Does anyone still use this

I went out to look for mine, but I either threw it out (rather unlikely for me), or it's buried deep in some forgotten corner. I was trying to remember the last time I used oil in cardboard cans, late '70s-early '80s?.


edit: Quaker State claims they were the first to package oil in plastic containers in 1984
 
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The small one is new in the box. Name on the box is plews. I bought it new in 2008 from a local hardware store for $1.60 + .13 tax.
 
Does anyone have this super deluxe fancy model?
 

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Of course there were various qualities - even before China came on the scene. Unfortunately, for me, the cheap ones leaked all the time - the mid-priced ones leaked some of the time - and the expensive ones leaked on occasion. I always found the to be a pain in the butt. So I was delighted when the new slant top plastic pour bottle came along.

But, while I certainly have not looked for them, I don't recall seeing the 1 quart paper oil cans around for sale lately. Are they still around ?

What I did prefer and use 'in the good ole dayz' was a 1 quart metal oil can with the adjustable long-neck pour spout. Like many, I would fill it from a 55 gallon oil drum. This device worked perfectly, without any drips or spills.
 
DougVieyra said:
Of course there were various qualities - even before China came on the scene. Unfortunately, for me, the cheap ones leaked all the time - the mid-priced ones leaked some of the time - and the expensive ones leaked on occasion. I always found the to be a pain in the butt. So I was delighted when the new slant top plastic pour bottle came along.

But, while I certainly have not looked for them, I don't recall seeing the 1 quart paper oil cans around for sale lately. Are they still around ?

What I did prefer and use 'in the good ole dayz' was a 1 quart metal oil can with the adjustable long-neck pour spout. Like many, I would fill it from a 55 gallon oil drum. This device worked perfectly, without any drips or spills.
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Doug,

Yes, they are still around...I got one or two in my collection.

Pluck
 
Another feature of the cardboard oil can: If you weren't careful, when you tried to insert the spout, you would collapse the side of the can. The spout was always oily after use, so if you kept it in the trunk like me, you had to keep it in a plastic bag.
 
Started pumping gas in the late 50's while in HS. We had oil cans that you used the spout shown, later ones had a piece of rubber that was supposed to reduce/stop leakage, didn't work very well. We also had glass bottles at the pump that we filled up with a square tank with a pump, a bulk oil truck came and filled it. When we were doing oil changes we used a gallon pitcher with a flexible metal spout. We called the oil in the glass bottle "bottled oil" and I recall we charged .25 per quart. I believe the .25 oil was reclaimed & reprocessed It was a Mobil station and we had 3 grades of canned oil costing .35-45 & .55 a quart, the .35 was 30 wt and the .55 was 10-30. Must of punched a hole into a million of those cans. If I recall they started to be replaced by plastic in the early to mid 80s
 
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That's a nice bottle you got there
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Thanks to you...........;)

I was at the right place and the right time for the bottle and spout and....cap.

The spout has a patent stamped on it for Sept 14, 1926. The Master MFG, Litchfield, Illinois which is not very far from me. The bottle itself has a patent stamp of PA, 1924

Cheap WallyWorld 30w oil inside.
 
Went digging this morning and found a couple, the funnel one must have been one of the last made.
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Remember the NEAT noise they made when pushed into a can?--ZIIIIIP! And the smell of hotpatches?
Chief put his used oil in a barrel, with a faucet, it would "MYSTERIOUSLY" disappear??? With copper tubing & another barrel in the back room, he converted the Pot Belly to burning used oil & coal oil. Didn't stink as bad as COAL! Gabe Caldwell used to bring us COAL & later brought ICE, in the same old '36 Chev Truck, with the back fenders half rotted off.
Idiots would say, "You smell like GAS, you work in a fillin' station"??--"I don't smell anything"???
Bill Old
 
I have a couple of neat ones still around.The one on the left was nice for old straight six motors,like slant six's,or Rambler and GM six's.Slam the can down on it and it was instantly empty.I still use that in the garage for pouring gallons of oil in trucks.The one on the right is nice,it takes the metal quart cans nicely but the cardboard ones tend to hang up in it.It has a thumb button and a flapper valve in the bottom.The spigot flips down like the old fuel spouts did at the tank farm.Park the truck just right,lower the boom,and let her rip.As you can see I have a couple of sheds full of this trash.Most of this I've picked out of the dump since I was a kid.
 

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I used Pennzoil in the cardboard can in my VW bug until 1985. Then switched to Quakerstate mainly because of the handy plastic bottles. Always ended up with a half quart extra so the replaceable covers on the plastic bottles were great. Plus the oil spout on the cardboard can ALWAYS leaked.
 
The store had a good sale on quarts of oil in the cardboard containers, so I bought 3 cases of 24 quarts. This was about 1974, but by the time I got to the second or third case, they were only half full because the oil had seeped out through the cardboard.
 
If I'm remembering it right, Associated or "Flying A" was one of the last in our area that had oil in cans and used the sales slogan "Real MEN Don't use bottles"

Might do a search later and try to pin down the year, but I'm thinking early 70's
 
Wow that image brought back memories of corner service stations and my dad ... I can almost smell the oil... That's what I like about greasing my car.. The smells brings me back when my dad would work on the family cars... Thanks for the photo.
 
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