The art of finding good fuel

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If you find yourself on the lower TennTom, then buy fuel at Demopolis Yacht Basin. I was hauled out there for a month doing a bottom job and some other work and watched tanker trucks coming in daily to deliver fuel - they sell about 20,000 gal per day of diesel to the tugs on the waterway - always fresh!
 
Benchmark sorry no ferries in southeast Florida unless you visit South Beach. :)
 
BandB. Thanks for the info.
 
I managed the fuel farm and fuel trucks at the FBO I worked for. We tested our tanks and trucks daily and drained off any water. We had 100LL avgas and Jet A fuels. We had a little device, the name of it escapes me, it looks like a kaleidoscope. It used glass strips similar to a microscope. We put a few drops of fuel on the glass slides, put them in the device, and view the fuel close up. If we had any water or debris, it was easy to see. There was a chart included that spec'd how much water and debris were acceptable along with the acceptable size of the droplets or particles. I found it all quite interesting and enjoyable to do.
 
ben2go said:
I managed the fuel farm and fuel trucks at the FBO I worked for. We tested our tanks and trucks daily and drained off any water. We had 100LL avgas and Jet A fuels. We had a little device, the name of it escapes me, it looks like a kaleidoscope. It used glass strips similar to a microscope. We put a few drops of fuel on the glass slides, put them in the device, and view the fuel close up. If we had any water or debris, it was easy to see. There was a chart included that spec'd how much water and debris were acceptable along with the acceptable size of the droplets or particles. I found it all quite interesting and enjoyable to do.
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Devices to do so are readily available and quite useful. Used regularly by suppliers testing tanks and trucks, used by some marinas, and we use them on our boats.
 
BandB said:
Devices to do so are readily available and quite useful. Used regularly by suppliers testing tanks and trucks, used by some marinas, and we use them on our boats.
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Do you know the name of those little scopes? I can't remember it and searching has turned up nothing. I may have to break my google rule and use google. :cry:
 
ben2go said:
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Do you know the name of those little scopes? I can't remember it and searching has turned up nothing. I may have to break my google rule and use google. :cry:
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I posted links in Post #33. Here they are again.

Here are a couple of sites with the test equipment.

https://www.fleetfueltesting.com/

https://www.dieselfueltestkit.com/

Test kits or test tubes. Similar to what you use for a pool. Or, and this is one I bet not many are aware of, a select few really good convenience stores test their soft drinks to maintain the proper ratio. Oh, and you wonder why Coca-Cola seems to taste different at McDonalds? It is different. Just a tad more syrupy.
 
Hopcar once had a funnel device he was testing to check for water as you started to fill.
 
BandB said:
I posted links in Post #33. Here they are again.

Here are a couple of sites with the test equipment.

https://www.fleetfueltesting.com/

https://www.dieselfueltestkit.com/

Test kits or test tubes. Similar to what you use for a pool. Or, and this is one I bet not many are aware of, a select few really good convenience stores test their soft drinks to maintain the proper ratio. Oh, and you wonder why Coca-Cola seems to taste different at McDonalds? It is different. Just a tad more syrupy.
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