Opening an Oil Pail without Damage

[Poignard]

Surprised he's let loose full stop, how he got out of the institution is a mystery.

The other inmates threatened to leave unless he was chucked out.

 

[Wansworth]

In short we don't have a clue because in Europe oil is NOT supplied in pails........... but cans or larger quantities in drums (metal) with a handy screw top for easy pouring.

Sort of old fashioned like many things American …….still measure in feet andinches

 

[Poignard]

Sort of old fashioned like many things American …….still measure in feet andinches

...and feet and tenths.

 

[Dellquay13]

I first tried the bread knife!

Is that the Cockney rhyming slang bread knife?
That’s always my first option, to ask the wife to do it…

 

[Mister E]

Its a pail, in which oil is supplied, in smallish but-more-than-typical-punter-quantities, usually about 20L. This one was for AW68 hydraulic oil.

Hydraulic Oil | Compete Guide - Definition, Types, Uses, Benefits, Features

Suggested Nomenclature (Left to right, as illustrated)

1 Pail
2 Jug,
3. Bottle

Suggest "Drum" would come above "Pail"in the volumetric hierarchy.

So why use a word that is also an English is a bucket?

 

[Dellquay13]

So why use a word that is also an English is a bucket?

It’s also used for the ‘tin with carrying handle’ that is often used for larger quantities of paint and suchlike.
To British ears it is a bit archaic though.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

A pail is a bucket, universally, with some exceptions, buckets don’t have lids.

Usually oil comes in bottles, tubs, drums, which usually have child proof lids in the consumer market.

The 42 gallon drums of oil, which h have a rotating, recessed cap, uses a special spanner to turn the cap. If the spanner isn’t available, anything that can grip the inside works. Rotate anti clockwise to secure again.

 

[Poignard]

It’s also used for the ‘tin with carrying handle’ that is often used for larger quantities of paint and suchlike.
To British ears it is a bit archaic though.

The only instance I can recall of the word pail being used is when Jack & Jill took one up a hill to fetch some water.

 

[Wansworth]

The only instance I can recall of the word pail being used is when Jack & Jill took one up a hill to fetch some water.

…..or “beyond the pail”?

 

[Poignard]

…..or “beyond the pail”?

Won't do. That's pale.
But how about pail-face? Who speaks with forked tongue.

 

[Dellquay13]

The only instance I can recall of the word pail being used is when Jack & Jill took one up a hill to fetch some water.

Your spelling is the correct one, I didn’t want to correct someone’s honest mistake.
Here’s an example of one for sale on an auction site.

Pardon our interruption...

But yes, to Brits, Pail is a quaint word for a bucket, but some nations use it as a lidded handled container

 

[Dellquay13]

…..or “beyond the pail”?

In that phrase Pale is derived from the same root word as palisade, and means something from ‘beyond the fence’

 

[Dellquay13]

Won't do. That's pale.
But how about pail-face? Who speaks with forked tongue.

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Now you’re getting all antipodean with Ned Kelly

 

[Poignard]

Your spelling is the correct one, I didn’t want to correct someone’s honest mistake.
Here’s an example of one for sale on an auction site.

Pardon our interruption...

But yes, to Brits, Pail is a quaint word for a bucket, but some nations use it as a lidded handled container

My knowledge of buckets pails into insignificance besides yours

 

[Poignard]

 

[Dellquay13]

My knowledge of buckets pails into insignificance besides yours

In the very distant past I did a year as a decorators mate, where I got my PhD (paper hanging and decorating)

Somewhere I saw a tin of Hempel a/f described as a pail, so that must be in the last 10 years or so

 

[NormanS]

Its a pail, in which oil is supplied, in smallish but-more-than-typical-punter-quantities, usually about 20L. This one was for AW68 hydraulic oil.

Hydraulic Oil | Compete Guide - Definition, Types, Uses, Benefits, Features

Suggested Nomenclature (Left to right, as illustrated)

1 Pail
2 Jug,
3. Bottle

Suggest "Drum" would come above "Pail"in the volumetric hierarchy.

We didn't know, and you didn't tell us, that you are buying your oil in Delhi.

 

[Dellquay13]

I always thought Reading festival was all about shabby looking 70s rock bands like Groundhogs or Budgie

 

[Wansworth]

In that phrase Pale is derived from the same root word as palisade, and means something from ‘beyond the fence’

Yes your right but I suppose you an be beyond the pail in the sense that your outside the bucket?

 

[ducked]

So why use a word that is also an English is a bucket?

Well, reconstructing your words into an English sentence, why not?

I thought of including some synonyms, but TBH it seemed a bit gratuitously insulting