Diesel bug?

[wandering snail]

Found in the 1st diesel filter at service today.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

5 minutes ago, wandering snail said:

Found in the 1st diesel filter at service today.

Were you doing you regular service and have spotted this in time?

or did you suspect it?

 

 

[Tony Brooks]

That might not be bug. It is so light in colour it may be the waxy stuff RCR reported on a while ago. Possibly a reaction between the fuel and certain additives.

[Cheshire cat]

My first thought was "Why isn't it pink?"

[wandering snail]

Routine service that happened to be 11 days after a diesel fill. No additives before that Tony but has now got Exocet treatment added, just in case. It's a pale pinky/brown now it's dry.

[ditchcrawler]

[wandering snail]

3 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

it's too late, we panicked and bought treatment!!

[blackrose]

What treatment are you using? 

[wandering snail]

1 hour ago, blackrose said:

What treatment are you using? 

Exocet

[Bargebuilder]

7 minutes ago, wandering snail said:

Exocet

Very effective: they used one on the HMS Sheffield and that has never had diesel bug since.

[Clanky]

I find your comment in very poor taste.

[Bargebuilder]

6 minutes ago, Clanky said:

I find your comment in very poor taste.

Use Marine 16 instead then. 😁

[john.k]

Looks like the fatty residue that often occurrs in bio diesel made out of meat processing waste

[blackrose]

10 hours ago, wandering snail said:

Exocet

 

I don't know it, but googling came up with what looked like a preventative product rather than a treatment for diesel bug in the system. 

 

 

[Lady M]

I have come across Exocet as a treatment which diesel vendors put in their main tank to extend the life of the fuel.  However, I don't know if they also make a bug infection treatment.

[blackrose]

Not sure if adding a link to another forum breaches this forum's rules, but there's a similar thread here from YBW that might be useful, although I'm not entirely convinced your example is diesel bug. 

 

https://forums.ybw.com/index.php?threads/is-this-the-diesel-bug-piccy.199920/

[Alan de Enfield]

7 minutes ago, blackrose said:

 

I don't know it, but googling came up with what looked like a preventative product rather than a treatment for diesel bug in the system. 

 

 

 

 

 

I too find the post from bargebuilder in very poor tatse.

 

HMS Sheffied was sunk by an exocet missile in the Falklands.

Of the 281 crew members, 20 (mainly on duty in the galley area and computer room) died in the attack with another 26 injured, mostly from burns, smoke inhalation or shock. Only one body was recovered. The survivors were taken to Ascension Island on the tanker British Esk. The wreck is a war grave and designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.

[blackrose]

19 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

I too find the post from bargebuilder in very poor tatse.

 

 

So perhaps the diesel additive product name is also in bad taste? 

[wandering snail]

3 hours ago, blackrose said:

 

I don't know it, but googling came up with what looked like a preventative product rather than a treatment for diesel bug in the system. 

 

 

There's both, a treatment and a protector. We've put the bug kill one in, just in case, and will use the protector next time we put diesel in.