Oil bottle

Things a soldier would carry other than firearms, ammo, or uniforms. Meaning equipment such as ammo pouches, bayonets, holsters, oil cans, cleaning equipment, etc.

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Oil bottle

Post by Dutch Mosin » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:27 pm

Found this Chinese Mosin Nagant oil bottle on E-bay a couple of days ago.

I collect these items next to my Mosin Nagant rifles and carbines.

I wanted to buy, but hesitated a bit.

I've had some problems over a bought item on E-bay some months ago.

My wife said that for $5.00 I could take a chance. :mrgreen:

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It's one of those items that is very hard to get over here....especially a Chinese one, so I'm very happy I won.

Now I hope they send it over real soon.

It's just a small item.....but I'm one happy collector. :D

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Post by joseyclosey » Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:00 am

Martin, for $5 it was worth a dabble, nice find. :D

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Post by Dutch Mosin » Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:11 am

Thanks Joe.

I think so too.

These items make my collection more complete and they look great in a display.

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Post by joseyclosey » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:36 am

Martin heres a pic of my oil bottle, i cant remember country of origin, but it came in a cleaning kit i picked up years ago.

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The pullthrough is really long with the loop in the middle so its probably more of a pullbackand forth. !!!

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The other little goodies in the kit.

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Everything fits in here.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v14/j ... kit004.jpg[/pic]

I used to also have a canvas scope cover for the sniper rifle but i gave that to Dromia when he acquired his sniper MN.

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Post by Dutch Mosin » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:57 am

Yes sir, that's an early Soviet cleaning kit.

The Cyrillic letters translate to shchalok(left) and neft.

This can be translated to alkaline solution(left) and oil.

This one seems to be, besides the dual compartment oil bottle, unissued.

Most of the time you can find the arsenal on the screwdriver.

Must be somewhere under all that grease. :D

Nice kit Joe.

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Martin
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Post by DuncaninFrance » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:45 am

The pullthrough is really long with the loop in the middle so its probably more of a pullbackand forth. !!!
I think that it was probably the same as our pullthroughs Joe, designed so as armorers and platoon sergeants could extract oversized pieces of 4 x anything from a squaddies barrel when they got it jammed :roll: :roll:
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Post by joseyclosey » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:37 pm

@ Duncan, this pullthrough is twice as long as the SLR item!

@Martin, you were right. Thanks for the info. :D

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Post by Tom-May » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:58 am

I seem to remember that the Bren pull-through was overly long and with a central loop - could it be that the soviets employed a similar pull-through (for whatever weapon) and that you have one?

Just a thought.

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Post by joseyclosey » Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:20 pm

My thinking too Tom.

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Post by Dutch Mosin » Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:13 pm

Joe, here are my other oil bottles.

It took me quite a while to collect these.

Especially the Finnish ones.

The Chinese one will fit right in. :D :D :D

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