Engine drip tray or Bilge water filter or Both or Neither??

[wipe_out]

What do you do to manage oily bilge water??

 

[VicS]

What do you do to manage oily bilge water??

I don't have oily bilge water but if i did I would consider an oil absorbing pillow. I have used them to contain a small oil leak at work and they are very good. They absorb the oil but not the water. I had one stuffed up the outlet of a site drain that some light oil was getting into. I had it there for years to stop oil getting into one of the ditches around the site.

 

[wipe_out]

Hadn't thought about those pillows as another option..

 

[pvb]

I have an oil-absorbing mat, rolled up in netting, in the bilge. It does a very effective job of soaking up stray oil.

 

[philip_stevens]

Although I voted for a Bilge Water Filter, what I actually have is an oil absorbing sock below the engine, with an oil absorbing mat as well - although never had any oil on the mat or sock.

 

[SAMYL]

Sheets of tissue paper, EBR, laid gently on the water surface soak up most oil leaks if it is not too severe.
Alternatively an oven roasting dish under the engine to catch the drips. You can then use the dish at Xmas to cook the turkey - the dish imparting a wonderful flavour to the bird.

 

[lw395]

Plastic tray sold for cat litter fits under 3gM very nicely.
Best not to have either oil or water in the bilge, neither should be there in a plastic boat with a modern engine.
I also like segregating the bilge so the few drips that come from the stern gland can be sponged before they meet the two drips of oil that escape from the engine, both should be kept away from the splilt coffee under the saloon cabin sole. Deal with it at source.
The cat litter tray helps when you fumble an oil filter change, that 's for sure.
Wooden boat is a different game, I would think a bilge pump filter was a good idea, but the wooden boats I play with don't have inboards.

 

[Stork_III]

Don't get any oil in the bilge. The standard engine bed for VP engines is a sealed sump, to contain any spillage.

 

[David2452]

Don't get any oil in the bilge. The standard engine bed for VP engines is a sealed sump, to contain any spillage.

+ 1 , hdrocarbon filters though they work do clog up very quickly if any real quantity of oil is passed, they are fitted to a number of inland based boats to comply with BSS where cost issues or practicality of fitting an oil catch pan is not done, OK to stop drips but that is all and you will loose your pump if you get any real leak, not a good thing.

 

[Bosun Higgs]

about to try some of my late father in laws unused (!!!) nappies

 

[Spyro]

I have a couple of oil absorbing mats. I don't have any leaks they are only there to catch oil when I've done an oil change. I have a small tray and a sponge under the stern gland which I wring out every so often if there has been any drips from the gland, I don't have any water in the bilge.

 

[VicS]

about to try some of my late father in laws unused (!!!) nappies

They will absorb water... which then means they do not absorb oil like the proper oil absorbing blankets

 

[adrianbt]

Found this company really helpful and they sell small quantities if you ask them. I recall buying just a handfull of pads and a couple of socks. These are the real oil-only absorbents as used in spillage kits.

http://www.serpro.eu/shop1/

hope this helps
Ade