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Offline Rick Sheets

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Neat oil cans
« on: July 10, 2009, 05:23:35 PM »


I picked these up in a box lot. They are tin, I think. They do not react to a magnet.

Do you think they are for sewing machines or whatever? I do not know if any gun oilers were made with the spout. The ones I have seen have a dipper.

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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2009, 06:06:02 PM »
dont take this as gosspel but i believe these were military issue for the M1 carbine in WWII
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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2009, 07:38:36 PM »
       I have a couple of those. Somebody told me that they were old singer sewing machine oiler "bottles".  They work good though and don't leak.
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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2009, 07:57:59 PM »
Have to agree with Lord Calvin, they look like sewing machine oilers, still very nice little cans.  david50, the oiler for the M1 carbine was a small round tube, about 1/2 inch in diameter and maybe 2 inches long, with a top that screwed off, the top had a dipper attached.  It was attached to the butt end of the sling to keep the sling in the stock.
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Offline Nate McKenzie

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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2009, 12:15:11 AM »
My grandmother had two of these in her Singer sewing machine drawers.  I don't know if they came with it but she used them to oil her machine which dated from the forties.
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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2009, 12:44:20 AM »
  These used to be sold in musical instrument stores, and Dixie Gun Works offered them for a long time. I believe they are nickel silver. I had a couple of them, but long gone now.
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Offline Ben I. Voss

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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2009, 06:18:01 AM »
Might they be nickel-plated brass?
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Re: Neat oil cans
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2009, 02:22:32 PM »
  Very possible, and probably so. brass would be cheaper for production. It has been too long, and I really don't remember.
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