Mosin Nagant Oil/Solvent container question

[n9iui]

I was wondering if anyone knows which side of the Oil/Solvent container is which. One side has a Cyrillic character that looks like an up-side down m and the other is closer to an h. I know, as long as I know which is which, that's all that matters. I think it would be cool to put the stuff in the correct side though.

Does anyone know?

 

[2cool9031]

I just checked mine and it has a S and a U on it. That particular one is square, not the usual round design. On the round design ones I have it seems both sides have a little grease in them. Now I am wondering too.

 

[Mgderf]

I was wondering if anyone knows which side of the Oil/Solvent container is which. One side has a Cyrillic character that looks like an up-side down m and the other is closer to an h. I know, as long as I know which is which, that's all that matters. I think it would be cool to put the stuff in the correct side though.

Does anyone know?

One side is for the right stuff, what's left goes in the other side

 

[paperboy]

If I'm not mistaken the Russians would mix oil and gasoline (or diesel) so when they cleaned their guns the action would not gum up in the severe cold. I doubt it would matter which side you put the oil/solvent in.

 

[n9iui]

I just checked mine and it has a S and a U on it. That particular one is square, not the usual round design. On the round design ones I have it seems both sides have a little grease in them. Now I am wondering too.

Yeah, mine had a dab of cosmoline in both sides too.

 

[n9iui]

I just checked mine and it has a S and a U on it. That particular one is square, not the usual round design. On the round design ones I have it seems both sides have a little grease in them. Now I am wondering too.

I was doing some Googling and it looks like your square container with S and U is Romanian! Mosin Nagant Rifle Accessories

 

[n9iui]

I found my answer on Buymilsurp.com.

Щ => Щелочное решение = alkaline solution
Н => Нефть = oil

Guess I should have trusted the Google in the first place, but ingunowners is the first place I thought of!