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Chain Olier - Home made.
Hi,

So most chain oilers are above £40, the home made ones are mostly less than a tenner, and more fun to make.

So I want to make one, any body got any ideas, or have the detials of a working home made one they want to make public !!!
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O-rings
I have a shaft drive bike but was just told that Scottoilers don't lube the o-rings on such chains. Worth looking into I think. Linzi.
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i dont believe that Linzi, not if they are fitted properly anyway. my scotoiler drops the oil directly onto the o-rings. it then creeps out from there to cover the rest of the chain.

for do it yourself ones, google lubeman its about the most common one i can think of.
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Another plug for Loobman
Simple but well sorted system. Tested and proven by couriers.

LOOBMAN - manual chain lubrication system for all motorcycles with regular, O-Ring and X-Ring chains
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Go on E-bay and search chain oilers. There is a guy who'll sell you a set of instructions for a really neat, simple solution. He gives the £4 to Riders for Health, so I'm not going to the post the design "Secret", but lets say the parts can be bought at any DIY chain and cost a lot less than the Scotoiler or Loobman.

Scotoilers are IMHO utter garbage. I ran one on the F650 and the flow was totally and utterly uncontrollable. You could have "Sahara in August" or "Exon Valdez", nothing in between. If you set it to dry it would loose it's priming and you had a noisy, filthy, hand burning, smoke inhaleing job to fill all the pipes again. Glad I didn't have to drill a carb to fit this overpriced junk.

Oilers do work. The F650 with the ****oiler then a basic one used two chains in 42000 miles, the Bonneville with a sidecar is now on 15000 miles on the first chain and only halfway adjusted. I expect that to go over 20000 miles.

Of course MZ had the perfect solution. I've had 50000 miles out of an industrial chain with the MZ enclosure keeping grease in and it's a lot easier to strip and clean than a BMW spline.

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Hooli, you could be right. The guy DID say, "The Scottoiler doesn't lube the o-rings". Maybe he meant the one he was looking at. That would make sense. The Scottoiler had two prongs, each at an edge of the chain. That said, the reservoir was empty anyway. I thought I could put in anything-even olive oil, for one journey. Told no, so got chain lube. Linzi
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Scotoilers are IMHO utter garbage. I ran one on the F650 and the flow was totally and utterly uncontrollable. You could have "Sahara in August" or "Exon Valdez", nothing in between. If you set it to dry it would loose it's priming and you had a noisy, filthy, hand burning, smoke inhaleing job to fill all the pipes again. Glad I didn't have to drill a carb to fit this overpriced junk.
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I have had mixed experiences with Scottoilers.I have had the one that is fitted on my VFR for over twenty years.I gets swapped over each time I change my bike and has never given me any problems at all.I also have one on the Transalp.I got this one second hand about a year ago.It behaves just as you descibed,either no flow or emptying itself rapidly.Why I do not know.No amout of fiddling with it or trying different oils seems to help.
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