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Wall-Mounting Clips for Oil Cans?

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Pete W.:
Hi there, Fluted Chamber, Eugene and Gary,

Thank you for your posts.

Fluted Chamber, are you in the UK?  I've spent my working life in the UK electrical and electronic engineering industries and I've never seen conduit clips like the one in your picture.  I have seen clips like that for mounting large hi-power wirewound resistors.

Eugene, the tools I'm planning to mount behind the lathe are all items that, of necessity, require the lathe to be stopped before they're fitted.  The 'wall-zone' concerned is behind the tail-stock end of the lathe - the motorising unit & counter-shaft clutch take up most of the space behind the head-stock end.

Gary, the tools to which you linked are clones of the Terry tool-clips I mentioned in my original post.  I do have a stock of them in various sizes and I shall use them for such items as the draw-bar for my Clarkson chuck and the 'bumper-bar' I use to expel Morse Taper items from the head- or tail-stock.

I just have a yen to use Wesco clips for Wesco oil cans.

Slightly  :offtopic: but I've recently filled the ML7 QC Gear-box with SAE 30 oil using one of these:



It did the job fine but now it's an oily fluff & grit magnet!!   :doh:   :doh:   :doh: 
How do you guys store yours when it's off-duty?  I suppose I could put it in a polythene bag and sneak it into the cupboard under the kitchen sink!   :lol:  :lol:   :lol: 

awemawson:
I somehow have ended up with two of those nightmares  :bang:

OK they function just about if you need to suck oil out of inaccessible places, or squirt it into filling holes where the designer didn't think you'd need to be a contortionist.  However they leak horribly, and oil passes the seal in the plunger and gets above the plunger, so when you pull it up it squirts oil from the 'gland'  :( They also drip oil for hours after use.

Mine live in a plastic crate along with a couple of big grease guns, and needless to say the bottom of the crate is horrid !

Sid_Vicious:
The oil syringe pictured is a nightmare to use, the only way I have had some luck with it  is to screw it apart and let the seal on the plunge sit in oil for a couple of days before use. Then the seal is so full of oil it actually seals.
Another solution is to go to a drugstore and buy some really big syringes and put a piece of hose on it. The biggest I can get locally is 50cc so if there is much oil that shall go into the machine I would try alternative one.  But to not have the oil dripping after use tie the hose up against the body with a strips and hang it up on the wall.

Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew and Sid, thank you for your posts.


--- Quote from: Sid_Vicious on May 13, 2014, 09:40:22 AM ---SNIP
Another solution is to go to a drugstore and buy some really big syringes and put a piece of hose on it.
SNIP

--- End quote ---

Sid, I don't think my oil syringe can be dismantled.
Your post reminded me of a drugstore experience - I really should have known better!!  One of my other hobbies/interests/vices is microscopy.  Someone wrote in one of the microscopy magazines that hypodermic syringe needles were really good to use as probes to move parts of specimens about while mounting them on slides.  Next time I was in our local branch of Boots I approached the pharmacy counter and naively asked if they sold hypodermic needles.  The result resembled the scene you get when you lift a paving slab off an ants' nest, but scaled-up to human dimensions!  I took it that the answer was 'no'!

Some months later, I had a short spell in hospital and on discharge was sent home with a handful of syringes pre-loaded with heparin and a sharps receptacle for their safe disposal after use.  Needless to say, none of the syringes got into the sharps receptacle - they're all in the microscopy tools box!

We did experiment with refilling our own printer ink cartridges - the refill kits come with syringes and needles, too small to use to fill my QC gear-box though.   

Lew_Merrick_PE:

--- Quote from: Pete W. on May 13, 2014, 10:16:45 AM ---Your post reminded me of a drugstore experience - I really should have known better!!  One of my other hobbies/interests/vices is microscopy.  Someone wrote in one of the microscopy magazines that hypodermic syringe needles were really good to use as probes to move parts of specimens about while mounting them on slides.  Next time I was in our local branch of Boots I approached the pharmacy counter and naively asked if they sold hypodermic needles.  The result resembled the scene you get when you lift a paving slab off an ants' nest, but scaled-up to human dimensions!  I took it that the answer was 'no'!
--- End quote ---

Here in the U.S. such "responses" are common in pharmacies and clinics.  However, veterinarian's do not seem to have such an immediate call the cops response.  I normally get large bore sharps for injecting adhesives from my local vet hospital.

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