T&T: Racors and water in the fuel - follow up

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'Lo All,

Turning back to a mental page out of my "flying manual" from the '60s 
when flying my PA-12 Family Cruiser (forerunner of the Piper Super 
Cub) in Alaska: I always carried 5-10 gallons of fuel in the baggage 
compartment when flying cross-country. To put the fuel into the tanks 
required a funnel, which ALWAYS had a piece of real chamois in it. 
Once saturated with fuel, the chamois would not pass water. I 
occasionally had a teaspoon or so full of water in the 
chamois/funnel, but it never entered the fuel tanks.

I personally have never tried to pass diesel though a chamois, but 
others have told me that is the only way they will refuel their boats 
when in out of the way places. It just takes a lot longer. They use a 
much larger funnel that holds several gallons of fuel and has a 
special holder for the chamois to provide a very large filtering 
surface. A smaller version is, I think, called a Baja Filter.

Some automotive places sell a type of material that is called 
chamois, but it is not the "real" stuff. I do not know if it would 
work the same. It is used to dry off cars as is the real chamois, but 
I do not know anything about its fuel filtering characteristics.


Take care and be safe.

Wayne
M/V Celestial
Albin43 Sundeck