Scottoiler oil

Having nearly used up my Scottoiler oil, being a naturally tight old git
I had a quick Google and found various suggestions for alternatives
including EP90, chainsaw oil and old engine oil.

Ignoring the jollity of actually having deliberately added something to
a Triumph to make it dribble oil, has anyone on the grope any words of
wisdom or experience on using non-scott oils?

I'll take the "stop being tight and buy the proper stuff" reply as done,
to save time.

 

Mike wrote in

I'd avoid old engine oil. It contains a lot of nasties that can cause skin
problems and it will be more difficult to clean off the excess.

I've used both EP90 and chainsaw oil in the past. I've also used
Agricastrol and multigrade car oil.

Use anything available. Sunflower oil would probably work and is
environmentally friendly. A multigrade oil will keep to a fairly consistent
viscoscity meaning theat you will not have to adjust the flow as often.

I prefer chainsaw oil as it is anti-fling by nature. It is also very cheap
from Makro, B&Q, agricultural merchants etc.

 

Nidge wrote:

and onto the side of your rear tyre. :/

As you say, keeps the chain nice and clean and the rear tyre from
rusting.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Chainsaw oil is what you want - a fraction of the price of Snottoil if
you buy it a gallon at a time.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I think I'll go with the chainsaw oil then - I'm not confident of my
ability to ride and keep two oiled brushes against the chain at the same
time.

 

Sounds like the team agrees (as well as can be expected anyway) on
chainsaw oil then. I'll have a look in B&Q on my way home, or maybe
scrounge some through my neighbour (a tree surgeon) at trade prices.

Thanks to all

 

Mike wrote

This may have something to do with the oft quoted rumour than snotoil is
nothing more than yer actual genuine chain oil with a bit of red dye in
it.

*Not* B@Q. Farm/agricultural/hoticultural machinery suppliers is what
you want. Amazing the everyday stuff they hold at cheap cheap prices,
especially the farm suppliers.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon says...

This is exactly what I do

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember steve auvache

<ding>

It's surprising where farm suppliers are to be found. There's lots of
them around once you look for them.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

So chainsaw oil is the preferred choice then. <makes note>

What about something to carry spare oil but can also be used to fill the
unit?

So far I've been squirting oil in through the breather hole with a fine
nozzled oil can but it's too big to be carried under the seat and would leak
anyway.

 

When I got my snotoiler, I also got a half-litre bottle of oil, which had a
tube with a pointy little nozzle for filling the reservoir. I use this
bottle for the chainsaw oil, and it works just as well as with the original
snotoil.

 

Use chainsaw oil and turn the scottoiler down so it hardly drips any..

I reckon a full scottoiler is good for around 1500 miles.

 

platypus wrote in

IIRC Scottoiler will send you an adapted bottle cap with the filler tube
free of charge. When on a long journey I re-fitted the original bottle
cap and packed the filler tube separately to prevent leakage.

 

PDannyD wrote

Eh?

 

Shampoo bottle and a straw.

 

I've used scotoiler oil, engine oil and vegtable oil. All worked fine.

Haven't tried used engine oil but am sure it would be fine.

Nice way to get rid of old engine oil as well. Might save a few trips to the tip.

 

Um... have you thought that one through?

You have to take it to the tip because (as far as I understand) it has to be
disposed of in a particular way.

Flinging it round the countryside, whilst disposing of it, isn't really very
enviromentally friendly.

But I suppose the same could be said of the normal oil used.

Possibly vegetable oil is the way forward in that regard - not quite sure
how well Tesco's best Sunflower would work, but can't really see why it
wouldn't considering it's mainly cleaning the chain, rather than absolutely
lubricating it.

 

I know Scottoilers are generally well thought of around these parts, but I
really did not get on at all well with the one on my CB500, so I left it on
the bike when I sold it.

It used to just piss oil all over the back tyre, no matter what setting it
was on, or it would lose the small black injector tube and dump it's entire
contents rapidly all over the back wheel..

I am now using an aerosol of Fuchs chain lube and guess what, it flings
itself all over the back tyre also. Just as well I can't GMKD.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Try a 50:50 mix of LM grease and EP90 gear oil, applied with a small
paint brush.

 

I had similar problems with the Snottoiler on the VFR - a couple of
e-mails to the Scottoiler people and they came to the conclusion that
the RMV was FUBARed and needed replacing. £24 and a bit of fiddling
around and normal, 2 drops of oil per minute service was resumed.