Look what I found!
 

While packing up my shop to move to the new place.

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I haven't seen this in years, let alone used it. It's in really good shape. Hate to send it to metal recycling - but I will.

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I bought this 60 year old brand new REO inboard boat motor for $25 about 30-40 years ago. It has never had gas in the tank.

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I had a go-kart when I was a kid that was powered by the lawnmower version of this engine. I hot-rodded the heck out of it. I sanded the head down with a piece of emery paper on a pane of glass - I didn't have any idea how much. Took a drill to the carburetor to get more air and gas into it. That kart eventually gave way to a two-wheel drive racing kart with a Mculloch chain saw engine.

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I was at the swap meet a cuppla weeks ago and someone had about 30 or 40 of those oil spouts strung up under the awning at his booth as decorations.
The self-opening oil spout was the perfect design to meet a particular need, ubiquitous once, useless now. Much like the church key.

Nice story on the boat motor.

That oil spout put a smile on my face. It deserves a place on the shop wall for old times sake.
Neat new old motor you have there, cool story of when you got started wrenching.

Cheers Richard

I would not be scraping that oil spout, but I save everything. Just ask my wife.

The engine reminds me of my brother's and mine first go-kart engine. It was a Westbend 2 stroke washing machine engine that someone turned on its side and canted at an angle about like yours. Carb had an adapter fashioned out of pipe too. We hot rodded it by packing the reed plate with bondo. It didn't have a removable head, but we ported the intake ports by grinding them larger. Used a straight piece of galvanized pipe for the exhaust since we knew nothing about extractors at the time. Ran really well with the mod's, at least until it put the rod thru the side of the case. Not sure how much Dad paid to have it fixed at Lebow's welding in Venice. We knew it'd be a bunch, but when we went to pick it up he said it was gratis. Maybe he liked the fact that we were hot rodding as best we could afford. We couldn't get our driver's license's for a couple more years.

Nice Engine those are cool. Theres only one lobe on the cam that works both valves and the pto is also driven off the cam if im not mistaken.

3,000 years from now archeologists will think it is some sort or phalic symbol involved in pagan ritual.

Good stuff all! Any here remember when there was a metal oil fill adaptor to a mason jar? You would: A) Already have glass mason jars for canning ( your mom) B) buy this metal oil pour adaptor C) pour oil from the can into the qt mason jar, screw the metal adaptor onto jar.

Then when adding oil to your engine use the set up above, as the adaptor was an inverted funnel - way back machine!

I used my church key today. Opened a 30 year old paper can of ATF. Ive been storing a couple cases of oil for someone since 1989. Recently decided he is not coming to pick it up.:D:D

There are a bunch of still full can's of oil in my deceased fathers shop.. Along with some of those spouts. I have often wondered if you could use one on a can of beer. :)

i used to 'stick' a magnetic can opener under the hood of my car for those oil cans.

True. REO worked hard to over complicate the engine. The cam operated two rocker arm like things that were situated so that they opened the correct valve at the correct time. And the output shaft was the end of the camshaft. This was the first engine I had ever seen the inside of and I had no idea how unconventional it was.

Hey if you ever need a funnel to use with that spout, you can borrow this one. I have no idea how old it is or how long I've had it.

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Those oil spouts are still in use everyday in aviation as they still have metal oil cans.

Ha! I know. I still regret getting rid of my big torque wrench. I bought it at a government surplus auction for a few bucks. It had a 1 1/2 inch socket drive and was 8 feet long - four feet on each side of the socket drive. Took a good strong guy just to lift it and at least two men to use it. I measured up to 3000 ft lbs or something ridiculous like that. After keeping it for 10 years or so I scrapped it after realizing I had no earthly need for it. In retrospect I realize that was a dumb idea for getting rid of something so cool.

someone please save that engine dont let him scrap it.

Seriously, you want a couple bucks for that can spout? Nostalgia thing.

I smile every time I see one of those spouts. When I was in college, over the summer I worked at the local Texaco station. There was a rack of oil cans at each pump island, and we had to ask each gas customer if they wanted their oil checked, and of course if it was low, sold a quart of Havoline. One night, at closing time (6pm in those days) the local police dept called and said they were sending a cruiser over to have some oil added. I drew short straw, and got the pleasure of taking care of it.

So up to the pump roars Smitty, the most despised local cop. I grab a can of oil, and the notorious leaker of a spout that was on the rack. You had to know how to hold that spout. Smitty says, I'm in a rush, I'll take care of it, and grabs the can from my hand. He jams it in the valve cover, I barely got "But.." out of my mouth, and the spout comes off the can. All the oil went on the hot exhaust manifold, and there was Smitty , standing in a cloud of blue smoke, spitting and sputtering with a red face. I had to try and stifle a big laugh, and luckily the owner had seen the whole thing and came out to sooth the ruffled feathers. We all had a big laugh after he left.

