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    Oil Bottles

    Ever wonder what the inside of an oil bottle looks like?... Well maybe its just me and my OCD disorder. I recently managed to acquire a few extra oil bottles and after sorting through them into various manufacturers differences in a vain effort to ID what's, Britishicon, Canadianicon, Australianicon and New Zealand made bottles I decided to sectionalise to see the design on the inside. What I learnt was they were all made from Bakelite, that Bakelite stinks and that there is a unique odor to each countries bottles due to the formulation used with the phenol formaldehyde resin. mmmmm yum.

    Left are Australian Bottles, right are the two NZ made bottle


    There I believe are Canadian variations


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    Quote Originally Posted by nzl1a1collector View Post
    Bakelite stinks and that there is a unique odor to each countries bottles due to the formulation used with the phenol formaldehyde resin.
    Do not some forms of Bakelite contain Asbestos fibres? A quick internet search seemed to suggests that some do and some may not? Sorry to be a kill-joy.

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    No worries about being a kill-joy, I'm already dying.... its terminal....... I only have about 40 years left so I might as well make the most of it. That's the problem when you start breathing air.... it starts to kill you, there's no escape.

    Its possible the Australianicon bottle may have an asbestos filler, there certainly some form of fiber mixed into the Bakelite, that's why it has the rough edges. The rest don't appear to have a filler in them.

    I have another 11 to sectionalise

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    Quote Originally Posted by nzl1a1collector View Post
    There I believe are Canadianicon variations
    Without them in hand...they look right.
    Regards, Jim

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    Interesting project Kev, the thought of sectioning oil bottles (along with a rough SUIT and bayonet) had crossed my mind.

    So if you need a check up from the neck up for L1 OCD, I will likely be taken away too mate...

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    I believe that I have one or two Canadianicon versions of the bakelite oil bottle and I may have more than one style of Canadian version. I will have to dig them out at some point but, from memory, one of them only has the tiniest of Canadian acceptance markings on the base to identify it as being Canadian issue and could easily be missed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrclark303 View Post
    Interesting project Kev, the thought of sectioning oil bottles (along with a rough SUIT and bayonet) had crossed my mind.

    So if you need a check up from the neck up for L1 OCD, I will likely be taken away too mate...
    I've thought about doing a SUIT sight, basing it on the ones done for SKN rifles, I have a mate that could do it but it would have to be when he's not busy with work... I could be waiting for a while.

    Recently I've managed to find a number of unique new items, that I will titillate you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying10uk View Post
    I believe that I have one or two Canadianicon versions of the bakelite oil bottle and I may have more than one style of Canadian version. I will have to dig them out at some point but, from memory, one of them only has the tiniest of Canadian acceptance markings on the base to identify it as being Canadian issue and could easily be missed.
    All the bottle I've looked at have no Canadian markings, ........ I've carefully examined them. We have large quantities of Bakelite oil bottles and I believe this is because we were reequipped after WW2 with No. 4 Mk. 1* rifles of Long Branch and Savage production, which came with oil bottles and spares, these would of kept NZ supplied until the SLR was withdrawn in 1988. The Australianicon bottles would of come with the L1A1 SLR rifles shipped between 1959 - 1967.

    I would be interested to see 'known' Canadian examples so I can confirm the designs that belong to them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nzl1a1collector View Post
    Canadianicon examples
    Thing is, we were issued lots of different oil bottles, I expect many came through the supply system in CFE and returned with us during repat...I think if I check my leftovers, there'll be a bit of everything and I don't recall CA markings.
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    The Canadianicon acceptance marking on the bottom of the bakelite oil bottle is just about the most easily missed CA marking that you are likely to encounter. This is because it is small and feint. I was only aware of it because the vendor pointed it out to me and charged me a premium over unmarked examples for the privilege to own it. I'll dig it out and photograph it later, if I can find it.

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    Here are some pictures of 2 oil bottles both of which, it is my understanding, are of Canadian issue/manufacture. The first 3 pics are of the oil bottle which I have referred to earlier and I have included 2 shots of the base for clarity. The "C" and the arrow appear out of alignment but both can be made out in the pictures. I think that I have another similar oil bottle with fainter markings but this is not to hand at present. The other oil bottle, last 2 pics, I understand to be made in Canadaicon by a firm called something like "Dominion Plastics" hence the initials on the cap but I stand to be corrected on this one.
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