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Royse

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I don't think this one has ever been used. Probably never will be.
What's gathering dust in your shop that should just be pitched?

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I place mine in the qt. oil tins, have a dew dozen tins and about 6 or so
spouts, used them a lot working at a filling station during high school.
 
When those spouts are shoved into the can bits of metal are shaved off the can into the oil. If you use a beer can opener the same. A lot of stuff is gathering dust, in my shop, but I will never get rid of it. I may need it someday. I will let my kids toss it.
 
Let's see.....one of those,new in plastic,a new water pump for a 59-60 Edsel Ranger,a new fuel pump for a 55-58 Pontiac.....LOL
 
Somewhere in the garage I have a funnel with a long flex end with a built in opener for adding cans of ATF...somewhere in the garage.
 
I wish I had a nickel for every time I've poked one in a quart of oil. In the old full service stations, it seemed like half of the cars that came in back then were a quart low. It's rare now to pull the dipstick and see it a quart low, even on our old Impala with 200,000 on the odometer.


I have a couple of the quart glass bottles with the tin screw-on spout. I've actually put them in the trash, only to dig them back out. I now have the nicest one on a shelf in the shop, with the spout discreetly fastened to the wall so it won't get knocked off.


Gathering dust in the shop? I need a dumpster - I'm a packrat. I envy your nice clean painted floor.
 
I could still use one of those. I have a can of Valvoline 10W-40 oil sitting on a shelve here in the house. Price tag on it says Wal 83 cents. Wal standing for Wal-Mart and well when I got it a quart of oil was 83 cents
 
How about a brake shoe grinder, used to get the proper arc on new shoes and turned drums? They should
be fit, not to the size of the drum but to a radius to allow the shoes to tip into the drum with
pressure so they don't grab. Mostly used on the shoes with linings held on with rivets that every
little garage/shop had. Even the ol grease gun isn't used that often on the cars/trucks, my ol 50 Chev.
way back, had 42 zerks I believe, and you were supposed to hit'em every 1000 miles. We don't even have
to get into my old growler, who checks generator/starter motor armatures? A Sun distributor testing
machine for spinning those up to check advance springs and set your points (who knows what those are
anymore?) My shop is full, good thing I'm 75 and know what that stuff is for, my boys sure don't. My
Sioux valve grinder hasn't had the dust cover lifted in many years.........
 
Kind of ironic- back in those days oil didn't come in plastic. But now plastic straws are a problem? How many straws worth of plastic make a quart bottle?
 
GTractor ..... I don't think it's the plastic itself (ie many straws vs one oil container) but where those straws (and plastic bags, etc) end up. Most oil containers are likely used up at auto service centers so are unlikely to end up in water supplies, etc. Straws and plastic bags do end up there somehow.
 
I had a six of them things . I thru five of them away .Makes the one I halve left worth more.Dont want to flood the market ya know!
 
"Do you need a timing light to go with that oil can opener"

Nah, I have several. Including this Sears/Penske version still in the wrapper.

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A guy not far from me had a garage full
of cans of oil that could use that
spout. I'm not sure if he still has
them or even if he's still alive.
Seeing that made me think of him.
 
When I sold oil, I gave dozens of those things away. Then all of a sudden we got plastic oil bottles. I must
a left 40 or 50 of them in the shed when I sold the business.
 
I have the same set. The timing light came with the box, in a $5.00 box from a sale.
 
And let's not forget the cardboard cans that require no special
opener. Simple pop top to pour. Dino oil should last forever right?
I wonder if that "money back" guarantee includes inflation. LOL

Jon, check on your neighbor. If he needs it/wants it, he can have it.

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I remember when oil cans went from steel to paper. Those spouts sometimes would crush the "can" before they would penetrate the lid.
 
I do have an old brake shoe grinder on a foot operated brake riveter. Bought it on a consignment sale for $5. Most of the younger guys in the crowd probably didn't know what it was.
 
I remember when oil cans went from Aluminum to steel. Found one all smashed up in the woods several years ago. Aluminum wasn't recycled then & thousands of'em were dumped over the hill.
 
Several sets of unused tire chains from back when we had "the fleet"- 3 kids at home, all driving, plus mom and dad. 5 cars plus a pickup or two. Don't know what cars they fit, and on some the sizes they fit are no longer legible (kids are in late 30's and early 40's now). Guess I should quit moving them around and just send them to the landfill.

And in those days, I bought oil by the case when on sale at Schucks. I let the quick change guys do my oil changes now, and as someone else said, none of the newer cars "use" oil like the fleet did.
 
I have one of those too. Also have an old can of oil. Thought
someday American Pickers may stop by.
 
I have some quarts of oil you could use that spout on. How about a gallon
of the old wood alcohol antifreeze.
 
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