Scooterotica

i use a lucozade sport bottle, i take of the outside label and then stick a bit of masking tape down the side on which i mark off 100ml sections, each 100ml equals 2.5L at 25:1.. so i just squirt in the required amount when required.

I got a Polini one similar to this for shorter jaunts

http://www.psntuning.co.uk/scooter_parts.php?prt_id=717

Otherwise a Motul 2 stroke bottle fits upright into a lamby toolbox nicley.

before the dreaded jug was the dreaded increments down the side of the bottle, converting gallons to litres to millilitres and doing calculations on the pavement in chalk from someones garden to work out what you just put in.......then to realise the printed increments on the label had rubbed off so you had to divide the bottle up into fractions then transpose the fractions.........god it was hell

then oil injection came along........and i never owned a vespa or a cometa for that matter.

dispensing bottles can be bought here, 1/4 1/2 or 1 litre

I've been using some 200ml plastic botles I bought off ebay about 3 years ago. They were about £5 for 6 and I fill them to approx 3/4 full so one shot = 3% with a 5 litre fill up and a full bottle would give 4%. No measuring, just tip it in and add fuel.

There's some on ebay at the moment but they are only 150ml so no good if you need 4%.... not mentioned in the advert

I carry a litre oil bottle in the legshield toolbox. Sometimes I carry two (if one is nearly empty). I can fit more in there, but then there's the tool roll, spare cables, electrical tape, bandaids (what you like to call plasters), and there's room for a bottle or two of beer.

The old fashioned 2% dispensing jug is what I use to measure the 2T. It's small and it fits in the tiny frame toolbox that's now part of the fuel tank. It doesn't get greasy because I clean it with a bit of petrol from the pump after each use. It dries immediately then I wrap it in tissue. It's easier to read if its clean.

Does anyone remember the old two stroke oil shot which was despensed from a pump with a dial on the top, thats what I used in the local garage till they did away with them, most probably as scooters and bike numbers tailed off toward's the end of the 70's & early 80's...

J1MS wrote:Does anyone remember the old two stroke oil shot which was despensed from a pump with a dial on the top, thats what I used in the local garage till they did away with them, most probably as scooters and bike numbers tailed off toward's the end of the 70's & early 80's...

Remember them well- also remember going into a garage in the late 1960's and having problems with that type of dispenser- called the garage owner over (who obviously had had a bad day), who then threw said dispenser down the road spilling 2T oil everywhere, shouting out that "all ******* mods were banned!!"

They're quite collectable these days

Chris

i keep my oil in the bottle it comes in. then when its empty, buy another bottle. does that make me weird?

goldeneye wrote:i keep my oil in the bottle it comes in. then when its empty, buy another bottle. does that make me weird?

Me as well and my measure jug in the legshield toolbox...but I keep it in a plastic bag which gets gooey to say the least, then I bin it and get another..morrisons at the minute and its ready for the bin so have a tasty primeani number lined up

Lam46 wrote:

goldeneye wrote:i keep my oil in the bottle it comes in. then when its empty, buy another bottle. does that make me weird?

Me as well and my measure jug in the legshield toolbox...but I keep it in a plastic bag which gets gooey to say the least, then I bin it and get another..morrisons at the minute and its ready for the bin so have a tasty primeani number lined up

That's a bit difficult as I buy it in a 25l drum

Lots of ideas there,I particularly like the lucozade sport bottle , but even as I sit here typing this I've just spotted what may be the solution - fruitshoot bottles,they are 250ml ,I might see about using them