Oil Can

[Fishplate]

So, I'm tired of cheap pump oil cans that won't stay primed, fail after a month, or fold up under pressure. I am now willing to spend some real money on a real oil can that I can pick up and squirt oil onto something without having to pump it fifty times to get it flowing.

Any suggestions?

 

[kd3pc]

I dug out my "antique" plink-a-plink can...the kind with a long pointed tube and a cup sized can that the bottom flexes as you push it. Works a lot better than the junk that is out there now.

You can add this to a load of tools that have been rendered useless by the "new" manufacturing process of foreign countries.

List started, feel free to add yours to this:

garden hose
garden hose nozzle
grease gun
c-clamps
hand size garden trowel (my 6 months old, "forged" aluminum just broke about 3 inches up in to the blade, wasn't even digging "hard"....just broke off completely)
salt and pepper shaker (the ones with large holes for salt, smaller for pepper)
mouse traps, that won't spring closed, unless you drop something on it, or drop it on the floor


these all in the past week.

 

[91bronc300]

I don't exactly need an oil can much so I just have Goldenrod. If I wanted to spend real money I would buy this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pressol-Zin...t=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item2c51685feb

 

[skruft]

I do not find that regular oil cans like Eagle take that much priming, maybe a little if they contain something very light, but not usually.

 

[Marcos45/70]

Check out the guy that sells Japanese tools on here. One of those manufacturers makes an awesome oil can. We have one at work and it's flawless. I think the brand is Koken? I'm not sure but once you find the site you'll find the can.

 

[Canadian Charlie]

I have a cheap plastic one, has serve me well for the past 30 years

 

[tdkkart]

The last time I ordered one from McMaster it was a GoldenRod unit:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-oilers/=seknhl

(the one thing I don't like about Mcmaster is that the catalog does not list brand names of the products)

 

[WhoWhatNow]

The last time I ordered one from McMaster it was a GoldenRod unit:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-oilers/=seknhl

(the one thing I don't like about Mcmaster is that the catalog does not list brand names of the products)

Agreed, but if you call them they will tell you the manufacture.

 

[ctb]

I have a goldenrod. Used it for everything from filling rear axles to adding oil to the lawnmower. Still works great and bought it in the 80's.