Oil Bottles
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Topic: Oil Bottles
Posted By: Shamu
Subject: Oil Bottles
Date Posted: August 25 2008 at 8:55pm
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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? ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: August 25 2008 at 9:35pm
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Shamu-you do Civil war re-enacting?
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: August 26 2008 at 7:47am
| Shamu. the leather gasket on the oil bottles tend to leak a little While storimg the rifle in the upright possition keep the top of the oil bottle facing upward. |
Posted By: ducaninfrance
Date Posted: August 26 2008 at 7:52pm
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SHAMU. I guarantee that every plastic oil bottle I had with my SLR cleaning kits leaked. Most of those bottles would be the same plastic ones as for the SLR I suppose. In the end I emptied the plastic one and left it in my cleaning kit tin (which I still have) and found a small dripper bottle that was oil tight. This also meant my cleaning kit tin was oil free and my 4x2 stayed dry!!! I still have 2 or 3 plastic ones and have not found any material that stops oils leaking out.  ------------- Duncan. Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 26 2008 at 11:44pm
Surprisingly not.
I live within 15 minutes of Antitem & less than an hour from Gettysburg, but don't re-enact
 .The bottles I have are all, all synthetic (if that sentence makes any sense), the washers are rubber, not leather. I was thinking of overcoming my naturally "frugal" nature & getting a couple of brass ones, hoping that the leather washers work better. I guess not
 .The bottles are kept top-up usually, but whenever I keep the rifle level (like during a camping trip) the leak starts, so you're right about it being the seal.
The FAL (SLR) is just the opposite! Because the bottle is stored in the pistol grip it only leaks when stored vertically ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
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