So Soltron is shown not to work!

[AdeOlly]

I'm fairly confident it worked well in my KAD32 virtually eliminating all smoke, and will use it when I can get it. What I've never seen satisfactorily answered is how different Starbrite's Startron is as they make ner identical claims to that of Soltron. Was this tested in PBO? Especially interested as this is what's in the tanks of my new to me boat as I couldn't get hold of any Soltron last autumn.

 

[Gludy]

No - The Starbrite enzyme was not tested.

I am told it is basically a more dilute version of the same the same thing.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

All I can say is that it's probably worked for me. I've had boats in the Med now for 4 seasons based in 3 different places and filled up in many different locations. The boats have been left for months on end with part filled tanks in a hot climate. You would think that I would be an ideal candidate for the fuel bug but I have not had one instance (touching wood very hard here /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) of contamination and the the fuel filter bowls have always been very clean. I have put this down to dosing with Soltron regularly. I may be wrong and I may just have been dead lucky but I will continue to use the stuff
However what I would say is that I have found the marketing tactics of Soltron sellers in terms of their rubbishing of other products and general misinformation to be unfortunate to say the least

 

[Gludy]

It has always mworked for myself as well but i do want to get to the bottom of this and hope PBO can answer my question.

 

[Nick_H]

I read all the blurb on a Fuel Set bottle once, and from what I can remember it works by removing the water so the little critters die of thirst, but I also seem to remember it says it turns sludge into smaller particles that can pass through the filter and be burnt off without effecting the engines. It was a long time ago I read it, and actually i'm only posting to see if I get a cake under my avatar.

 

[Nick_H]

Pah!

 

[Alistairr]

Happy Birthday Nick. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Cheers

Al.

 

[Gludy]

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i'm only posting to see if I get a cake under my avatar.


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Did you ever post for any other reason? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Nick_H]

Yes, I used to think I could pick up women on here. I read lots of posts about what are the best cleaning products and the best type of cooker to have on board and I thought I was in ...

 

[Nautorius]

Worked on my KAD32. When I got it she was stuttering and slow. Two good doses and she was running fine!

A miracle worker with a KAD 32 if you ask me,

Cheers

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[DAKA]

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said double dose with Soltron

Our recent service showed we had picked up some water in the fuel, fortunately caught by the watertrap, yet there was no sign of the bug

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If you had soltron in you should not have found water in your traps, I think it works but your find causes serious doubt.

 

[jaws]

I seem to remember MBM saying it was good stuff a few years ago. So what's changed? Will have to check out PBO

 

[Robin]

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If you had soltron in you should not have found water in your traps, I think it works but your find causes serious doubt.


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Why? Soltron never claimed to remove water, only to eat the crud that forms on the interface between any water and diesel. There is another product that claims to hold the water in suspension and allow it to pass through filters to be burnt off, but that isn't Soltron and I'm not sure I like the idea of water being carried through the injection pump and injectors either!

 

[DavidJ]

My first year without Soltron I got a brown gloopy gunge build up in my filters. Every year since (with Soltron) it's as clean as a bell. Last week I bought another 500ml of it.

 

[Gludy]

Well the tests were conducted in the labs owned by the winner of the tests!!!!!

They state they were blind but the other products were biocides and had to be treated differently - hence they could not be blind tests at all.

I am frankly disgusted with PBO for doing this.

Its a total misleading waste of time an lacks integrity.

 

[oldgit]

Somebody must have been putting it secretly into my tank for years or else the bug cannot survive anywhere the fetid waters of the Medway?

 

[Gludy]

Well the real point her is that there is now ay the lab would not know its own product plus becayse Soltron had to be tested differently there is no way it would not be able to know Soltron.

A petro lab guy on the PBO thread agrees with that.

I think that the mag should withdraw the article - for me its integrity is at stake.

 

[Marsupial]

Agree absolutely, my own experience with additives tells me that the PBO findings are suspect simply because their conclusions are inconsistent with pragmatic “field” experience and evidence. This raises the important question of whether PBO is just another channel for manufacturers to publish pseudo science and if so then clearly PBO cannot be trusted to be objective and impartial.

Specifically, this is not just a case of some additives, now claimed to be ineffective, being used by engineers merely because they believe in them or they are in vogue, it’s because the products have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that they work and do perform as specified in the field.

The best we say is that the methodology seems to have been designed to favour certain technologies, so can you test them all again please this time by a truly independent lab.

 

[PhilF]

my ebersbacher never worked properly until I started to use Fuel Set, so there, cant speak for the engines, never start them, off to spain tomorrow, hurrah

 

[Gludy]

Fuel Set was also slated be the report.