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Offline StinkyPete

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Compact Oil Funnel
« on: September 10, 2012, 08:34:47 AM »
You can buy these little gizmos at the plant shops.  They're designed to be screwed onto the top of a soft drink bottle, which you fill with water and stick in the ground at the base of a plant to water it over a period of days.   The tip has one tiny hole to allow the water to slowly bleed out.   Cut off the tip of the orange gizmo as shown in the photo, and cut the bottom out of a plastic soft drink bottle, and you have along skinny funnel.   While touring, you can stick the orange gizmo in your tool kit, and you will have the basis of a funnel if one is needed.
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Re: Compact Oil Funnel
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2012, 09:39:01 AM »
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Re: Compact Oil Funnel
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2012, 09:47:44 AM »
On my old Yamaha XS650, the thread on a soft drink bottle would screw straight into the oil filler.
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Re: Compact Oil Funnel
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2012, 09:08:18 PM »
I have to ask how this was found out, and why :)

On my old Yamaha XS650, the thread on a soft drink bottle would screw straight into the oil filler.
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Re: Compact Oil Funnel
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2012, 11:02:53 PM »
It would have been nice to report that it was discovered while investigating ways of constantly topping up the oil while on the move, to counteract the volumes of oil leaking out of the crankcase.

However, it was nothing like that at all.   Some genius in the XS650 Club of Australia had simply discovered the fact that the thread on a soft drink bottle is the same as the oil filler cap on the XS650.   This means that a cut down soft drink bottle makes a perfect funnel for doing a mess-free oil fill.   When I bought the ST I checked the thread (which unfortunately was different to a soft drink bottle)  but it eventually led me to using the orange plant waterer on a soft drink bottle as a funnel.
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Re: Compact Oil Funnel
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2012, 09:31:45 PM »
I like it ... use it on other machines also . :thumbs
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Re: Compact Oil Funnel
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2012, 06:12:16 PM »
I use a 500ml brake fluid bottle with bottom removed and four thin 'v's cut through the threaded end so as I screw it into the oil filler hole in the cam cover they tighten up and close the gaps, holding it tight and leak proof.

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