitch//pa]

Originally Posted by burner31

I have several of them.
But come to think of it, I haven't used one of those in years, not since they switch over to the plastic jugs.
Still carry one in the toolbox of my '57 Chevy's trunk (why...I don't know), but I buy the 5 qt jugs when I change the oil in the Model A.
Some of the young'ins today would not have a clue as to what that was used for....

One of my techs is 23 so I showed it to him and asked if he knows what it is...
Had no clue
I'll have to try out the batt filler on him. Lol

[Beater]

did you know if you sharpen them up you can still use them to stab the bottom of a quart plastic oil jug. looks stupid but I feel like im in 1970 again

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I worked on a Volvo with an oil leak in the rear. An OLD worn cardboard Quart oil can was dripping out the tool compartment drain plug!
We LOVED the old square Anti-Freeze cans, cut the side out & made bolts/nut trays. Even soldered an old radiator cap on the bottom & hooked them on the radiator, when doing engine area work. For under car work, used a coffee can with nail holes in the bottom & a wire hook to hold them. Then we'd just dunk it in the carb cleaner, to clean the nuts/bolts/etc. We had 4 carb dip buckets & somebody in the past had built an electric powered gearbox, a shaft with 4 cam lobes with BIG hinges above them. Just hook the baskets to wires on the hinges & they would agitate up & down. A carb was squeaky clean in 5 MINUTES!!
Somebody had built a Power Steering Test Bench, with motor, pump, gauges, etc, to adjust & test steering gears, BEFORE they went back in the car!! We did a lots of Chrysler/Plymouth steering gears. They were interesting, with their re-circulating ball design. The balls alternated, one blue, one silver, one blue, one silver----Well, you get it! There must have been a HUNDRED BALLS????
My '32 5 Window came with some OLD Plymouth steering box, always worked well, don't know what year box it was???
Recently saw a stock '29 Plymouth 5 Window Coupe, except for the WOOD wheels, it looked much like a Model A, even the bumpers could work on an "A" Bone.
Bill W.

[Patrick L.]

I have them hanging on nails just collecting dust. But, what memories they bring back.

[William Kelchner]

I remember using on of these while I was in the Navy - we were switching over from sail to steam.... Cheers

[Mitch//pa]

This one is made in JAPAN

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by burner31

Same goes for one of these...

If they only knew what we filled them with...

[Dodge]

I still use one every once in a while as I have still have several cases of old 50 wt. oil for my Harley., and a few cases of Kendall transmission oil.
The oil was also $10.00 a case back then.

[Tom F OHIO]

Hey Mitch you probably use one of these quite bit.

[Mitch//pa]

Originally Posted by Tom F OHIO

Hey Mitch you probably use one of these quite bit.

Tom yes I do

[Tom F OHIO]

Originally Posted by Mitch//pa

Tom yes I do

I like yours better. That would take more than a oil filter off.

[stouchton]

Still have one, but have not used since the mid 70's?? Always loved the sound it made when it slid into the can.

It is sitting right next to my glass oil jar with the screw on funnel lid. I am absolutely mystified that the oily glass jar has never been dropped! Last time my dad used it had to be the mid-60's.

[Steve_Mack_CT]

Well we used them up to the early 80s at the Shell station I worked at as I recall. I have a couple around somewhere. I stacked a LOT of cardboard cans on island racks in those days, we moved a lot of oil on the full service islands. Good thing cars seem to consume less between changes these days, not that long ago it was customary for about 10% or more to take a quart. I think the change to bottles took place not too long after that.

[Phil Brown]

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

I they only knew what we filled them with...

Yea reg. water or "reclaimed" water

[gridleak]

probably not, the rubber is usually rotted away.

[Barber31]

I have one just like that also with a about 5 or so intact oil cans. I think I have 2 of those metal oil filter removers and 2 old hand held grease pumps.

[leo]

Oil comes in plastic containers now, does anybody know when the last vestiges of oil in cans was?

[Pinesdune]

I still pump all my DMO with this and a gallon measure, I top off engines yet with the glass jar, lol, old habits eh


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Originally Posted by Dodge

I still use one every once in a while as I have still have several cases of old 50 wt. oil for my Harley., and a few cases of Kendall transmission oil.
The oil was also $10.00 a case back then.

And, don't forget, a case of oil was 24 quarts. None of this 12 quart half-case stuff!

[CarlG]

And some oil is now 6 quarts to the case.

[Steve Plucker]

Originally Posted by Pinesdune

I still pump all my DMO with this and a gallon measure, I top off engines yet with the glass jar, lol, old habits eh


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I am looking for one of those but with the glass cylinder.

Does anyone know when the first metal oil cans came out to use the push dispenser spout that Mitch shows?

Pluck

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by Phil Brown

Yea reg. water or "reclaimed" water

Country folks used RAIN water in their batteries, radiators & to fill the washpot for laundry. Many folks had rain water collection tanks & roof gutters to direct the water into them. I used to hide behind the tank, cuz my Momma wuz too Fat to get in there!
Bill W.

