Oil Bottles

[Flying10uk]

Crown Immunity.

Hasn't this come to an end after a change in the law?

[Charlie303]

A fellow shooter, seeing me with an L1A1, said 'you may as well have this', and handed me a very battered green box, which was good of him. He said it would be the correct cleaning kit for an L1A1. I squirreled it away and forgot all about it until I saw this thread. It's nice to have the correct accessories for the rifle, sling, bayonet... oil bottle.

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The oil bottle doesn't appear to be bakelite. I'd say, pretty confidently, that it's plastic. It also has a fairly modern looking O-ring, that doesn't look quite right.

So, does anyone know if it is a later type of oil bottle that would have been used with the L1A1?

Cheers.

[browningautorifle]

a fairly modern looking O-ring

I think it should have a flat washer...

[Charlie303]

Yes, thanks Jim, quite agree. I noted the flat washers on the original post. It's a new neoprene o-ring, too modern for the bottle. It'll have to go!

[Peter Laidler]

The oil bottles originally came with a leather and then a fibre sort of washer and then a crap flat rubber/neoprene washer. The flat rubber ones used to squash outwards and made the oil bottle leak. Then the round neoprene ones ones came on stream with an LV6 MT? type part number indicating that they were a B vehicle part. They didn't bulge outwards, were a stock item anyway so solved the problem. But please, please don't tell anyone that I told you this because they'll be putting me into the nerdy oil bottle collecting fiends category.

[browningautorifle]

nerdy oil bottle collecting fiends

Show us your collection of oil bottles then?

[CINDERS]

What! Peter collects oil bottles, does that mean he is nerdy like me, nope no one is as nerdy as me..................