Oil Bottles

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   I got a "maintenance kit" for the Enfield a while back, as it seemed to be a useful accessory for the rifle.
It came with a plastic oil bottle.
The kit was filled & put in the recess in the butstock as a field cleaning kit, just the way it was designed.

Then there's a puddle of oil on the floor under the rifle..

It sems that the oil bottle's seal is leaking & the oil is saturating everything in the buttstock & then leaking onto the floor.

OK, so I clean up everything & put the leaky bottle aside.
Then I find that the (different design) oil bottle in my Imbel-built SLR is doing the same thing, but this time it's the pistol grip that is saturated.

Next I have 2 more oil bottles in an armourer's maintenance kit for the SLR (3rd design) & they leak everywhere too.

I finally gave up & bought a brass oil bottle from a black powder vendor at a re-enactment suttlers market & guess what.....it doesn't leak, ever, at all.

All of the plastic bottles seem to have a problem with the sealing washer/ring. I say this because unless the seal is in use (like when the bottles are stored top up) ther is no leak.

AArrrghhhhh!

Any ideas/suggestions to let me keep oil bottles stored in the rifle(s) as they were supposed to be?