[Flathead]

Originally Posted by Pinesdune

I still pump all my DMO with this and a gallon measure, I top off engines yet with the glass jar, lol, old habits eh


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I was getting all nostalgic until I got to the "sent from my iphone" part

[700rpm]

Thanks a lot, Mitch. Now I have to go rummage around in my garage trying to see if I still have mine, which I haven't seen (or used) in over 20 years!

[Mitch//pa]

Originally Posted by 700rpm

Thanks a lot, Mitch. Now I have to go rummage around in my garage trying to see if I still have mine, which I haven't seen (or used) in over 20 years!

I didn't think one picture would bring so much interest,, we amuse easily especially on old items..

Ray when you find your spout please post a pic of it they are not all created equal..
Mine was made in Japan

[31 Model A]

Mine is just for show........free Rotella goes in the engine.

[Mitch//pa]

Originally Posted by 31 Model A

Mine is just for show........free Rotella goes in the engine.

Free lifetime supply of rotella, you are connected

That's a nice bottle you got there

[Fred K-OR]

Here are my contributions to this post. These items have been there since the last time I used them which was ????????. Have also a "junior" model for the small amount of ??? Have some "modern" type to use on plastic bottles. (Which are rather old also)

No Japan on any items. Maybe they are not "that" old.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I had one with a spring on it, you pushed it in & turned it, to lock it to the can.
Bill W.

[RichardW]

Here are a couple that I have.

[Drive Shaft Dave]

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

I they only knew what we filled them with...

A couple of years ago I bought one at The AX MAN , surplus store for a couple of dollars,use it for my deep cycle .

[Drive Shaft Dave]

Originally Posted by RichardW

Here are a couple that I have.

The one that I have say's Plews. Same for the battery can.

[Drive Shaft Dave]

Originally Posted by Fred K-OR

Here are my contributions to this post. These items have been there since the last time I used them which was ????????. Have also a "junior" model for the small amount of ??? Have some "modern" type to use on plastic bottles. (Which are rather old also)

No Japan on any items. Maybe they are not "that" old.

The small spout was for filling the trans.

[jeep44]

I went out to look for mine, but I either threw it out (rather unlikely for me), or it's buried deep in some forgotten corner. I was trying to remember the last time I used oil in cardboard cans, late '70s-early '80s?.


edit: Quaker State claims they were the first to package oil in plastic containers in 1984

[RichardW]

The small one is new in the box. Name on the box is plews. I bought it new in 2008 from a local hardware store for $1.60 + .13 tax.

[Drive Shaft Dave]

Originally Posted by RichardW

The small one is new in the box. Name on the box is plews. I bought it new in 2008 from a local hardware store for $1.60 + .13 tax.

I had forgotton all about the small spout used for ATF, untill I saw the photo of it.

[Mitch//pa]

Does anyone have this super deluxe fancy model?

[Drive Shaft Dave]

Originally Posted by Mitch//pa

Does anyone have this super deluxe fancy model?

That has to be the Grandaddy of them all,haven't seen one of them in a long while.

[DougVieyra]

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Of course there were various qualities - even before China came on the scene. Unfortunately, for me, the cheap ones leaked all the time - the mid-priced ones leaked some of the time - and the expensive ones leaked on occasion. I always found the to be a pain in the butt. So I was delighted when the new slant top plastic pour bottle came along.

But, while I certainly have not looked for them, I don't recall seeing the 1 quart paper oil cans around for sale lately. Are they still around ?

What I did prefer and use 'in the good ole dayz' was a 1 quart metal oil can with the adjustable long-neck pour spout. Like many, I would fill it from a 55 gallon oil drum. This device worked perfectly, without any drips or spills.

[Steve Plucker]

Originally Posted by DougVieyra

Of course there were various qualities - even before China came on the scene. Unfortunately, for me, the cheap ones leaked all the time - the mid-priced ones leaked some of the time - and the expensive ones leaked on occasion. I always found the to be a pain in the butt. So I was delighted when the new slant top plastic pour bottle came along.

But, while I certainly have not looked for them, I don't recall seeing the 1 quart paper oil cans around for sale lately. Are they still around ?

What I did prefer and use 'in the good ole dayz' was a 1 quart metal oil can with the adjustable long-neck pour spout. Like many, I would fill it from a 55 gallon oil drum. This device worked perfectly, without any drips or spills.

Doug,

Yes, they are still around...I got one or two in my collection.

Pluck

[jeep44]

Another feature of the cardboard oil can: If you weren't careful, when you tried to insert the spout, you would collapse the side of the can. The spout was always oily after use, so if you kept it in the trunk like me, you had to keep it in a plastic bag.

