| I do not use the Baha filter. Everyone thinks I’m crazy.
For years I have bought fuel in jerry cans with water, sand, crude and all sorts of other questionable “stuff” in it. I use a siphon pump combination to draw off the clean supernatant diesel fuel. Why filter crude you can see lying at the bottom of the jug. Tipping the jug over for pouring just stirs that crude up. The little bit left in each jug, perhaps a pint or two, I dump into a 5 Gallon jug and let sit on deck for a few days. Then I draw the fuel off. The remains I use to start fires for burning trash onshore.
If the fuel is so thick you cannot see into it I have to question using it at all. Let it sit for a few hours. Should the vendor of that crap be inconvenienced by that so be it, it’s garbage and he is well aware of it.
I have known cruisers who buy fuel at half price from entrepreneurs in Colon Panama. It’s the bottoms or the”scrapings” from fuel barges that are periodically cleaned out. It is full of all kinds of crap. It’s waste. They filter it for hours in their Baha filters. Then they complain that their racor plugs up.
Any “crap” that I miss in the above process is picked up by two giant sized diesel fuel filters. Each one is about 10 times the size the engine requires, each insert is $15-$20, lasts years. The fuel then goes to the fine filter on the engine, no racor.
Just this past year to make more room I cut out one of my tanks. I did not find any “crap” in the 30 year old tank, just the usual black mould film on the interior surface. |