On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:52:23 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

That's true and fairly well known but it's a different problem.

Considering how promptly stuff started showing up in my filter bowl after I
started puting in StarTron, I think it must be doing a pretty good job of
moving the stuff into suspension and into the fuel intake. This is also a
sailboat the routinely heels 15 - 20 degrees so the tank gets pretty well
mixed. Thge slow build up from stuff moved into suspension is what I'm
concerned about tracking. You can't do much about the sudden clogs except
be ready to change filters in less than optimum conditions.


A guy in Singapore who used four or five filters moving his new (to
him) boat about ten miles from Raffels marina to the Republic of
Singapore club spent several days washing out his tank and then added
some stuff called "soltron". I think it is the same stuff except sold
in the U.K. He got much the same effect, fine deposits in the filter
bowl. It lasted for some time, as I remember. He had vacuum gages on
his filters and said that the filters didn't seem to be clogging, just
this "stuff" in the filter bowls.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)