soltron required - must be CHEAP

[tcm]

hm, well the soltron stuff seems to have reached the dizzy heights of not yet ever being proven to be rubbish. Only trouble is

1) you can't actually see it working, as after all you might get some fab diesel in a nice clean tank so who needs the stuff? This is surely one of the dullest marine purchases i have made

2) it cost's a flippin fortune.

so, heyho How much do i need for a tank with 3500 litres of diesel in it? Aren't these the same people who suggested you have to keep the tank nice and full - but then y'need much more soltron 6 months later! Damn damn damn...

 

[Nauti Fox]

Ah but you can grow cress in the hundreds of empty soltron containers you will have.Not sure that it will be edible but should'nt have any bugs on it.

 

[Wiggo]

Well, I reckon I have a cunning plan: you seem like an adventurous sort - the kind of bloke not afraid to experiment, to defy accepted wisdom, to break new ground, to piss away thousands on loony schemes... (how is the copper-loaded antifoul and that perpetual motion machine Moose No1 sold you doing, BTW?)

A chemist friend tells me that enzymes are enzymes are enzymes. You just need a lot of them, and cheap. He assures me that you can make a patent Soltron-substitute, by mixing three parts paraffin with one part of Persil Bio Liquigel washing powder. I'm not supposed to tell you, but he suspects that Sainsbury's own brand may work just as well.

He reckons you'll need about a gallon of the stuff, so you could mix it in a bucket easily enough.

Personally, I'd suggest you try it on a small diesel (perhaps something in a Sunsail boat, perhaps, or maybe Glen Rosa?) before filling your main tanks...

 

[tcm]

Right that\'s it

oh, you've gone and got all personal AGAIN! somehow...

I knew it was rubbish of course, cos "liquigel" can't be a powder, really. Or can it? Otherwise it seems quite good.....

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Huge foamy bubbles

I can see it all now. Heaps of white foamy bubbles exuding from the stern of D2 - not to mention that "just washed" smell.

Kinda goes with the ironing board on the bathing platform though eh! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Wiggo]

Re: Right that\'s it

Are you calling me a liar??? I'll see you in the car park, just after you've read this.

 

[hlb]

Looking here it all looks very simple really. Maybe TCM could just sieve the enzymes out of the persil.

web page

 

[ccscott49]

At the rate you use diesel, I would have thought it was uneccessary! Mind you it is meant to improve fuel consumption, that is decrease it! So I am reliable informed!!

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Right that\'s it

I object to you old guard cliques posting on subjects that haven't been covered before. I'd suggest you do a search for 'snakeoil'

 

[hlb]

Re: Right that\'s it

But can wiggo be regarded as Old Guard. He's only got 1500 post in, so should be regarded as Young Wippersnapper!!

 

[tcm]

Re: Right that\'s it

oh heck, that might mean we've just ganged up on him, cliqueily (?). In which case, i hereby nominate wiggo and everyone else into the exclusive mby clique, which neatly avoids anybody accusing anybody else of there being a clique, cos they're part of it as well.

 

[hlb]

Re: Right that\'s it

Maybe we should have a clique burgee, then we can tell who's in and who's out!!

 

[tcm]

Re: Right that\'s it

yeah we had one of those and you went and put a little "clique" symbol (denoted by number of posts in one corner. However, my own example is nice and faded to show that i used to be in the clique for ages although er outside in the car park...

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Right that\'s it

Yep, only those with over 8700 posts I'd suggest <eg>

 

[Wiggo]

Re: Right that\'s it

Bugger off, I was well over 1000 before I changed my name last. That nearly puts me on a par with, well, I don't really know. Anyway, I'm forming my own clique.

 

[PhilF]

Re: Right that\'s it

do you remember Clooks Clique, I think it was called, a club in Belsize Park

 

[tcm]

Re: Right that\'s it

where the flippin "- You- outside!" button? I asked for that ages ago...

 

[Wiggo]

Re: Right that\'s it

I think I remeber the adverts: Clooks Clique, every trip? And the bent copper shooting car tyres out with a 12 bore and trying to convince us it was a major contribution to road safety.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Re: Right that\'s it

Where the hell are you posting from? Thort you was definitely out!!

 

[tcm]

still hunting for soltron

anyway, from the comfort of my padded cell, i would still like some soltron...