Most below 35 yrs old won’t have a clue, lol

My age confirmed. :(

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tod0987 said:
In case a refresher is needed
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Not quite as bad...but I did stop to help a couple at the gas station when I watched the lady attempt to add two quarts through the dipstick tube. :eek:
 
Aardvark said:
I had 'em Trust Their Car to the Man Who Wears the Star. When I was a kid with a Minibike, I rode a trail through the woods with a quarter to put a Tiger in my Tank...
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Yes, I had a minibike with a 5hp, no governor, and split chain. That thing would move. Later I moved up to Honda trail motorcycles.

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Couldn’t buy a drink in a can until the early 80’s. Lol, remember walking into a store with a empty bottle so I didn’t have to pay the refund. As kids we walked the roads to find bottles people through out and would take them and cash them in. I honest remember in high school paying for a dollar is gas with 90 cent in change and a bottle. :):):):):):)
 
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I'm only 37, but the place I work still has cases of oil in those metal cans. We don't have the spout that goes with them though. Just pop a hole in with a screwdriver and pour down the funnel.
 
RedneckFur said:
I'm only 37, but the place I work still has cases of oil in those metal cans. We don't have the spout that goes with them though. Just pop a hole in with a screwdriver and pour down the funnel.
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What’s a funnel? :confused:
 
That spout looks like one of the newer ones with a foam gasket at the top. The early ones lacked the gasket.

As I recall oil started being packaged in the pour bottles in the late 1970's or early 1980's. I'm thinking that Penzoil was one of the first suppliers to use the plastic bottle with the built in neck.

Majicmike said:
Couldn’t buy a drink in a can until the early 80’s. Lol, remember walking into a store with a empty bottle so I didn’t have to pay the refund. As kids we walked the roads to find bottles people through out and would take them and cash them in. I honest remember in high school paying for a dollar is gas with 90 cent in change and a bottle. :):):):):):)
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Actually beer was available in can's starting in Virginia in 1935. You had to use a "church key" style can opener with them to poke a triangular hole in the top. Coke started offering it's products in can's starting in the early 1960's, per Wiki.

The pull tab style became popular in the 1980's.
 
Probably have 5 or 6 of these around the machine sheds, also more than a few church keys. These are the kinds of things that got connected to a wire, hung on an old nail and then set there for decades. Until you need that spot for something else, no need to move it.
 
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I’m not old enough to have been around for them but it pretty much replaced these ... these were in my Grandpa’s shop.
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Just 2 bottles? Mine has 8 bottles in it. Looks like you cleaned them up too. I sand blasted and blued the metal. I too worked the gas station in high school. I remember these glass bottles at some stations - they held 'reconditioned' oil. Yes, they used to filter and reprocess used motor oil.
 
georgel said:
Can't remember the last time I saw a can. But, I remember them well. I remember the displays at the stations. Probably have one or two of those "devices" somewhere in basic steel.
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Saw a few full ones at the dump couple months back.


B00ger said:
Im 42...but been plastic bottles for as long as I can remember. Knowing what it is now, I do recognize it, or at least see its function, but never had to use one myself.
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They were cans when we were kids, i used to help my dad in the garage and would open them. Probably phased them out in our early teens.
 
Diablos said:
Saw a few full ones at the dump couple months back.
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Probably didn't know how to open them. :D

Suddenly, I remember a method of tempering a spring from a book of gunsmith tips...

You dent an old can enough to place the spring in the dent and cover it with oil. Light the oil with a torch and let it burn out. Then I think it was cover the espring with sand until it cools?
 
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This is the pull tab I remember..

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they were used for fishing... while drinking beer.
You clipped a bobber to the ring and then hung the other end on your fishing line between guides, leaving a loop of line hanging down.
When you got a bite it would rise ups and you then set the hook. WHAM !.. after you netted the fish, you went looking for your bobber 10 yards behind you.
 
When I was a kid just old enough to help dad change the oil my job was to hold the can after dad poked the spout on and started the pour.

The drips didn't matter much on those old tractor engines... it was pretty normal to have as much oil on the outside as in.

This was the early 70s and I recall the county had a sprayer truck which they filled with their old motor oil to keep the dust down on our dirt road.
 
Mirac said:
This is the pull tab I remember..

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they were used for fishing... while drinking beer.
You clipped a bobber to the ring and then hung the other end on your fishing line between guides, leaving a loop of line hanging down.
When you got a bite it would rise ups and you then set the hook. WHAM !.. after you netted the fish, you went looking for your bobber 10 yards behind you.
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dang, forgot about them. We use too save them and make chains out of them.
 
I've stabbed a lot of cans with those things and always hated the cardboard cans once they came out. If the piercing part was dull you'd partially collapse the side of the can and end up with a mess. Fortunately most of the places I worked had the bulk oil drums. Every time I see one of those spouts today I envision a cardboard can and foul language.
 
charliesgrave said:
I knew what this was but I like messing with antiques, and they show up a lot in estates we auction off.

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I've always wondered if they would work on the old metal fruit juice cans.
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Yuck! I sure don't miss that dreck. I was probably the only kid on earth that wouldn't drink any of those fruit punch drinks.
 
Before the cardboard cans, a reusable20200518_173201.jpg glass bottle was filled from a bulk oil container then poured into engine or transmission.
 
One of the restaurants in Cherokee has stuff like that around. I've asked several guys I work with and they don't know.
Kinda like Crackerbarrel, not only know what the stuff is, I've used most of them.I
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charliesgrave said:
I knew what this was but I like messing with antiques, and they show up a lot in estates we auction off.

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I've always wondered if they would work on the old metal fruit juice cans.
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Found one in a bundle I bought at an estate sale this weekend. I used to look for them, now I leave them for somebody else. Probably have at least a half dozen.
 
Alfred said:
I've stabbed a lot of cans with those things and always hated the cardboard cans once they came out. If the piercing part was dull you'd partially collapse the side of the can and end up with a mess. Fortunately most of the places I worked had the bulk oil drums. Every time I see one of those spouts today I envision a cardboard can and foul language.
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Thats why we didn't use the pos, poked the holes with a can opener and used a funnel.
 
GoWolfpack said:
I have one of those. Brand new, never used. Still has the price tag from K Mart on it.

My dad has a full can of oil somewhere around the junk we moved from my grandfather's house.

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Hell you know it is old if it says Kmart on it!
 
mikep7m10 said:
Just 2 bottles? Mine has 8 bottles in it. Looks like you cleaned them up too. I sand blasted and blued the metal. I too worked the gas station in high school. I remember these glass bottles at some stations - they held 'reconditioned' oil. Yes, they used to filter and reprocess used motor oil.
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Quaker state ? lol
 
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