Old oil
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Topic: Old oil
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: Old oil
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 3:40pm
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OK, I just scored 6 cases of 10W40, 24 cans per case ) Shell SUPER multigrade motor oil one QUART(1.14l) cans !! These are the cardboard cans with steel ends SO the 64,000$ question.... Anyone know how OLD they'd be ? more important follow up... Does anyone KNOW where my oilcan spout with piercer is ?? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 4:41pm
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I no longer have my piercer spout Last can oil I saw as a mechanic was around 1980-84 |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 4:48pm
YEP.. Dave got it..
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 4:50pm
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the addatives in oil tend to separate out after several years.... shake them up, or put in bucket and stir good prior to use. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 5:31pm
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Do the cans have a UPC code on them? What rating is the oil? (Sa-p) Oldest won't have a rating or a low rating, like Sa...)  ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 5:39pm
Older Oil SPECS.... i dont think Jay OWNS anything newer than 1980 !!! 
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 6:06pm
| I have one of those piercing spouts. Somewhere. Fav son saw it years ago and asked what it was. Thanks |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 6:29pm
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I ain't seen one of those spouts in decades.  Good idea about mixing them up. I have seen those additives settle out on old oil. So what you gonna do with it? Reminds me of the day when my dad would only pour Trop Arctic in his flat head Plymouth outta one of those spouts. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 7:35pm
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Dang had to get the bifocals on.... it says......API service SE (formerly MS ) So should be OK for the fleet of 1957 D-14s here ?? Wonder if it'd be 'ok' for lawn mowers and riders ?? I KNOW it's going into the A-C forklift with Buda BD153. It likes anything. Crazy thing is the EMPTY cans are 'collectable' !! At $25 each.....
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: dawntreader74
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 7:42pm
| if 'selling the cans best to open at the bottom of the can' looks a lot better. |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 8:58pm
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Turn the cans upside down for a month or so, then give it a good shake before opening. I still have one old spout left, but in my teen years I just used a knife. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 9:08pm
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Remember the tv commercial showed a guy using a Bic pen to open those old style oil cans. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 9:34pm
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someone thought these'd be good for real 'hot rod', oil may have zinc in them ? I gotta find my real opener gizmo though, dang curious to see what's inside... it's Christmas again !!! Too bad they don't say Allis-Chalmers on them though..... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2023 at 10:06pm
| Think there's still some Quaker State 20wt non detergent in metal quarts up in dad's shop. That's what he used after O/H to break things in. Been there since early 80's. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 9:03am
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update...so.. SHELL gets back, asks me to look at the date code on the cans, I ask WHERE is that..... also says the additives are no good anymore.... I asked WHY ?? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 4:00pm
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i always heard the additives are still there, just settled out in the bottom... After 40 years, i dont know, but after 10-15... you just stir them back up..
you said the cans are worth a fortune.. why not sell them WITH THE OIL and take the money to buy NEW oil ? ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 4:30pm
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I found 2 old quart cans in some junk from an auction maybe 5 years ago. The Cardboard fell apart when I tried to open with church key. Open very carefully !! Be Good oil for use on open chains, or a GREEN tractor engine. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 4:52pm
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Some of the 10/40 oil was not designed for later model engines as they required over a 10 weight but the multi 40 was lacking something for late 80's engines , Yet if you have some older thins that had 10/40 spec - use it - it's batter than the $4.00 or more they now want for a quart . Also it could be used for hydraulic oil in most equipment with no problem as 10/30 is spec on many hyd systems ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 5:26pm
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more digging.... while Shameless machine makes purdy here.... API says 1972-1979 era cars gonna put ads out later.... seems guys poke 2 holes in the bottom to drain,probably real fast with a sharp awl. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 6:19pm
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Here ya go Jay, only 7 bucks. G https://www.ebay.com/itm/165947322967?hash=item26a33b3257:g:b9kAAOSwQc1jWAVO&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwAmZURxVsrNkuULaBWO9oMV6iRSVlfC79JZmKMjikAKzZsx7hmz4J7lUBhuwmIMypQnUhCDWq6WoVXfloy0qX4S%2BZ3lfWO84zdsBqx%2BdhV808NuFkyjGgcuqOZkXkZ5oLCrmJX2eixPOuwsVk6OjDnh%2FnmKBi8sHrp9j39b5bOuu23njUlHO5NrWa3i5xfavWAYWAqoVtQCzU3eR93Z%2FVI2NLD1pY4%2FYMq%2ByV%2BWhTjxJIeaSAfP%2B4izYqrdP3G8xEg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_jvi7rPYQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.ebay.com/itm/165947322967?hash=item26a33b3257:g:b9kAAOSwQc1jWAVO&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwAmZURxVsrNkuULaBWO9oMV6iRSVlfC79JZmKMjikAKzZsx7hmz4J7lUBhuwmIMypQnUhCDWq6WoVXfloy0qX4S%2BZ3lfWO84zdsBqx%2BdhV808NuFkyjGgcuqOZkXkZ5oLCrmJX2eixPOuwsVk6OjDnh%2FnmKBi8sHrp9j39b5bOuu23njUlHO5NrWa3i5xfavWAYWAqoVtQCzU3eR93Z%2FVI2NLD1pY4%2FYMq%2ByV%2BWhTjxJIeaSAfP%2B4izYqrdP3G8xEg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_jvi7rPYQ |
Posted By: Dorix
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 7:06pm
| I just saw yesterday in the garage some cans of Mobil, I think, and my dads old spout. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 7:21pm
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+ 8 bucks shipping. Tossed out about a dozen of them last fall... just in my way. Ssome were like chromed and a couple were painted. mmm,
Maybe should use em to jam them in the butt of the plastic bottles so
to use in them hard to reach filler spouts that ford would bury below
the pipes and hoses in the engine compartment. Maybe not, prolly end up with a bigger mess.  ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |