I slurped some fuel out of the lowest corner of my fuel tank this past weekend. Just to see what was there and get rid of anything that might be removable. (*)
I ended up with about 3 quarts of fuel and ... now I'm not sure what to do with it. I suppose I could manually strain it (or set up a way to "polish" it through a pump-fed filter) but, for less than a gallon it hardly seems worth it.
My marina has a waste-oil disposal tank... which is great, but the sign on the wall says "no gas", and that there is a big cost to processing oil that's been contaminated with gas. What I don't know is whether or not diesel is considered "gas" for their purposes, and didn't want to assume.
Anyone have a tip about where I can take this? I know fire-stations used to accept unwanted gas in gas-cans... will they take a water jug half full of diesel?
Bruce
(*) What came out was... fuel. No sign of water (yay!). I did get a small amount (a couple tablespoons full) of black sediment, which sank pretty quickly to the bottom of the container. Not granular, didn't appear to be metallic, my *guess* is that it was the start of a bio-bloom of some kind that was killed by the Bio-Bor I add every season, and the stuff precipitated out of the fuel and sank to the bottom of the tank. But that's a completely uninformed guess. There's no sign of similar sediment in the bottom of my Racor filter bowl, so... whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be circulating through the system.
I ended up with about 3 quarts of fuel and ... now I'm not sure what to do with it. I suppose I could manually strain it (or set up a way to "polish" it through a pump-fed filter) but, for less than a gallon it hardly seems worth it.
My marina has a waste-oil disposal tank... which is great, but the sign on the wall says "no gas", and that there is a big cost to processing oil that's been contaminated with gas. What I don't know is whether or not diesel is considered "gas" for their purposes, and didn't want to assume.
Anyone have a tip about where I can take this? I know fire-stations used to accept unwanted gas in gas-cans... will they take a water jug half full of diesel?
Bruce
(*) What came out was... fuel. No sign of water (yay!). I did get a small amount (a couple tablespoons full) of black sediment, which sank pretty quickly to the bottom of the container. Not granular, didn't appear to be metallic, my *guess* is that it was the start of a bio-bloom of some kind that was killed by the Bio-Bor I add every season, and the stuff precipitated out of the fuel and sank to the bottom of the tank. But that's a completely uninformed guess. There's no sign of similar sediment in the bottom of my Racor filter bowl, so... whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be circulating through the system.
