Oil can
An oil can - also called an oiler - is a mostly closed container for lubricating oil that is often used for technical maintenance .
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An oil can helps with the lubrication of bearings and at the same time stores the lubricant so that it is available at short notice and in any small quantities if necessary. The areas to be lubricated usually only require a little oil. An extended spout is often available for areas that are difficult to access.
Oil cans are often equipped with a small finger-operated piston pump that allows the oil to be dosed as required.
Previously measured quantities of a lubricant are also filled or refilled into the reservoir of a machine through an oil can. An example of this is the oil change in an internal combustion engine , which is often filled with new engine oil from an oil can with a measuring scale and a nozzle .
An oil can is usually made of sheet metal or plastic and holds quantities between 0.2 and 5 liters.
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Although the use of a traditional oil can for lubricating moving parts is largely obsolete in modern motor vehicles, a stylized representation of an oil can is used, for example, in the oil pressure warning light on the dashboard or in the instrument cluster .
See also
literature
- Editing of the Wirtschafts-Magazin (ed.): Brief Lexicon for Merchants. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1954, p. 103.
- Wolf-Dieter Franke: Lubricants and their application. C. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 978-3-4461-0027-5 , pp. 132, 152.
- Gert Westhoff: Practical lubrication technology in operation. Vulkan-Verlag, 1963, pp. 154, 216.