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Hi all, I picked up an old lubester today, and it’s awesome. But of course, the porcelain plate displaying whatever brand was used with it is gone. Is there any other way to identify what brand would’ve been on/in it? I have a few pictures (not the best). But it does say opaco on it and the lid has a sort of plus sign design in the metal (not sure if they were all like that). Thank you for the help.

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...OPACO is just the manufacturer's name...you might be able to tell from any vestiges of original decals on the pump...it's possible the oil company that used this lubester could be determined by the placement of the screw holes left by the now-absent sign...


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I don't know what oil company used it, but it was made by the "Oil Products Appliance Company (OPACO) of Maywood, Illinois. When I wrote my first gas pump book I used a lot of pictures of this type of dispensers, but in my last book I removed everything that was not gas pump related, but I do have some ads, so I would say your dispenser is probably from around 1930. Now, why is it green? Years ago these dispensers were sometimes painted colors depending on what was in the dispenser. green was many times used to indicate kerosene.

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Originally Posted by gulfiend!
...OPACO is just the manufacturer's name...you might be able to tell from any vestiges of original decals on the pump...it's possible the oil company that used this lubester could be determined by the placement of the screw holes left by the now-absent sign...

Originally Posted by Jack Sim
I don't know what oil company used it, but it was made by the "Oil Products Appliance Company (OPACO) of Maywood, Illinois. When I wrote my first gas pump book I used a lot of pictures of this type of dispensers, but in my last book I removed everything that was not gas pump related, but I do have some ads, so I would say your dispenser is probably from around 1930. Now, why is it green? Years ago these dispensers were sometimes painted colors depending on what was in the dispenser. green was many times used to indicate kerosene.

Jack Sim


Thank you for the help guys, this is pretty frustrating but worst case scenario I’ll just make into whatever I want to, but I like keeping things as they should be.

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i have 2 cranks that have the oil co. name on them does you cranks say anything can't tell in the pics
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