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Hey,

 

So most of the time Shimano includes the little bottle of mystery oil with the blue cap, but occasionally you will get the green cap oil or "bantam oil". I want to dump all of my little bottles into 1 precision bottle I have. Are these oils basically the same? Can they be mixed without any adverse effects? I'm curious thanks 

If the green is labeled BFS, I wouldn't mix that since I'm guessing it's a thinner oil. Blue caps, dump them all together. 

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51 minutes ago, garroyo130 said:

If the green is labeled BFS, I wouldn't mix that since I'm guessing it's a thinner oil. Blue caps, dump them all together. 

Oh i was wrong, the blue cap bottles say bantam oil and the green cap bottle is unmarked...it has shimano name vertically molded into the bottle which is pretty cool. I do have a scorpion bfs reel from Japan that might be the bfs oil

If they are different viscosities all you could lose is the benefit of the lighter oil if you need it. It’s not going to react or hurt anything. 

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8 hours ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

If they are different viscosities all you could lose is the benefit of the lighter oil if you need it. It’s not going to react or hurt anything. 

Ok sounds good thanks

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