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Charlie M

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I got some 40 wt non detergent oil, 5 quart container today and it came in a metal can. I haven't seen oil in a metal can in a long time. Anybody else find metal cans for oil?
 
A great oil to use in an oil can. Not an engine. At Ebay it might bring more than its oil value if it has a good (brand name) lable. Jim
 
(quoted from post at 13:54:55 04/13/23) I got some 40 wt non detergent oil, 5 quart container today and it came in a metal can. I haven't seen oil in a metal can in a long time. Anybody else find metal cans for oil?
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Still have some full cans from the '60's.
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The man that owned the junk yard went to a surplus auction and bought I dont know how many hundreds of gallon of 50 weight engine oil from world war 2 And 10 weight hydraulic oil. We ran the 50 weight in every thing for awhile and even the hydraulic oil this was In the 90s
 
I put different cam followers in the engine of my first car, they were supposed to improve performance, the company recommended 20W-20 oil, the local Farm Service ag cooperative had a case of 24 quart metal cans in 20W-20. They had been sitting around for MANY MANY years, the bottoms of all the cans had a quarter inch layer of what looked like grease gun grease. I used about half the case and returned the rest. I got a lot of crazy answers as to what the stuff on the bottoms of the cans was before someone said they would take them back.
 
I was at an auction a while back and they had several cases (10?) of old oil in cans. They looked like 1970s maybe 1960s. Quaker State and Skelly where most of them. They sold them by the quart take one or take so many up to the remaining case. Then they would start on the next case. One guy there seemed determined to buy all of them - I just wanted two cans of Skelly because that was the Go to brand on the farm for years. So I ran him up to $20 on every single quart (Quaker State too - just because) - but he outbid me every time - he also paid $21 a quart for every single can. If he had just once let me have a couple cans he would have probably bought the rest for $2 - $3 a quart - wrong crowd for those items and no one else was bidding.

Later the auctioneer asked me about it and got a good laugh out of it. He said he told the seller they were worth something because they almost hauled them to the dump during the preauction cleanup. They ended up getting over $2500 for them.
 
I was given a 2 1/2 gallon jug of 30wt non detergent a few years ago - because I have old tractors and was I too polite to refuse it.
I used it up in my oil bath air filters and still have some left in a squirt can.
I would take another jug of it if somebody offered it to me.
 
I went to an auction 2 Saturdays ago, and came home with 3 pallets of oil in cans.
One pallet of type f. One pallet of 20w 20
And1 pallet of a mix
2-1/2 pallets worth are for sale.
 
(quoted from post at 19:18:26 04/13/23) I went to an auction 2 Saturdays ago, and came home with 3 pallets of oil in cans.
One pallet of type f. One pallet of 20w 20
And1 pallet of a mix
2-1/2 pallets worth are for sale.
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I could be interested in the type F depending on where it s located and price
 
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