Yeah, Dad had one of those too. I think my brother has it up at his shop. Used to use it when doing an oil change on Dad's IH Travelall as he used to buy 5 gallon cans of bulk oil. It was easy to use as there's a small hole at the base of the spout to let air in so it won't 'gulp' as the oil drains out.

Have you ever seen one of those with a can puncturing device like the spout shown in the OP incorporated into the funnel?
Now those were really handy but you had to know how to use them right or you'd have oil all over the place. It helped to have a good sized thumb. ;)

Yes, I remember those. Haven't thought of it in many decades. When I worked nights & weekends in a Richfield station in the late '50s, we had a rack in the lube area we kept filled with bottles of oil with screw on tops that were like inverted funnels. We'd fill them from an oil tank with a hand pump and use them for adding oil to customers' cars out in the driveways or doing an oil change in the lube unit.

I forgot all about them Thanks

I have one of those oil can spouts hanging on my garage wall next to my dwell meter and timing light. I also have my first cordless drill, a brace next it it.

For no more room that that old oil spout takes up, I'd hang onto it. Kinda cool.

More moldy stuff from the attic.

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It's pretty obvious what this is in general. It's a folding hand cart. On the handle it says, "Folding Railroad xxxx." The xxxx is not legible and I have not been able to find what the it is. It's kind of cool that the "tires" are rope wound around the steel wheels.


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This is an old Planet Junior vegetable seed planter. Planet Jr. was a major supplier of farm equipment to truck farmers and market garden farmers in the first half of the 20th century. The original company is long out of business but Planet Jr equipment was so well designed that it is still in production by other companies.
All the gears turn freely on this one and I might plant some corn with it this spring.

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Oops. Left out the photo of the cart wheel detail.

my brother still has my can of orignal Quaker State. perfect for the can puncher. (just texted him..yup, he still has it. full can of quaker state.)

what i do love are those old oil cans with the flexible pour hose found in vintage gas stations. there was a station in Pacifica that still used one...i asked the guy how his wasnt stolen yet, the way he left it around.

like this!

(his had a lid)

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Those old implements in such good shape are real treasures.

Patrick, in your spare time, if you want to read the stenciling on the folding cart, try this:

Save out the highest quality 16 bit RGB image you can get off of your camera, (edit - into Photoshop) then convert the RGB to LAB. Give the LAB image as much contrast as you can without losing detail in the 3/4 tones, (use curves or levels or some such attribute - maybe even try threshold?), then scroll through the LAB channels one by one to see if the stencil on the image becomes clear enough to read. You can make tonal adjustments in the individual channels, even invert them or add some sharpening to improve legibility...(I know, I'm not telling you anything, this is just a reminder that LAB sees things that may get lost in other GAMMA.)

Or, don't worry about it and leave it as a mystery. I tried to do it from the image that you posted, but too much detail has been lost in the conversion to web protocol.

Try as I might I still cannot make out the words. I'm having second thoughts about the word "railroad." It may be "Patent"
I this is a mystery I'll keep working on in my spare time

My grandmother said when they were in germany before WWII they always used rope for tires on their bicycles. It looks to say "Folding Railroad Truck"

heres one in action at the 4 minute mark
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Found some things while unpacking my tools this week. Some golden oldies that I haven't used in 40 years. I can probably sell them as antiques on ebay.

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How many of you have ever used one of these?

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I don't remember which one is used on which make.

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I don't know what these things are. Can anyone help?

Looks like they're just using extensions to crank that thing down. I don't see a dial or anyway to adjust the "clicker" if it has one. But yes, from a distance that's what it looked like.

Looks like some fixtures to drill holes to insert dowels in wood joints.

Wait... you put oil in your engine? How does that work? ;)

That first picture looks like it'd be handy for adjusting the dwell on a Chevy distributor if the hex drive is the right size.

Well how else are you going to adjust you tach and dwell? That one is a fancy one.

Those are dowelling jigs used to drill mating holes in wood to align the pieces together when gluing up.
The holes are offset from the side for use with different widths of lumber and typically you would use a dowel 1/2 the width of the piece of wood. 3/8" dowel for a 3/4" thickness of lumber. The hole selected for use should be the one that is lines up with the center of the board.

I used the crooked distributor wrench this week and actually used the points adjuster less than 2 years ago on a 1971 454 Chevy. I also recall being a poor kid getting his ass shocked off setting points with an allen wrench.:eek::eek: