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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
Looks right on the drain and fill, probably a splash feed with a little blade on the bottom of the con rod (dipper-slinger). For oil I'd check for recommendations but 20 or 30 weight would probably be fine,doesn't even need to be detergent.
regards
mech
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I also have an old Sears air compressor (that one looks older than mine) and it says to use 30 weight non-detergent oil. I did some reading up and determined that you can use detergent oil if you need to - plus, multi-weight oils aren't the big issue they used to be. If you can't find straight weight oil a 10w30 will do - although within 30 seconds I found that Advanced still has 30w conventional oil. I have a bottle that I use for this purpose - I'm guessing 10 years old at this point. I change every other year or so and it doesn't use much.
Oh and those 2 drain plugs are the ones: lower to drain, upper to fill (Don't forget to put the lower one back in BEFORE you try to fill. I tried it the other way and it leaks all over!! Big mess!)