[holdover]

Started pumping gas in the late 50's while in HS. We had oil cans that you used the spout shown, later ones had a piece of rubber that was supposed to reduce/stop leakage, didn't work very well. We also had glass bottles at the pump that we filled up with a square tank with a pump, a bulk oil truck came and filled it. When we were doing oil changes we used a gallon pitcher with a flexible metal spout. We called the oil in the glass bottle "bottled oil" and I recall we charged .25 per quart. I believe the .25 oil was reclaimed & reprocessed It was a Mobil station and we had 3 grades of canned oil costing .35-45 & .55 a quart, the .35 was 30 wt and the .55 was 10-30. Must of punched a hole into a million of those cans. If I recall they started to be replaced by plastic in the early to mid 80s

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by Mitch//pa

Free lifetime supply of rotella, you are connected

That's a nice bottle you got there

Thanks to you...........

I was at the right place and the right time for the bottle and spout and....cap.

The spout has a patent stamped on it for Sept 14, 1926. The Master MFG, Litchfield, Illinois which is not very far from me. The bottle itself has a patent stamp of PA, 1924

Cheap WallyWorld 30w oil inside.

[Pinesdune]

Went digging this morning and found a couple, the funnel one must have been one of the last made.




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[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Remember the NEAT noise they made when pushed into a can?--ZIIIIIP! And the smell of hotpatches?
Chief put his used oil in a barrel, with a faucet, it would "MYSTERIOUSLY" disappear??? With copper tubing & another barrel in the back room, he converted the Pot Belly to burning used oil & coal oil. Didn't stink as bad as COAL! Gabe Caldwell used to bring us COAL & later brought ICE, in the same old '36 Chev Truck, with the back fenders half rotted off.
Idiots would say, "You smell like GAS, you work in a fillin' station"??--"I don't smell anything"???
Bill Old

[Keith True]

I have a couple of neat ones still around.The one on the left was nice for old straight six motors,like slant six's,or Rambler and GM six's.Slam the can down on it and it was instantly empty.I still use that in the garage for pouring gallons of oil in trucks.The one on the right is nice,it takes the metal quart cans nicely but the cardboard ones tend to hang up in it.It has a thumb button and a flapper valve in the bottom.The spigot flips down like the old fuel spouts did at the tank farm.Park the truck just right,lower the boom,and let her rip.As you can see I have a couple of sheds full of this trash.Most of this I've picked out of the dump since I was a kid.

[eagle]

I used Pennzoil in the cardboard can in my VW bug until 1985. Then switched to Quakerstate mainly because of the handy plastic bottles. Always ended up with a half quart extra so the replaceable covers on the plastic bottles were great. Plus the oil spout on the cardboard can ALWAYS leaked.

[Tom Wesenberg]

The store had a good sale on quarts of oil in the cardboard containers, so I bought 3 cases of 24 quarts. This was about 1974, but by the time I got to the second or third case, they were only half full because the oil had seeped out through the cardboard.

[Mark W.]

If I'm remembering it right, Associated or "Flying A" was one of the last in our area that had oil in cans and used the sales slogan "Real MEN Don't use bottles"

Might do a search later and try to pin down the year, but I'm thinking early 70's

[ian Simpson]

Originally Posted by Pinesdune

I still pump all my DMO with this and a gallon measure, I top off engines yet with the glass jar, lol, old habits eh


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We still do this on when working on the tractors, except the oil drums are plastic not steel!

[dave in australia]

Originally Posted by leo

Oil comes in plastic containers now, does anybody know when the last vestiges of oil in cans was?

Turbine engine oil and hydraulic oil still come in quart cans in the aviation world.

[Mitch//pa]

I guess Ray (700rpm) never found his lost spouts

[mshmodela]

Wow that image brought back memories of corner service stations and my dad ... I can almost smell the oil... That's what I like about greasing my car.. The smells brings me back when my dad would work on the family cars... Thanks for the photo.

[Tom Wesenberg]

Originally Posted by mshmodela

Wow that image brought back memories of corner service stations and my dad ... I can almost smell the oil... That's what I like about greasing my car.. The smells brings me back when my dad would work on the family cars... Thanks for the photo.

One of my favorite smells was going into the machine shed on my grandfather's farm, and smelling the oils and grease in the tool room. It was such a neat smell and can rarely be found anymore. I know it can't be found on the old family farm because the new owner's burned every building to the ground so they could plant another 4 acres of crops.

[Tom Wesenberg]

On the subject of pouring oil from a quart container, does anyone know the right way to pour from these plastic bottles?

Looking at the picture, would you tip it to the left or tip it to the right?

[Mitch//pa]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

On the subject of pouring oil from a quart container, does anyone know the right way to pour from these plastic bottles?

Looking at the picture, would you tip it to the left or tip it to the right?

I also tilt them back

[CarlG]

I'm with Mitch

[Keith True]

Somebody just emailed me and told me that the odd shaped funnel on the left in my picture was for gallon cans.I just held an old rectangular can over it,sure enough it fit.I never knew why the funnel was shaped that way until now.I still have some Sears Roebuck oil in those gallon cans.One of them is in my picture.Blue and white can..

[Tom Wesenberg]

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Originally Posted by Mitch//pa

I also tilt them back

Yep, many years ago someone corrected me on the right way to pour it, and I found it was so much cleaner and easier when you do it the right way.