| Title: | Powerboats |
| Notice: | Introductions 2 /Classifieds 3 / '97 Ski Season 1267 |
| Moderator: | KWLITY::SUTER |
| Created: | Thu May 12 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1275 |
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This past season i spent an evening at Standish Boatyard, broke
down.
Whilst there, i had some time to roam around the ships store.
Not bad, but one thing caught my attention. A water separator
system. Not like the usual, where there is a filter and bowl.
This was much different. It came with its own pump, filtration
system, and a dump tube.
It continues to circulate fuel thru it while your underway,
removes the water, and dumps it in your bilge. It does not
filter the fuel that yu are currently using ffrom what
i could see. From what i could gather, the water that was
dumped contained no fuel.
Noteworthy points:
This model for diesel only. (didn't ask about gas)
Price was $359.
I'm not a diesel expert, but water can raise a lot of hell
with them, maybe it s worth the price..
anybody got anymore info on these??
JIm
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| 929.1 | Interesting, though I probably don't NEED one... | ULTRA::BURGESS | Mad Man across the water | Fri Nov 15 1991 08:56 | 27 |
re <<< Note 929.0 by CSLALL::BORZUMATO >>>
> -< new water separator >-
> Price was $359.
Sounds reasonable...
> I'm not a diesel expert, but water can raise a lot of hell
> with them, maybe it s worth the price..
Me neither, all I know is that I like the one that's in my
tow-boat's tow vehicle, they're GREAT .if. you keep the fuel water free
.else. all hell can break loose.
Pure Speculation, FWIW follows:
I can see why they wouldn't do a gas version of a
dump_the_water_in_the_bilge model, gas and water aren't as easy to
separate as diesel fuel and water ...and we all know why we don't
want even the tiniest traces of gas fumes in our bilges, right ? (-:
There's also the fuel fungus problem with diesel oil, the
fungus NEEDS water, without water it dies. That may be why the set-up
is run on the tank and not the fuel line, that's where it matters the
most.
Reg
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| 929.2 | fuel fungus? | GEMVAX::JOHNHC | Fri Nov 15 1991 09:44 | 9 | |
re: .1
"fuel fungus"?????
Is there more information on that somewhere in this conference?
I've never heard of fuel fungus before....
John H-C
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| 929.3 | Does it turn green, I wonder? | SALEM::LAYTON | Fri Nov 15 1991 12:06 | 1 | |
Algae, I beleive. | |||||
| 929.4 | A Black or black and dark green slimy growth. | ZENDIA::BURGESS | Abject oriented poverty. | Fri Nov 15 1991 13:10 | 14 |
Yes, its some kind of filamentagenous (sp ?) algea. It gets into
fuel oil and diesel storage tanks, especially those that sit and sit
and sit without getting much use, also sail boats that might go a full
season and burn less than a tank full of fuel. I think it needs
oxygen, water and oil to thrive, but somewhere I read that it doesn't
do very well if the tank gets disturbed a lot. When I first got the
Suburban I worried a lot about it, found cans of fuel additive that
claimed to have anti-fungal stuff in, etc., but I also talked to a lot
of truckers at the pumps and formed the belief that it isn't a problem
in a vehicle that moves a lot.
Reg
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