A local flea or antique emporium will source more USA made than retail.
Now is the time to buy before all the boomers are gone and no more estates close out.
I just realized I have 4 or 5. For no good reason. Nothing much uses them anymore and most of the snake oil is sold with a spout. I should dedicate one to the best penetrating oil known to man - 50/50 acetone and trans fluid.
I've used the DUTTON-LAINSON oilers (BlackTalonJHP's link) for years.
They make a fine product, but over the years I've learned to stay away from any models with seamed bottoms, as they will leak, eventually. I've used their spring bottoms, pistol pumpers, and flex spouts.
I found an old and tiny little spring bottom oiler on eBay, in which I keep light machine oil.
When in doubt, mumble
Posts: 10887 | Location: South Congress AZ | Registered: May 27, 2006
I have three antiques I picked up at estate sales . The kind with the rigid spout and you use your thumb to push on the bottom . They still work just fine .
Posts: 4381 | Location: Down in Louisiana . | Registered: February 27, 2009
I have nothing to suggest or offer, but your post reminded me of this. My Mechanics is one AWESOME work of art!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
I needed a good oil can. My last 20 oz spray bottle of Ezzox is almost empty. Time to open up the quart can of "new" Ezzox--I just hope it's the same. Really good deal on the Lee Valley oil cans.
