Best ever bilge pump?!

[Graham_Wright]

Fed up with dropping tools, screws and nuts etc. into the oily bilge water under the engine and consequently having diesel stinking fingers after fishing for them, I now have the ultimate solution. Diesel floats on water so a standard bilge pump will never remove it as it qualifies as "dregs".

Wickes sell a £39 wet and dry vac which performed admirably. It has all the widgets and a really powerful suck. Even found a small spanner in the tank when I emptied it!

 

[lw395]

Let us know how long it takes the vacuum to stop smelling of diesel!

W&D vacs are great for getting the last bit of water out of a wooden boat when looking for leaks though.

Oily bilge water I reckon a pela oil extractor is the biz, take the mess home and let it settle out.

 

[Graham_Wright]

Let us know how long it takes the vacuum to stop smelling of diesel!

I'm trying to learn to love it!

 

[Heckler]

Let us know how long it takes the vacuum to stop smelling of diesel!

W&D vacs are great for getting the last bit of water out of a wooden boat when looking for leaks though.

Oily bilge water I reckon a pela oil extractor is the biz, take the mess home and let it settle out.

Pela + 1
Stu

 

[lefkasman]

oil extractors...

and for those of you who like me diden't know what the hell they were talking about ....http://www.pelaproducts.com/

looks the business, nice bit of kit !

 

[andy01842]

Best ever bilge pump?!
I thought that was a drowning man with a bucket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Thistle]

Why not go for prevention rather than cure?

 

[Graham_Wright]

Why not go for prevention rather than cure?

Here speaketh he who knowest not the reason!

Commissioning the engine- raw water disconnection - bleeding injectors.

But it is also great for saw dust and small solids.

One year guarantee and a steal at that price. Good reviews too.

 

[david_bagshaw]

wet and dry vac which performed admirably. !

totally agree, especially useful for emptying the plumbing on lay up, engine and domestic, cleaning empty fuel tanks, to remove sludge.

2nd most useful tool..... generator to power it.

 

[Easticks28]

Let us know how long it takes the vacuum to stop smelling of diesel!


Oily bilge water I reckon a pela oil extractor is the biz, take the mess home and let it settle out.

+1

 

[Thistle]

Here speaketh he who knowest not the reason!

Commissioning the engine- raw water disconnection - bleeding injectors.

But it is also great for saw dust and small solids.

One year guarantee and a steal at that price. Good reviews too.

Still better, I think, to catch the water and fuel before it gets to the bilge. Agreed, though, that wet & dry vacs are useful machines.

 

[pieter2]

I use cheap dipers for drying up the bilge.

 

[Graham_Wright]

Oily bilge water I reckon a pela oil extractor is the biz, take the mess home and let it settle out.

………and it's only 99p more expensive!

 

[lw395]

………and it's only 99p more expensive!

Yes they are expensive for what they are.
But I wouldn't be without one now.
Also true about wet vacs,
But I wish it was possible to buy a wet/dry vac with a decent filtering system at sensible cost.

 

[lw395]

I use cheap dipers for drying up the bilge.

This has been the cause of a least one sinking, they are perfect for blocking bilge pumps if you get holed. Good idea as a clean-up measure though.