Watch this space........

[boatone]

Following on from the diesel hoovering of last weekend. yesterday did a quick further suck to see if any more crud settled and also checked for water using water finding paste but only a trace,
Today went up river to 4all Marine at Laleham and, after dosing the tank with 125ml of Solly proceeded to fill up with 360 litres of diesel.
So, the die is cast. Will I notice a difference? How long will it take? Watch this space..........

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[longjohnsilver]

So what's happening to your home brew, has it fermented yet?

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[BarryH]

Bugger all. Its like B1, all murky and confused.I know he's confused, silly old sod was trying to wire a Faria fuel gauge off of a wiring diagram from summink else!

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[hlb]

Like I said on the phone. A bloody long time I would think at the amount of fuel you use!!

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[boatone]

How long did it take to get home from Reading, darling.....?

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[boatone]

Sad to say, I have to report that there has been no material change in the jam jar sample as of today. I must confess, howevver. that I have no confidence in my own clinical procedures relative to said jam jar and it has not been kept consistently in the dark as suggested by Dom.
Howver, The real test wiill come this weekend when Tahoe will be wending her way down the Thames to LImehouse and St Kats and I will get to see if there is any improvement in smoke levels, spasmodic racing or engine operating temperatures.
Tahoe has a full tank over 75% of which was introduced last Sunday along with a doiuble dose of elixir. I can only wait and see..,.........

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[longjohnsilver]

Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

Oh dear, not looking too good is it, MBM test showed no improvement now B1 and his sample much the same. Come on Dom give us some conclusive evidence that it works, not all these so called miracles. I really do want to believe it works but remain unconvinced.

I've used it in Blue Fisher throughout the winter, on my last but one trip the engine stopped with no advanced warning, not even a few splutters, just died. Filter was blocked! Changed the filter and off we went.

Thort this wasn't supposed to happen? Solly had been in the tank for months!

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[BrendanS]

Re: In defence of Soltron!

Have to say that the gunk in B1's jamjar was very unlikely to have been bug. Just nasty particulate matter that was stirred up after pumping exercise. Soltron is going to do nothing to particulates (eg bits of rust in a metal tank)

Likewise with yours, it could have been particulate matter, not biological matter that gunked up your filter

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[longjohnsilver]

Re: In defence of Soltron!

Well if that was the case for B1 surely it should have sunk to the bottom of the jar by now?

What you say could have been the case with my boat, but have been out in some fairly rough weather earlier in the winter (and throughout the last 5 years) and hoovered the bottom of the tank several years ago, and as the day the blockage occured was the proverbial millpond, don't think what you say is the cause.

All I'm asking for is some of the extensive evidence that Dom says he has, not just the stories that we see on here where there can be no conclusive proof that solly was the cause of the improvement.

As I say I would like to believe that it works, let's see the documented proof.

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[hlb]

Re: In defence of Soltron!

Not now John. He's just sent me a carton load of bottles to shift!!

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[longjohnsilver]

Re: In defence of Soltron!

Thort they were all for your 4 wheel drive thingy?

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[BrendanS]

Re: In defence of Soltron!

Some fine particulates may never settle out..particularly if convection currents set up etc, and diesel more viscous than water. Bugs will settle too don't forget, particularly when they clump.

Filters can bung up for all sorts of reasons. Only way you can tell if bug is to blame is have then analysed. They're there to take standard grot out don't forget. Just cos they blocked, it doesn't follow that bug is to blame. You'd probably have noticed if it was bug as would have been nasty slimy mess

If you look back through the various threads in which Soltron has popped up, I've been advocating some scientific evidence of the way in which it works, and that it really does work, rather than ancedotal evidence

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[boatone]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

To be fair, I was not necessarily expecting any significant changes to my jam jar contents. After all, I have no reason to believe that my tank contained diesel bug - certainly no black slimy stuff llike others have reported. The crud sucked from the bottom of the tank appears to be mostly solid matter, rust flakes etc -the tank is mild steel and has not been full for some time and IS 30 years old!
SO, as far as I am concerned, the claimed benifits of Solly will only show as engine performance, smoke levels etc as this new tankful of fuel gets through the system. There was not even any appreciable amount of water in the tank....only showed a trace on the wf pasted dipstick.
This weekend will also see an opportunity to open the throttles a bit more than is usually possible.....something I'm told is a good thing once in a while if engines have been running at consistently low revs.

Anyways, hlb claims it turned the diesel roadster into Cinderalla....what more proof do you want?

PS Some fine sediment did settle out from the diesel in the jar after which I decanted the fuel into a new jar. The sediment was extremely fine and would possibly even get thru a paper filter. The diesel in the new jar has shown no further sediment setlling and although slightly cloudy does look clean.

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[DepSol]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

MBM test, Oh you mean the report that went in without the final piece of the Jigsaw puzzle being added....the filtration test. I recommended as per one of my posts long ago when we first talked about doing tests that every product was supposed to have a filtration test but unfortunately MBM ran out of buget to do it.

According to your synopsis Soltron apparantly does not work because MBM ran out of budget and did not publish the results fully regarding the filtration test that we independantly paid for. Is that fair?

You say that your filter was blocked, what was blocking it scallop frills, rust, sand? If it wasn't broken down enough by Soltron then it must have been hard matter so I would therefore say be careful about where you get your fuel from as you havent been too fussy about thsi in the past, like a certain place in the Channel Islands where you werent too fussy about filling up!

As for Tonys test I went through with Tony why his test possibly didnt work on the phone but we wont go over that again.

On another note I had dinner with Martin and Erika last night and they send their best wishes to you.

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[BrendanS]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

Never mind all this free advertising, and the fact that I've just been defending your snake oil. When we going to have some real scientifically designed tests. And where are the tests the manufacturers must have performed? They have performed them haven't they?

I'm going with my new tag line, as you suggested

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[Freebee]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

The fact of the matter is quite simple its in the housekeeping if you drain your tank free of water and inspect a sample of fuel before you take it into your tank, change your filters annually you will not get a problem. You dont need soltron or any other additive, just dont be lazy after all the big ships, Royal Navy and cruise liners, cross channel ferries dont use soltron do they?

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[rich]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

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[DepSol]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

Ah but do they? Ok so I couldnt say if the RN did use it cos info on what the MOD are running is a highly confidential mater as we have had other countries Navy usng it and I cant give any info about that either but I have Sea Fishery protection vessels using it aswell as Police launches and we are running some trials with ferry companies.

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[DepSol]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

Brendan

I brought all the info you required to Mercury but you were more interested in drinking beer, well who can blame you, but it was there for you to view. as I said before I am not publishing this stuff on the web.

I had all the QUB, Volvo and other test.lab reports and will have some more soon as we have some injectors coming back from Delphi soon that have been lab tested.

Free advertising it may be for now (altho I am just making responces to false accusations) but I wil end up paying for it at some point in the very near future, dont worry.

PS what do you reckon to my new tag line?

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[BrendanS]

Re: Awaiting further updates with bated breath!

Dom,

More than happy to give you/snakeoil the benefit of doubt, but in the meantime, gives us great windup factor, to which you are guaranteed to respond.

I'll keep my tagline for now....and you are welcome to keep yours! Bring the data to the next event and I'll give it a look. What did you expect of the event?, we were all drinking, and I can remember having quite a good chat with you, and was sober enough to have taken a look at anything you'd brought with you /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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