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No dog in the hunt, but,

The Dawn Patrol (imitation WW1 aircraft flying group near KC) made famous the use of windshield washer pumps as smoke oil injection pumps.
http://dawnpatrol.org/smoke.htm

I'd suspect that both the little single shot manual pumps or the windshield washer pumps would be rather slow transfer devices compared to just pouring in a pint of oil for 16 gallons (or a half-pint for 8, etc).

Charlie
(glad that one of Richard's metering adapters came with the project I bought)

On 6/2/2015 2:41 PM, Ernest Christley wrote:

-Doesn't have an integrated AA battery compartment

-No cheaper (hobby shops have them for about $10)

-Not designed specifically with fuels in mind (though, they may very well manage it)

-Setting it up to pull oil directly from the bottle it was sold in saves the mess of an additional transfer.

Having to string a cord out for power would be the only real drag, IMO.

On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 3:20 PM, Tom Mann <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

As far as pumps go for adding 2-stroke oil to the fuel inlet ....... couldn’t you just use a windshield washer pump?

Shoot, you could probably get away with using the reservoir as well.