|
|
|
|
|||||
|
||||||
From: Chuck Shipley (no email)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2006 - 14:01:40 EDT
Others have said as much, but somewhat more obliquely. Jeffrey has put it
out there in plain words. He wants the secondary to be "used and
operational", i.e. useful.
I don't, because "being useful" means getting dirty, and getting dirty means
all-too-soon needing changing.
To me, wanting the secondary to be useful is like a football coach insisting
that the defensive line let a few ball carriers through so that the
secondary will have something to do. :-)
--chuck shipley
Tusen Takk II
KK48-022 North Sea
On 6/30/06, Jeffrey Siegel <> wrote:
>
> On my boat, I like the operational components to be used and
> operational. I
> close every seacock on the boat when I leave it. We have two showers and
> two heads and my wife and I make sure to use both of them even though it
> means cleaning twice as much. I have two sets of house battery chargers -
> I
> use both, switching off every few uses. I feel that an unused item is an
> item that will fail when it is needed for use.
>
> This same logic can extend itself to fuel filters. If I have a 2 micron
> primary and a 2 micron secondary, the reality is that the primary is doing
> all of the work. The secondary probably isn't adding much. In short, it
> really isn't being used. This violates the aCappella rule of logic -
> operational components should be used and operational.
>
> If I have a 30 micron primary and a 2 micron secondary, each filter is
> doing
> its part to clean the fuel. There isn't any extra work demanded on one
> over
> the other. I also change my filters at regular intervals and view and
> record the primary vacuum reading every 2 hours while underway. I have a
> pretty good idea when my filters are getting used up.
>
> The fact that JD suggests a 30/2 configuration is just icing on the cake
> for
> me. The bottom line is that it makes sense to me.
>
>
> --
> Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body
> and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get
> rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances
> drive them to do.
> --Harriet Beecher Stowe
_______________________________________________
http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering
To unsubscribe send email to
with the word
UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message.
Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World
Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
|