Servus! I did think actually that i hadn't heard you mention the Scottoiler at all on your Eurotrip videos (my German is a little slow to catch everything, so i might have missed it!) Which can only be a good thing. When it works you don't notice it.

My pleasure! I reckon it's a good spot. Haven't seen one there so far! Cheers!

That's far less than ideal mate! Luckily I've not run into similar trouble. TBH I'd sooner trust the vacuum system than electrics on something that gets wet quite a lot!!

Thank you most muchly!

Thanks very much! I think that these warts and all videos are sometimes way more useful than when everything goes to plan!

Ha! Thanks again! That's maybe not such a bad idea! Maybe a 10,000 subs comedy compilation?! Just need another 4900 odd subs now...

Even the handiest among us have to resort to blunt force once in a while! ;) Hammer, gaffa tape and WD40 is all you ever really need!

Everybody knows that Centrifugal force is centripetal force's imaginary friend! ;D

+disekjoumoer Oh yes! Fuel economy is down to 25 MPG now. I blame the sun lounger mostly. The toaster was difficult as it's gets hot between the legs. Great in winter mind.

I know! That's another thing that my Dad's fully stocked garage had and that i miss now that i can't borrow it! Cutting pipes that were there 'since birth' is always an unrelaxing task isn't it. Still, vac pipe is at least quite cheap to replace if it had all gone south / when it eventually all goes south!!! So far it seems to be working!... so far. ...

I used to be scared stiff of that stuff but I learned carbs for two strokes and now I'm pretty relaxed about it. But I don't know much about 4 stroke carbs. Where is the vacuum coming from ? The crank case on the up-stroke ?

I honestly have no idea mate. Though if it's vacuum through the throttle body, would it make sense for it to be created by the 'suck' phase of the cylinders cycle, as it draws the fuel and air in? (Exhaust valve closed, intake open).

I think it may have been the reversing that munched the nozzle on my last oiler. That and any form of actual bracketry to hold it in place! Good tip on the chainsaw oil. I guess it probably has the same thickening and anti fling 'engineering' that the scottoiler stuff does? Fingers crossed for a trouble free Scottoiling experience! Though i suppose shaft drive is the only true fit and forget!

I guess I'm just hoping that the oil is finding it's way in between the plates. It seems to be finding it's way to everywhere else! ;) I'll have a crack at jury-rigging some kind of dual feed at some point. Good luck with your fix.

+Tim Owens Cheers Tim. That's a great tip, if only I'd known before!

+Flatcap007 Excellent! Mine is still going strong. Except for when i left it on prime and c blasted through a whole tank full of oil in 300km!! I think mine is different because it was a Louis special edition. It was only cheaper because of the special offer, cheeky moneygrabbing swines! Mind you, smaller reservoir was easier to conceal! #ThatsWhatSheSaid

No! Don't say that! This is supposed to improve my quality of life, not increase my quantity of faff! I hope they've improved it too. Otherwise they'll be getting some terrible publicity! :D

Andy Man Cam Well, there was a lot more faff to getting it running correctly on yours -- I'm not sure mine had a flow adjustment for example -- so that bodes well for the R&D department. Only time will tell. Mine used to go mental on hot days in Summer I think.

No flow adjustment sounds like an invitation for trouble! I expect that I'll have to get some super sticky treacle-like oil for summer!

Andy Man Cam It was a long time ago and I cannot remember exactly how it worked. I think -- but I am not sure -- that there may have been a twisted nozzle arrangement for rudimentary flow control of sorts. I do remember it being a real pain in the arse to get set up right and it never worked as it should. Still, yours looks better. I hope it works well for you.

So did I! ;D and i didn't have to pay mine! Well, i gave myself a coffee and a biscuit! That bracket was a faff though!

Cheers mate. I remain optimistic, though the negative reviews are gaining some traction! I guess only time (and hopefully patience) will tell!

Just don't forget the chain. Even though you have an oiler it still good to clean crap off it now and then. Yeah you are adding another chain care item into the mix so it is worth it.

Look after your chain and it looks after you. The more care you take of it the better. I've still got the Kettenmax doohicky for periodical diesel bathing! Hopefully I've just stretched out the intervals to a few times a year instead of monthly mess-fests!

Cheers BRS. Not overly useful, but it'd be a helluva ride to 'the workshop'!!

I'm interested to see how that turns out, after my failed attempt to make the simple one work!

Sometimes the nonsense that leaps forth from my gob even worries me. But thanks for enduring! ;)

+Chris Esser Very sound advice! When I was at home, my dads extensive tool collection was always 'just there'. But now I'm starting from scratch! Maybe I'll start with a Dremel, before I graduate to full on angle grinder?!

