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[Rileysan]

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I have to remind myself there are younger members here who haven't seen what I take for granted!

You have an oil can spout.

Brian

 

[gnpenning]

Just saw some online test ad showing one. One of those tests that say a certain percentage of people won't get it.

BTW I agree with rileysan.

 

[Kwikasfaki]

ESSO had canned oil in the 60's, they reckoned it was better, because it was protected from the elements. But the spout/piercing tool was usually covered in dust and insects!

 

[Bob/Ohio]

I have a couple of these in my cabinet. I have to laugh at Kiwiasfaki's post about the spouts covered with dust and insects, how true! When I worked at a gas station we had a can hanging in the oil rack by the pumps, which you kept the spout in. That can and spout got pretty dirty, because everything in the world stuck to the oily surface. Sometimes you would have to add some oil to a customers car and you would find a giant moth or some other critter stuck on the spout, no charge for that!

Bob

 

[txvwnut]

I used to roll them up in a rag to keep’em as clean as I could.

 

[Bogie1632]

I'm just old enough to remember using them with my grandfather on the farm. I've got a full can of oil sitting on a shelf in the garage. Bit beat up and rusty, but full. Had to explain how it was used along with the spout to my kids.

V/R
Bogie

 

[woody 73]

Such a strange looking device could it be an alien probe of some kind ? Gee I have never seen one before it must be before my time?.. Just teasing you op on this wet Wednesday morning.

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[gsea]

My grandfather died 10 years ago and we’re finally now going through his shop.

Thank you for the answers! I have learned something today.


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[joe_padavano]

My experience with those spouts is that the were a great way to create an oil spill. I used to use the spout to puncture the can then poured straight from the can into the motor with a funnel.

 

[driftpin]

My experience with those spouts is that the were a great way to create an oil spill. I used to use the spout to puncture the can then poured straight from the can into the motor with a funnel.

Then I guess the funnel with the lever-actuated oil can opener integral to it is something that younger readers would find baffling.

 

[Stuart in MN]

I remember the first time I saw oil in a plastic bottle with a screw top, I was on a motorcycle trip through Canada and had to buy some oil to top off the engine. I was impressed - prior to that, whenever I had to get oil on a bike trip in the states I'd end up using half of it and leaving the rest behind because there was no way to seal up the can and put in my saddlebags. It was several more years before they were available in the US.

 

[RivennHewn]

Tinman’s *****

 

['52Chevy]

Tinman’s *****

I nearly spit out my whiskey!

 

[David Jackson]

Not so good with the later paper cans, the can would kind of collapse if you were too vigorous putting the spout in.
There were, of course, variations, some with a long flex pipe for auto transmission fluid, and some really of small diameter as well.
I just recently sold my last full cans of oil from the 1970s with the last couple of spouts I had.

 

[HalfTonTom]

Back in the 60's I pumped a lot of gas for Hess in Albany, NY. Part of our routine was to check every customer's oil, thus we sold a lot of it. We used those spouts. Most of us also drove beaters that leaked and smoked, so we'd drain what was left in those cans into a big can, then use it in our beaters. We soon discovered that those spouts caused a lot of small pieces of metal from the can tops to collect in the drained oil. Perhaps that's one small reason why engines didn't last as long back then.

 

[David Jackson]

Well that's an interesting thought.

 

[c39er]

Those spouts were always messy..poured hundreds of quarts of Enco oil out thru that spout in my "Enco Tiger" suit.
Cars sure seemed to use oil back then.

 

[Shadowdog500]

Last time I used one of those was about 30 years ago. I had two of them at one point. No idea where they are now.

 

[yardiron]

I think I've still got a case or two of old Quaker State straight 20W oil on the shelf here and at least one partly used can of old Sinclair oil with the spout still in the can sitting on the wall in the garage that my grandfather or father left there decades ago.

I also have an unopen case of Texaco Havoline in straight 60W and a case of 10W40 in Super Grade that I bought in the 70's and never used. Not to mention about 20 cases of the first round plastic bottles in 10W40 from the early 80's. ( I was working at a Fiat/VW/Audi/Renault dealership and the owner got mad at the Texaco sales rep and insisted we throw all the Texaco oil in the dumpster, so I did, but I sort of missed and it landed in my truck instead). I've got a dozen or more of those oil spouts, for years just about every used car I bought seemed to have one wrapped up in newspaper in the trunk or stuffed in a corner somewhere under the hood. I kept all the really nice stainless steel ones but usually tossed the cheap painted department store spouts.

 

[tatra]

Used them , hated them . Preferred the funnel with the built in opener .

 

[The Cobbler]

I loved those old spouts, I had a 69 chevy camper special that leaked oil bad,. I would open the hood, pierce a can of oil, put the spout into the valve cover and away I would go .
couldn't do that with the plastic bottles!

 

[bugnut]

I just picked one up for a buck. It is an Allstate brand never been used!

 

[Hawk]

Somewhere in my shed is a spout for a four quart can. I do not have a picture of it, but I am sure some here remember the big cans of oil. Here is a picture of the two size cans.

 

[22george]

Some large aircraft turbine engine iol still comes in cans like that. So they still can be used.

 

[ddawg16]

You know how to make me feel old

 

[Sevenhills1952]

Used them , hated them . Preferred the funnel with the built in opener .

Like this one.
It looks like OPs funnel is missing the square rubber seal.

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[Noworries]

HA!! Thats funny...as I was cleaning up the other day I, for a split second, thought about tossing mine away. Then I thought that if the melinial global warming folks get their way..I may need it again. �� And then theres the garage cat...

 

[driftpin]

How-long before this tool shows-up on a click-bait ad for "old tools which are obsolete, no-one passes this quiz"?

They can pair it with the red-handled tool for removing/replacing the drum brake retaining springs' keepers, for the shoes, and the drum brake spring stretcher tool.

Maybe the half-a-valve cover for setting valve clearances, too.

The flexi-shaft screwdriver for making carb adjustments, and one for the Delco-Remy points dwell gap.

The offset box wrench with the 90 degree bend, for the distributor retaining screw.

A Marvel Mystery Oil top-end lubrication system.

For motorcycles, Snuff-R-Nots.

Curb feelers.

'Necker's knobs'

Combination rear-view mirrors/spotlights.

A tonneau cover, displayed off the vehicle, for a sportscar. The full one, with the pocket for the steering wheel.

A Curta 'coffee grinder' calculator.

A single velocity stack.

A timing light. The one with the dwell meter in the end.

A Uni-Syn carburetor balance tool.

A mercury multiple carburetor balancing tool.

 

[greg13]

Thanks guys, you just made me think about how old I really am (wife too, she knew what it was).