Removing RED diesel stain

maby said:
It's a fuzzy area of law. The convention is that we allow foreign vehicles (including boats) to go about their business without seeking to enforce local laws on the fuel they are carrying, but I don't think this is formalised in international law.
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Actually, it is formalised. UNCLOSS states the coastal state can apply any of it's laws to visiting boats not under innocent passage.
 
You can certainly run a dumper on it. One of my dumpers had a Petters diesel. I once ran 85 litres of heating oil from a tank to avoid it being thrown away & it ran fine. I think at the time it was described as "Thirty Second gas oil" but it was a long time ago so I may be mistaken.
 
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Daydream believer said:
You can certainly run a dumper on it. One of my dumpers had a Petters diesel. I once ran 85 litres of heating oil from a tank to avoid it being thrown away & it ran fine. I think at the time it was described as "Thirty Second gas oil" but it was a long time ago so I may be mistaken.
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28-second oil is kerosene and is what most central heating systems use. The more viscous 35-second stuff is diesel / gas oil.

"The time measured in seconds required for 60 milliliters of a petroleum product to flow through the calibrated orifice of a Saybolt Universal viscometer, at controlled temperature, is defined as that product's viscosity in Saybolt Universal Seconds (SUS)." (http://www.contractorsunlimited.co.uk/toolbox/viscosity.shtml)
 
Champagne Murphy said:
So after the recent ECJ decision to reject the HMRC derogation on leisure use of red diesel and being as how we are based on the East coast, I‘ve decided to go white. At least that way we’ll have the ability to visit the Continent without fear of fines. Of course that means cleaning the system thoroughly to avoid ‘pink’ diesel.
The intention is to change all the pipes and filters and flush the system through 3/4/5 times but what to do about staining on the tank walls/inside of the CAV filter/lift pump etc etc? Is there any way of making this easier eg acetone or meths or petrol or whatever other that spraying down the walls of the tank and then running the engine with the return going into waste?
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Urban myth about red staining. I used to rebuild injectors at one point from diesel locos running Rolls Royce Eagles on red diesel. No "stains" even there. Think about it when you change your filters, arethere stains on the metal parts?
 
Daydream believer said:
You can certainly run a dumper on it. One of my dumpers had a Petters diesel. I once ran 85 litres of heating oil from a tank to avoid it being thrown away & it ran fine. I think at the time it was described as "Thirty Second gas oil" but it was a long time ago so I may be mistaken.
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Diesel engines will run an any fuel that will go through the pump and injectors. The issue with 28 sec oil is the lubricity of it. In the days of fuel shortages the market traders I knew used to use 1 gall of paraffin (not far off 28 sec oil) mixed with 1 pint of straight 30 engine oil.
Some people I know run their old clunky diesel vans on straight veggy oil. It works in the summer but a coldwinterwill put a stop to that plus of coursehe only does it when veggy oil is on offer at less than £1 a litre
 
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