Dremels are _amazing_ especially for all the little crap, like fitting a gauge, or carving out a path for a wire where plastic panels rub. They are a portable, poor man's machine shop. Just realize that a Dremel gets its power from RPMs and not torque. When you are slowing them down, you are straining the motor, back off and let the speed and the fitted cutter do the work. _Always_ wear goggles with a Dremel, those cutoff wheels and flying burrs of metal or plastic are no joke with your eyes. I am partial to the variable speed, non flex cable type of Dremel, they last the best. Dremels are best on softer materials, Aluminum and plastics and of course wood. Angle grinders are beasts, for cutting through heavier materials where a Dremel is more about 1/8" and thinner materials for smaller shaping and cutting.

+Chris Esser I've always got the glasses on. My eyeballs are like magnets to every sharp object in the workshop!! I've broken enough dremel tools in the past to know that safety pays! One day I'll have it all. One day....

Good news about the clips! Hoping to never have to touch them again! I didn't want to mess with the spigots on the throttle bodies as i have a pipe connecting them which allegedly provides some balancing effect. Also that would have entailed disconnecting and removing the petrol tank and therefore all of the cowling Panels along with it. A faff i could not be faffed with! Quick and dirty on this occasion. I also didn't want to wait for Scottoiler to send me the adapter and i certainly didn't want to pay any more money! Quicker and dirtier still! Plus i get a kick out of using what's available! I also didn't like the position scottoiler suggested for the reservoir. I felt it was too horizontal and as such wasted a few thousand miles worth of oil capacity. I did watch the official video though. Forwarned is forearmed! :D Cheers Alex!

Sorry about that.

Cheers Mr KD!

*in the arse that is...

Cheers! Yeah it's pretty nipsy here right now! Though I'm just waiting for a bright AND dry day when i have time off work to go out and make the first video of 2016. Planets don't seem to want to align for me though!

Thanks very much. I think you might just have a very good point there! A bad workman blames his tools, but what does a workman with NO tools blame?!

Cheers mate. That was my biggest fear. Chopping too enthusiastically and then having a redundant chain oiler installed why i try and locate more pipe of the right size!

It's probable that provision for proper planning and preparation, potentiality puts people in a position where prevention of piss poor performance is a possibility.

Touché, Sir.

I'm hoping they'll last for ages! If i'd had more, I'd probably have plastered the swingarm with them! Time will tell i suppose. Fingers crossed!!!

The Handy man can! Cheers IR. You too mate.

The T-Piece was in the kit, so I'm afraid I don't know what size it was. It just fitted.

The idea is that the chain is always wet. This firstly reduces wear between the chain and the sprockets. Secondly it means that the oil is constantly refreshed and this stops crap from sticking to the chain or from a build up of sludge and grit accelerating the wear. ALSO WD40 will firstly displace the grease from inside the sealed O-rings, and then after a longer period it will degrade the rubber of the O-rings.

Ha! I wouldn't be without one! I don't really have a problem with splash tbh. I'm not sure why you'd leave it for 30 mins. It's not like the oil dries on! Plus you can't leave it for 30 minutes after every drop through the system! In all seriousness though, the fact that i got 15,000 hard miles out of my last chain and only had to clean & adjust the chain once it's enough to convince me that it's a gadget worth having. I even had to tell the guy i sold the bike to that the chain was already 15k down as he thought it was quite new! (I'm so honest me)

The 30 mins was my confusion, sorry lol, that's with chain wax, I would still prefer to maintain it myself. My rear sprocket is filthy lol

Haha! Ok! Yeah we each have our preferred ways. I find that the Scottoiler works great for me. I'd prefer a dual sided oiler, but i think the benefit would be relatively small. But i totally understand why others would hate the mess of it all. Some folks even enjoy regular chain maintenance. I HATE it! 😆

+Horribal Thanks! I'm sure that underneath the plastic, very little has changed on the engines hardware. Hope it all goes/went to plan!

Nooooooooo! Sadly I've had one chain oiler pack up, so i accept that its a real possibility. Hoping there have been improvements! I'm not so worried about the one side thing. The other side appears to be wet, so at least some oil is getting there. Surely with these new-fangled sealed chains it's must important just to keep it wet (that's what she said) and reduce the friction between rollers and sprocket? We'll see. If it doesn't give up this year, maybe I'll get the dual jobby. If it does, I'll have a tantrum on camera! Cheers for watching!

HAHAHAHA! Brilliant! 7 years on and I still haven'T bothered my arse to make a parody song channel trailer. One day!

Centripetal. The actual force, the reaction to which is the ‚apparent‘ force that we all know and love, centrifugal force.

@@AndyManCam to my knowledge centripetal force would be the one acting inwards - in this case friction opposing oil being moved outwards as opposed to centrifugal force acting outwards in this case on oil being deposited on the spinning sprocket and oil travelling towards chain on outer border of the sprocket, but what do I know..

One cannot exist without the other. The only difference is that centripetal force is pulling directly inward to the center of the circle, whereas centrifugal force is the perceived feeling of being thrown away from the center of the circle when in actual fact the ‚subject‘ is trying to travel forwards, tangentially to the circle.

You should watch the latest video! In-your-end-o central!!