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Also doubles as a box to sit on, or stand on!
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I often wonder if evaporation of the electrolyte from the battery being in a warm place, and loss of H2O from gassing get confused. If canalretentive's had been kept in a warm place for years and the electrolyte acid itself had evaporated and dispersed (rather than just water from gassing), then topping it up with water to the degree described could have seriously diluted what remained in the battery quite possibly stopping the battery from working at all. How capable of evaporating IS sulfuric acid?
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Well to answer your question, I would decant fresh clean fuel into my day tank and take the boat back to my home mooring, where I can get the main tank cleaned of bug. But we were discussing what to do about water in the main tank, not diesel bug. Diesel bug is a whole nother problem. 12v wetvacs are BRILLIANT. Every boater needs one. https://www.screwfix.com/p/milwaukee-m18-vc2-0-18v-li-ion-cordless-wet-dry-vacuum-bare/867FJ?kpid=867FJ&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1244066&ds_kid=92700031521312314&msclkid=16ea6eb9181e165cbf6d0caf1efe0128&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MPX_UK_SHP_MAN_S_ALL_Tools&utm_term=4583451660521096&utm_content=S - Power Tools&ds_rl=1245250&gclid=16ea6eb9181e165cbf6d0caf1efe0128&gclsrc=3p.ds
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Or more specifically, the bottom of the fuel tank often IS the baseplate of the boat, so getting the receiving receptacle for syphoning to a lower level than the baseplate is no mean feat.
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It appears you either don't know how syphoning works or you don't know what a day tank is! Or both.
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Another puzzle.
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My dear old departed Dad used to say "Look, I am always right, even when I am wrong..."
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Risky to say, but I think i agree!
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I'm gonna have to try that, sounds BRILLIANT!
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Do tell us how! My preferred method would be to put a 12v wet vac on the outboard end of said 6ft length of hose.
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Oh, the irony..!
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My open grate in The Hovel will stay in for at least 2 hours on wood alone....
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The supposed scarcity of 'taps and toilets' in London suggests to be CRT are doing it deliberately in order to put a brake on the meteoric rise in boat density. Or to put it another way, every time the boat population doubles in London, CRT don't put in any more taps and toilets. Nor do I condemn them for this.
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When I take a mooring in a marina it is not uncommon for me to accidentally put 60ft instead of 68ft....
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Have to say, my old Squirrel would stay in for up to 48 hours with no intervention whatsoever using smokeless stuff like Oxbow Red. My not-so-new Boatman stove will stay in for about 12 hours max. Very disappointing.
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I pay DVLC £250 a year but they don't supply water taps, waste disposal etc.... Both sums are simply for permission to use the track, AIUI.
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How do you know? Do you actually check your tank for water? Disclosure: I know I should but I never do.
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I've always been vaguely surprised that CRT feel obliged provide any services at all. Is there a legal obligation for them to provide water points, waste disposal, Elsan and pump outs? Or do they do it to be nice to boaters?
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Very much agree, I think those leak rainwater into the tank which obviously stays in the tank for ever, or until hoovered out.
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My concern is that turning up with a big shiny pump with hoses and filters amounts to little more than 'theatre', and is all for show. The real problems are water, rust, debris and dirty diesel sloshing around in the very base of the tank, and diesel bug. I doubt either of these can be fully fixed by circulating the diesel through a pump and filter, no matter how fast the fuel is pumped. But as I said earlier, I've not even seen it done let alone done it myself.
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Or take the access panel off. I agree with you about it being all nonsense though. I can't imagine how "fuel polishing" (where someone turns up and pumps the fuel in the tank round and round a filter for a couple of hours) can result in a clean tank. It just gives to clean fuel in a tank still with all the crud swimming about on the bottom. These people are happy for boaters to conflate the term 'fuel polishing' with tank cleaning, i.e. getting all the water and loose crud out of the bottom of the tank. Maybe they clean the tank as well as polish the fuel but from the OP's account, I suspect not. It's my uninformed opinion that what needs to be done is decant the suspect fuel in the tank to a clean drum or whatever and polish it from there if you must. Otherwise just let it stand for a couple of hours to let any contaminates to settle to the bottom, then recover the top 90% of it. Meanwhile with an empty tank, set about physically vacuuming up all the loose debris and water from the bottom of it using whatever access you have or can make. There's no way I'd want to do all the above for anything like the tankbusters initial quote. Probably someone will point out all the errors in the above but in my defence I fix boilers for a living, not on boats. Its probably a good thing I'm not a tank cleaner.
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I bet they are imagining you have a 200ah bank of them, not a nuclear power station's worth!
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Reach after reach with nowhere to moor. Monumentally dull. That is my memory of it!
