Oil Tight

There is no need to stop driving your van, but stop washing it: make sure that it is oil-tight and that used oil is burnt rather than poured away as half the spilled oil on the ocean comes down the sewers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sealed oil-tight by just their careful craftsmanship and the security of these bolts. ❋ Grouse (2003)

The ANC makes a special appeal to all oil-producing States to join in the embargo already imposed by OAPEC (5) and OPEC (6) members and others, and further to take effective legislative and administrative measures to ensure that their embargoes are watertight - or should I say oil-tight. ❋ Unknown (1981)

The ANC makes a special appeal to all oil-producing States to join in the embargo already imposed by OAPEC52 and OPEC53 members and others, and further to take effective legislative and administrative measures to ensure that their embargoes are water-tight - or should I say oil-tight. ❋ Unknown (1980)

Constant lubrication is needed, and to this end the cover should make an oil-tight fit with the casing, so that the bottom of the big pinion may run in oil. ❋ Archibald Williams (N/A)

All the wagons had been put in complete order, and the journals, fitted with oil-tight boxes, were kept well oiled. ❋ Various (N/A)

The cylinders and water-jackets are of steel, and there is fitted a detachable aluminium cylinder head containing inlet and exhaust valves and valve actuating mechanism; pistons are of aluminium alloy, and there are two inlet and two exhaust valves to each cylinder, the whole of the valve mechanism being enclosed in an oil-tight aluminium case. ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)

Now fully oil-tight, she'll be in action next year and although her calendar is hazy at the moment, we'll let you know where you can see this incredible car. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Automobile Oil Temperature Monitor (includes supply of flexible, heat-resistant oil-tight enclosures) ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the 1960s, small, reliable, oil-tight Japanese machines were gaining momentum. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The author is bound to say that they were, no doubt, influenced by the favorable circumstances of weather, and something is to be allowed also for the great length of train drawn, very long trains having a less tractive resistance per tun on a level than short ones, and something, possibly more than is commonly supposed, may have been due to the use of oil-tight axle boxes, the saponaceous compound known as 'railway grease' being nowhere in use on railways in the States. ❋ Various (N/A)