How to drop oil from moubius bottle

[rogart63]

I can't seam to get the oil out of the bottle? The neck of the bottle is to small. This is the 9010 oil. I have been thinking of some kind of capillary tube. But glass seams so fragile? 

[JohnR725]

Conveniently I can't find the box my Elgin oil came in to show a picture of what they had. So they had if I remember two separate lids the normal lid and another one that had a glass rod with a small ball on the end. So when you inserted into the bottle which was bigger than the moubius bottle you would get a small amount oil out. Using glass like this is nice as it's easy to clean and shouldn't contaminate the oil. Despite the advertisements from moubius at one time promoting their oil lasted forever now the recommendation is tossing the bottles every couple of years I suspect more because contamination in the bottle than actual breaking down. Then I've seen companies like Rolex put their lubricants in a syringe to avoid this problem.

I have asked other watchmakers they use the same method that I use. A very clean pair of tweezers usually like number five as they're small enough. Insert into the bottle when they're closed they will pick up a small droplet of oil. When you open them up slowly the droplet will fall off or run down the ends into the oil cups. They just make sure you clean your tweezers carefully afterwards.

[anilv]

Hold the bottle over your oil-pot...tap the bottom of the moebius bottle with the back of a tweezer, a drop will...well...drop I suppose.

Anil

[jdm]

55 minutes ago, anilv said:

Hold the bottle over your oil-pot...tap the bottom of the moebius bottle with the back of a tweezer, a drop will...well...drop I suppose.

Not with 9010... it will be an instantaneous spill 

[SSTEEL]

I used a syringe to extract small amount of oils from those tiny bottles, and add to my oil pots.

[szbalogh]

With a medium sized screwdriver you can take outa drop which is enough for 5 watches  

Edited August 29, 2016 by szbalogh

[SSTEEL]

2 hours ago, SSTEEL said:

I used a syringe to extract small amount of oils from those tiny bottles, and add to my oil pots.

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[JohnR725]

7 hours ago, szbalogh said:

With a medium sized screwdriver you can take outa drop which is enough for 5 watches  

I find screwdrivers work great for the heavier lubricants like grease

[rogart63]

12 hours ago, anilv said:

Hold the bottle over your oil-pot...tap the bottom of the moebius bottle with the back of a tweezer, a drop will...well...drop I suppose.

Anil

That doesn't work on this bottle. The other i hade was a little bigger neck on .That worked great.  Without the tapping. 

[rogart63]

A pipette i think they call the glass syringe with the bubble? 

A pasteur pipettes is a small micro pipette . 

Thanks al i will look into it . Anyone need a couple of hunded? 

Edited August 29, 2016 by rogart63

[Geo]

I use a screwdriver for removing all oils from bottles.  For the finer oils it takes two or three dips to transfer the correct amount to the pot.  Using this method I have little or no wastage at all.

[Brian3]

Best way is what JohnR725 said, use clean tweezers, closed as you enter bottle, capillary action will run the oil up the tweezer, touch down on oil pot and slowly open tweezers, oil runs down in a nice controllable manner.

[RCDesign]

Take a plastic straw and cut out a strip that is abt half the size of the hole in the bottle and abt 40-50mm long - dip in the oil and then transfer the oil on the curved tip to your oil pot!

If you can find straws with a small enough diameter to fit inside the bottle - just cut to length, dip 1-5mm in the oil - cover the top of your "straw pipe" with your finger - move to oil pot and then remove your finger - viola.

[bobm12]

16 hours ago, RCDesign said:

straws with a small enough diameter

Ingenious and simple! I like it!