Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What the hell is this?

This is exactly what I remember but I don't see the U shaped cutter in the OP's photo. To me it looks like a single flat piece of steel and that had me confused.

Maybe it was just a bad camera angle.

is this the same?

Hmm.

I despised those damned things! 🤬

Amalie "Red Top" was famous for those cursed paper cans.
I worked in a Phillips 66 station my senior year, 1969!
I could NEVER get that (bleeping!) spout to "seal" and a goodly portion of the oil missed the hole and boiled out from under the hood as smoke on the exhaust manifold....
OR....
....I pushed down too hard and crushed the can....causing a goodly portion of the oil to pour down on the hot exhaust manifold and smoke boiled out from under the hood! 😖

Cook's Re-refined oil - 35 cents a can. The old timer could barely afford one can and I let a fourth of it dribble down onto the exhaust manifold of his rickety Chevy pickup!

Plastic bottles don't have near that much difficulty...

The Medics used them on constipated soldiers during WWII.

enema spout. Just warm it up first.

That's a hood hinge, not a Hoo wyan Punch spigot...

Exactly....

You just can't put anything past some of these fellows.

Back in the day huh?


Hahaha!

I'll tell you a bigger mess
At around 17 years or so, I could not find my
oil can tapper doo dad like the subject of discussion.
I needed to open a can of Uniflow oil and the
only thing at hand was my old school heavy
brass and wood Buck 110.
Needless to say, I stuck the point of it into the
web of my hand between thumb and forefinger
in one side and out the other and into the
can of motur awl .
That's one thing I don't think I'll ever forget no
matter how many cobwebs I get behind my
eyeballs

Probably never seen a pull tab on a can of beer/coke either.

Of course I have...

if you had a really sharp one they worked fairy well.

hell im 41 and knew lol

I spent my fair share of time on the full service pumps.

There were good ones and the rest of them sucked. If you had a sharp one they were OK. But if it was dull, the cardboard would just crush down.

Then it depended on whether or not it leaked and ran oil all down on the manifold. You might have a sharp one but the SOB might leak. Some of them could be a real PITA.

The easiest thing was a church key and a funnel.

I can remember the first time I saw a can like that and having been shown how to open it. I think mid 70s.

You'd better need a full can of oil because there's no putting the cap back on with that thing. What you don't use will be spilled sooner or later.