What colour scottoil ?
 

I bought a scottoiler off ebay unused with a full bottle of oil, but it is red oil, not the blue I used on my previous bike. There is nothing on the bottle to say what grade it is, but my blue oil bottle says for use between 0 & 20 C. Is this red oil the summer use oil ? It may be old stock.

Taken from www.scottoiler.com

Which oil should I use - blue Scottoil or red High Temperature Oil?

For riding in the UK use blue Scottoil. Please note that our Original Scottoil was previously red in colour but to avoid confusion with our High Temperature Scottoil we have changed it to blue.

The red High Temperature oil is ideal for touring abroad, but was developed specifically for Singapore, Australia and Parts of America that are on average in excess of 30 degrees. It is in a red labeled bottle and is red in colour. Because of the increased viscosity this oil is also better suited for use with older Scottoiler kits or with faster flowing oilers.

Please Note that the 0 to 20 c and 20 to 40c ranges are approximate. These oils will work at 10 degrees higher and lower than the stated temps (workable blue range –10 to 30 c, workable red range 10 to 50c.) Visit the New High Temperature Oil article on our news page for full details. [Back]

My scottoil is a sort of murky brown. It's used engine oil :)

:winner: Got about 20L of the stuff waiting to go to the dump and it works just fine 8)

I use blue all year round. 1L lasts me about a year

Yep, even with it turned up to "cover the back wheel" I seem to create used engine oil about 20 times faster than I use it up. I'm thinking of doing what a mate did and just buying an old oil drum and keeping all my surplus to scottoiling engine oil in that and then taking it to the dump once it's near full.

Thanks for help boys. I will use the red assuming it is original scottoil, not high temperature, as it is old stock I think.

I would like to use engine oil but I used to use it on my pushbike chain thinned with white spirit and wondered why it turned gungy, then I read an article in a pushbike mag pointing out that engine oil deliberately contains emulsifiers which mix with water to make a gunky emulsion when used on bike chains. I used 3-in-1 instead and no gunk ! Does this happen with engine oil in scottoilers?

I use Automatic Transmission fluid (dextron III) in summer, in winter I max about 25% parafin with the atf

atf is high in detergents it suspends dirt well and keep it off the o rings and other points of abrasion