Thread: Rega oil cans

The 1/2 pint can looks shabby with it's peeling paint but has not one dent. Even the handle's straight. The little shearer's can has been a 30 year companion. Filled with kero and neatsfoot oil for sharpening my chisels and plane blades.

BT

Real nice Bob.

I sometimes see those old cone shaped cans, but have never gone down that path.

My Bro In law has one just like that for his shearing hand piece, I recon lots of farmers/shearers still use them.

They may even have been part of the original shearing handpiece kit (being all Australian).

Nothing to go wrong with those old cone (boinking) oilers.

Good stuff.

Cheers

Rob

At the swap meet today, a few vendors were selling oil company oil cans and the pint bottles - some items were as late as the 1960's , Ampol, BP and so on . The prices asked were rather high , just think of all those cans you threw away years ago

One vendor had a lot of new Chinese lathe tooling , I almost choked when I saw the prices on the stuff it was x 3 times the price of what you can buy from CDCO or CTC . Mike

Originally Posted by nearnexus

, I recon lots of farmers/shearers still use them.





Rob

The day I see a farmer with a grease gun or a oil can in his hand, I will win tattslotto I reckon. Same odds .

Where was the swap meet Mike ?

You sometimes get the odd tooling bargain at those meets, even from the dealers -rare.

I got my Waldown tool post grinder from a Sunday flea market on a school oval for $100.

Got to get a winner some times.

Rob

Originally Posted by morrisman

The day I see a farmer with a grease gun or a oil can in his hand, I will win tattslotto I reckon. Same odds .

Yep, most of the oil on farms is the stuff drippiing out of the tractor hydraulics.

There's nothing like the oily smell of a tractor cab on a warm summers day

Rob

Originally Posted by nearnexus

Where was the swap meet Mike ?

You sometimes get the odd tooling bargain at those meets, even from the dealers -rare.

I got my Waldown tool post grinder from a Sunday flea market on a school oval for $100.

Got to get a winner some times.

Rob

It was at Lardner Park . The vehicles on display were many and from all eras . Spotted at least three Falcon GTHO 's or replicas of . Many old trucks and a few vintage bondwood caravans too . And the stationary engines running and burping - and a jumping Lanz tractor , it was stationary but jumping up and down like a grasshopper as the engine turned over

Some of the vendors at swap meets have had a shed cleanout and just about give away the stuff . Others ask silly prices for rubbish .

Originally Posted by morrisman

It was at Lardner Park . The vehicles on display were many and from all eras . Spotted at least three Falcon GTHO 's or replicas of . Many old trucks and a few vintage bondwood caravans too . And the stationary engines running and burping - and a jumping Lanz tractor , it was stationary but jumping up and down like a grasshopper as the engine turned over

Some of the vendors at swap meets have had a shed cleanout and just about give away the stuff . Others ask silly prices for rubbish .

Yeah, I love those sort of events.

Great just strolling around checking out the stuff on a sunny day.

Never know what you might see.

Sometimes you see some interesting stuff.

All those country shows have a Lanz jumping around and a few old steam engines. Great stuff.

I pick up large reduced shank drills at sites like that. They go fairly cheap and are expensive to buy.

Worth watching out for.

Cheers

Rob

Originally Posted by Gavin Newman

I have one that looks like that but it has a spray nozzle on the end (I use it for oiling the ways) so I can't say about pumping under pressure. The other Reilangs that I have pump well, I've bent some of the nozzle tubes to enable me to keep the body of the pump more or less upright. The oil pickup in the reservoir is angled towards the front of the reservoir so they will pick up oil at a reasonable angle. I can take some photos if you think it would assist.

Rgds - Gavin

I'm interested in some Reilang photos Gavin.

Bob.

Hey Bob,
I've got an identical cone-shaped oil can. It was full of crud when I got it. Took a fair bit of cleaning. I've never found a use for it. The 68 weight hyd oil I use on my lathe goes everywhere when I invert the can. I might put sharpening oil in it too.

I've also got an old dome shaped 'boinker' with a long spout, but it needs a new o-ring.

Chris

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

I'm interested in some Reilang photos Gavin.

Bob.

Apologies for the photo quality but it should give you an idea.

This is one I left unmodified, they came with a thick plastic reservoir, the cap has a rubber o-ring so nothing leaks out when you upend the bottle
oilcan_unmodified.jpg

A bit of judicious bending of the spout on one made it more convenient when oiling points on the cross slide and compound etc.
oilcan_modified.jpg

They market this as a "spray" nozzle but with Vactra 2 in it it's more like a squirt, very handy for oiling the ways.
oilcan_spray.jpg

And this is what the internals look like, the pickup is angled so that it draws oil while the unit is angled.
oilcan_internals.jpg

Rgds - Gavin

Thank you Gavin,

I had liked the metal bodied version, the older ones I've seen photos of had "Reilang" tastefully embossed on them, but the plastic bodied can won't dent. A great advantage. They are available new for around 50 bucks on German Ebay, not much more than I forked out for the Spezial. Maybe I need one for my Swiss mill.

BT

Morrisman thank you for posting the drawing.
Had no work today so i pulled the bottom out of the can and found a ball rusted in the bottom of the pump tube, cleaned everything and found a new ball, resoldered the bottom[not as good as the factory soldering job] and it's pumping 4 to 5 feet with Tellus68 oil.
And the missus wonders what i do all day when there's no work.

I tried out the $8 Rega this morning and it works a treat.

Whitey I had to re-solder the stem on one of my cans (the small blue one with the dents in the stem) as it was split along the seam and I used a small tip on my LPG torch to remelt the solder. Dead easy and did a neat job as you could tip the can to run the solder any /which way. Bit like re-building a car radiator.

I think this is the best way to repair these cans, rather than using a soldering iron.

How did you do yours?

Cheers

Rob

Originally Posted by Gavin Newman

I'm also a fan of the older Rega cans, I have a couple that were from my grandfather's shed and are still giving me good service. The only decent new cans I've found so far are the German Reilang brand.

No, not German at all. The world famous Reilang oil cans are made by Ernst Haussmann & Co. AG in Zurich, Switzerland. Yes, you hand these down to your kids. They have a double pump that lets them work even if hold upside down. And you can buy today spare parts for a Reilang oil can made in 1948. Sorry, but their website is only in German language. Nevertheless, a Swiss will be offended if you call him a German.... Switzerland is not even a member of the European Union.

reilang

They make two ranges of oil cans: "Reilang Solution", the Original, arguably the best oil can that money can buy. And "Reilang Essential", for those that do not expect spare parts to be available one day when their yet unborn kids may need them....