I hate oil mixing jugs with a passion
Stinky, dirty, oil-dripping plastic jugs that take time to use and leave your hands, gloves and toolbox filthy. There must be a better way of mixing oil with petrol in any pre-mix scooter
Well, thanks to SIP, there is now an easy way to accurately measure oil into your petrol without the need for any oil jug nonsense.
Now you can both carry and measure your oil in one spill-free device; SIP Squeeze.
VIDEO | Oil mixing methods compared
How does it work?
The clever thing about this 0.5 litre oil bottle is that it contains a squeeze-type valve so you can tip it over your tank without spilling a drop and use the inverted measuring scale.
- Fill your tank with ‘X’ litres of fuel
- Twist the lid to release the safety lock which prevents accidental squeezing.
- Tip the bottle over your tank
- Find the scale relating to your engine (2%, 3% and 4% printed on the bottle)
- Squeeze in ‘X’ units of oil from the relevant scale
- Lock the lid and put the bottle back in your toolbox
At no point in this process do you need to get any oil over your hands, and as you can see from the video, it’s also MUCH cleaner and more accurate than trying to pour from a measuring jug when it is windy.
SIP Squeeze has a wide neck making it very easy to re-fill with your chosen brand of 2-stroke oil without spilling.
What does it fit?
The half-litre SIP Squeeze is small enough to fit in most Vespa and Lambretta toolboxes, even those of Vespa smallframes.
What does it cost?
SIP Squeeze retails for £11, and currently UK customers can order post-free direct from SIP. Find it here; SIP Squeeze.
Any problems?
None, apart from the possibility that someone may mistake this for a cycle drinking bottle. It would be very dangerous to drink 2-stroke oil so please keep out of reach of children. The bottle is also marked in braile.
Verdict
An essential 21st century solution to a 20th century problem. This is a tried-and-trusted oil-mixing method that SLUK have used for a while and a project that we helped SIP to develop.
Would I ever go back to the mixing jug?
Given the choice, not a chance.
Sticky
This is just what I need. My pet hate is the wee jug. Always a mess, even having it stuffed with rolled up kitchen roll doesn’t help a lot on longer journeys.
Good idea, made several myself and been using one for the last 7 years!
So I would have to carry this bottle and an extra bottle of 2 stroke to decant into this bottle to pour it into my tank..and after a few weeks of bouncing around in my toolbox wouldnt the red markings rub off.. I’ve been using the same jug for years and ok its grubby but it works fine takes up a tiny amount of room and the embossed markings wont rub off..
Embossed would be better. I’m sure they’ll consider it if sales prove worthwhile
The markings on the side are a bit useless. On the old jug you simply had every litre marked off, the lines on this are confusing. 3 lines between 5 litre intervals, so one line equals 1.6 litres?
Yes totally agree with that and it has been passed on as feedback.
Just seen this great idea in principle but looking at the markings is very confusing. As others have stated the markings will rub off needs to embossed.
I have unfortunately bought one but I’m concerned that the markings may come off (like they have on the baby feeding bottle I’ve been using for the last 8 years – I’ve used a stanley knife to scratch a mark at the 200 ml level so I know how much to fill it up to for 5 litres of fuel)
the other point of concern with the markings is that they stop at 200ml at the 4% mix and dont go to the top of the bottle so I just dont get how I am supposed to know that I’ve pored 200 ml into my fuel tank unless it happens that the amount of fuel in the bottle lies between 500 and 200 ml.
The locking top seems good though.
Glad I only bought the one.
TOP TIP: you can easily an permanently ‘engrave’ the markings onto one of these bottles with a hot soldering iron. That won’t rub off and you can get 5 divisions between 10 – 15 litres etc. 🙂