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moonphone #339325 Fri Jul 06 2012 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted By: moonphone
so did all the manufacturers of lubesters adhere to this rule of thumb? that if you make a lubester tank one inch of depth equals one gallon. and the theory that they used inches in case you lost the dip stick. then the dip stick would say gallons. and if you lost it you would know to use a stick or a 3 ft ruler and every inch is a gallon. this will bug me until i put a gallon of water in it tomorrow. i wont sleep to night.


moonphone: in my experience, most product whether it be gas or oil was dispensed in a defined unit of measurement like a quart or gallon.

Inventory however was usually measured in inches. If you had a square tank and you knew how many gallon capacity it was...say a 25 gallon tank...you just checked how many inches were left and you knew when to reorder.

Over the years the size of bulk oil tanks became larger with manufacturers like Aro adding air pressure...but even then most of the garage owners I knew had a wooden measuring stick and they would 'stick' the tank to see how much product was left. Eventually gallon meters were installed on top of the tank so you could see how much product was left in gallons.

Gasoline was the same way, the product in the tanks were measured in inches. We would have to 'stick' the tanks every night. You also have to take into account the shape of the tank. The larger storeage tanks were not square..but cylindrical. Once you determined how many inches were in the tank you looked at a chart that would show you how many gallons there were.

Yours was a good question, got me thinking about how tightly controlled the dispensing of product was, but in reality inventory management wasn't nearly so. Hope that helps some.

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Ok, so i put two gallons of water into the tank. And considering i didn’t use a device calibrated by the NYS dept of weights and measures, it was pretty accurate. It was off by about a pint. So 2 inches means two gallons. My thinking is that there must have been a standard that you tank must size up with your dip stick that an inch is a gallon?

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All Oil Dispensers when new had tags on them informing the "new" owner how big the tanks were.... Of course in time and usage a number of tags were knocked off/destroyed. At times the gauge sticks were also misplaced and/or destroyed... As long as the owner/attendant/bulk driver had a general idea of how big the tank was... They could/would make their own gauge sticks.... (same as the gauge sticks for the gasoline bulk tanks)...

Everything worked out okay....


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Originally Posted By: moonphone
My thinking is that there must have been a standard that you tank must size up with your dip stick that an inch is a gallon?


No. You're over thinking the whole process.

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what are the dimensions of the tank itself? just the width and depth, not the height...


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actually i did find a tag on the inside of the tank. a little bit bigger then an index card. stick to the inside of the tank. it oil soaked so i cant make out what it says. i have is saved and to the side until i figure out what i can do with it. i don't want to wet it cause i don't want it to fall apart. what would be a quick way to get all of this thick paint off? paint remover? its so thick that i want to remove some before i sand blast. thinking of maybe just burning it off?

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i think we are also Ohio, company that made the tank might have had there own sticks made for there tanks. when the oil truck showed up, you just looked inside and figured out how much you needed by looking inside the tank. it wasn't rocket science.

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well now i know what brand i'm going with on the lubester. this is what i found after i carefull removed some paint from the sticker on the front. and the size of the tank is 16x19x24.

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here's what i found after removing paint. is this decal still being re-produced?

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Yes, it's commonly available as a reproduction decal. Also available in 12" porcelain signs. Referred to as the round Texaco Petroleum Products decal.


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thansk dave, but i cant seem to find the one with the black out lined "T".

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You can always fix that with a permanent black felt marker or pin striping.


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Moonphone, how are your other projects coming along?

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one of the parking meters is done. the bennett is done, the M+S 80 just needs the doors put on. ill post a pic of the 80.

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ok heres the lubester blasted, and powder coated. now its just re-assembly.

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