You know those old-fashioned drip oilers? A cylinder of glass, clamped between two brass saucers, a needle-valve at the top and a threaded fitting at the bottom, with a nozzle and a little fiber plug so the oil goes drip, drip, drip at a slow and steady rate? Found all over antique machinery, especially on moving parts where connection to a central oil supply would be tricky? Common on steam engines? Used for one of the folk entomology stories about where the phrase "the real McCoy" comes from, a "McCoy Company" being a supposed manufacturer of them?
Amazon sells them. A bunch of different kinds.
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