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21 June 2011, 12:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: Marlow
Make: Bombard 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: 25hp Yamaha 2 stroke
Join Date: Aug 2010
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What 2 stroke oil do you use?
Seems to be a huge difference in price:
2l of Yamalube = £15
2l of Valvoline marine = £4
What do you guys use in your 2 strokes? Is there one that is considered to be the best?
Thanks
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21 June 2011, 13:00
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Country: UK - England
Town: Sussex
Boat name: Bombard
Make: Aerotec 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: Mercury Mariner 15hp
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That seems cheap - best price I could find online for a decent name brand was around £11 delivered for 1 litre.
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21 June 2011, 14:49
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Girvan & Tayvallich
Boat name: Breawatch
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: Mercury 150 F/stroke
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Hi I use Quicksilver around £7.90 per ltr!! Is your Valvoline TCW3 ?
Cheers
J
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21 June 2011, 15:36
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Country: Ireland
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Originally Posted by jambo
Is your Valvoline TCW3 ?
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It would appear so:
"Valvoline® 2-Cycle Outboard Marine Oil - NMMA(BIA) TC-W3 Certified
Fortified for maximum performance in outboard engines
Minimizes wear, combustion chamber deposits, ring sticking, piston burning, port blocking and spark plug fouling
Enhances engine performance
Prolongs engine life
Meets and exceeds warranty requirements of all leading engine manufacturer's (ie: Evinrude, Johnson, Mercury, Yamaha, Suzuki and others) where an NMMA/(BIA) certified TC-W3 or preceding specification is recommended"
Cheepity cheep, innit?
I for one (being a bit tight) would be tempted, were it not for the fact that I have a 1L can of Quicksilver on the shelf that I think I'm going to have trouble using this season..... 
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21 June 2011, 16:19
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RIBnet admin team
Country: UK - England
Town: Cambridgeshire
Boat name: Nimrod II
Make: Aerotec 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: Yam 15 Tohatsu 9.8
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Ha... the cost of 2-stroke oil is so low in the scheme of things I just buy a decent brand off the shelf at the local marina.
With my Mariner on a 75:1 mix I can get a whole season out of 1 or 2 litres of oil.
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21 June 2011, 18:43
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Country: UK - England
Town: Birmingham
Make: Avon SR4
Length: 4m +
Engine: Yam 55
Join Date: Jun 2009
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valvoline oil
I'll gladly do a trial test with some of this if you can show me a link 
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21 June 2011, 18:56
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Country: UK - England
Town: Marlow
Make: Bombard 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: 25hp Yamaha 2 stroke
Join Date: Aug 2010
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Originally Posted by shoestring
I'll gladly do a trial test with some of this if you can show me a link |
Got it from this Google search...
marine 2 stroke oil - Google Search
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21 June 2011, 19:10
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Country: UK - England
Town: Sussex
Boat name: Bombard
Make: Aerotec 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: Mercury Mariner 15hp
Join Date: Jul 2010
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21 June 2011, 21:40
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Country: UK - England
Town: The wilds of Wiltshire
Boat name: Dominator
Make: SR5.4
Length: 7m +
Engine: Yam 85
MMSI: 235055163
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 13,069
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Max...
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Good luck with that website-damned if I can get it to work...
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21 June 2011, 21:42
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salisbury
Boat name: Blue C
Make: XS 600
Length: 6m +
Engine: 125hp Opti
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nos4r2
Good luck with that website-damned if I can get it to work...
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Works for me Matt !! 
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21 June 2011, 21:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: The wilds of Wiltshire
Boat name: Dominator
Make: SR5.4
Length: 7m +
Engine: Yam 85
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ashbypower
Works for me Matt !! |
It's coming up, but the shop parts aren't doing anything. Ah well...
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21 June 2011, 21:49
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Country: UK - England
Town: The wilds of Wiltshire
Boat name: Dominator
Make: SR5.4
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Engine: Yam 85
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Ok, so now it is, but I can't get it to give me shipping options.
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21 June 2011, 21:52
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Country: Ireland
Length: 4m +
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Oh it works OK NOS, just in a Geological Timeframe...
Then it adds shipping and then it adds VAT.
I'm not going to be friends with it 
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21 June 2011, 22:50
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Country: UK - England
Town: Leicestershire
Make: Ribcraft 4.8
Length: 4m +
Engine: Tohatsu 70 HP 2 st
Join Date: May 2009
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I use Quicksilver Premium Plus
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21 June 2011, 22:57
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XD100 from Mike Vincent at South Coast Marine in Christchurch. Good price & great service
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21 June 2011, 23:01
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RIBnet admin team
Country: UK - England
Town: The wilds of Wiltshire
Boat name: Dominator
Make: SR5.4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by willk
Oh it works OK NOS, just in a Geological Timeframe...
Then it adds shipping and then it adds VAT.
I'm not going to be friends with it |
Finally got it to work.
After all that, it's still a lot cheaper for me to buy it by the 25 litre drum.
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22 June 2011, 07:02
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Country: UK - England
Town: New Milton
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Quote:
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XD100 from Mike Vincent at South Coast Marine in Christchurch. Good price & great service
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22 June 2011, 07:28
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Country: Other
Town: Rosas
Boat name: Conqueror
Make: Valiant
Length: 7m +
Engine: Outboard 150hp Merc
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I'm with NOs on this one. 25Ltr drum from the bay of fleas working out at 3 squid a litre.
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22 June 2011, 07:32
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Country: UK - England
Town: Sussex
Boat name: Bombard
Make: Aerotec 380
Length: 3m +
Engine: Mercury Mariner 15hp
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Can I ask a kind of related oil question - is there really a risk of 'gelling' and blockages (as engine manual warns) if different oil brands are mixed in the same tank?
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22 June 2011, 09:11
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Country: UK - Scotland
Boat name: Wildheart
Make: Humber/Delta Seasafe
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Engine: Merc 60 Clamshell
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Agreed that lot is cheap, and so I throw this in as an observation.
I got the best part of a 1L tub of "nobrand" TCW3 when I got the rib. It worked OK, but when I swapped to Yamlube I felt the engine did run & start percepively better.
I always felt Yamlube was less "gloopy" and seemed to keep the engine running sweeter & cleaner than even other branded "gloopy TCW3 oils like Quicksilver)
It may of course be the subliminal advertising of a known brand playing with my brain, but I have heard three other people who don't run Yam engines (Suz, Tohatsu & Johnson) say that they reckon Yamlube makes a perceptible difference.
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