Posted 5 years ago
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Here's another one of the 'old tools-n-stuff' that normally decorate the area around my workbench at the shop. As best as I remember, it came along with much other (mostly heavier!) stuff years ago when we bought somebody's basement "machine shop" from an estate sale...I then 'requisitioned' it not so much because I needed an oilcan, instead just because I thought it looked cool. <wink><giggle>
It is 3-1/2" or so across its base and 11" tall, painted in old (stained, as would be expected) gray with a red cap holding its long spout, which is slightly bent at its end. No markings or stampings anywhere on it to suggest who actually made it, nor how long ago.
Nice vintage oil can, for some reason it has me thinking of the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz (!)
<LOL> @ Newfld -- yes, I guess he did have one rather similar to it, didn't he...?? :-)
THANKS ALSO to bobby725, Watchsearcher, fortapache, Irishcollector., Broochman, yougottahavestuff, officialfuel, Vynil33rpm, Longings, & blunderbuss2 for sharing the <love it>s!!
Somewhere around here I've also got an 'opposite' to this one, a teeny tiny one only a few inches tall. Need to find where the heck that one is... ;-) :-)
That little bend at the end had a very good reason for being there. Years ago cars had a little flip open oil port way down behind the engine where the distributor shaft went into the block. You needed a long bent spout to reach it. Water pumps and generators had the same type oil port. Alternators hadn't been invented yet and generators is what you had. The water pumps also had a cap you had to pull off and pack with grease now and then. The good old days.