Fuel tank removal

I had half a tank of unusable diesel (don't ask how).
Living on the outskirts of London, finding a farm was not very easy but the farmer was happy that I emptied it over his (unlit) bonfire. 

Remind me when bonfire night is!

Guys I don't mean to be rude but.......Yeah this is the southern hemisphere, were coming into bushfire season, nobody is going to be having bonfires till late Autumn

But it is late autumn!
M

Awaiting, with interest, how you get it back in! Creating a partial vacuum in it, if that’s feasible, for a couple of days, might accelerate that shrinkage everyone claims happens.

if ever I go for petrol and see the tanker there, I go somewhere else or delay it by a day, because the process of filling the tanks stirs up all the shit in it.   But how many times have I filled up where the tanker left only 5 minutes earlier?

Makes you wonder how long before that petrol station’s tanks start leaking fuel into the ground.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-13866003/The-leafy-village-devastated-Asda-petrol-station-leak-Britain-mercy-incompetent-corporates.html

An interesting collection of debris cleaned from the tank.
How did it get there? Who knows!
It is known that if certain fuel additives are not added in the correct way then precipitation can occur. By that I mean you have to add “X” to the fuel storage tank first before adding the basic petrol (in the refinery blending tanks), similarly you must add “Y” to the basic fuel in the storage tank for the same reasons.
Heaven knows what happens to fuel from different suppliers (at the pumps) if it is mixed with that from another refinery, or for that matter what happens if aftermarket additives are added.
There are many “rubber” hoses involved in conveying fuel from refinery into your car. So it is not too surprising to think that some “rubbery gloop” came out but a bit alarming never the less. What happens at garage forecourt and storage tank maintenance is another obvious place for foreign matter to enter the system.
It just shows the need for a filter in the car before it blocks the injectors!

We are assiduous in our service regime; you look at the kit of service parts, do you see a fuel filter with the oil, oil & air filters, plugs etc. I don’t recall see one recently however I haven’t done an exhaustive search, but I have put one on my list of things to change, when everything is attended to in spring. (Roll on spring).
M

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Cobber,  what I have done with old fuel is mix it with some fresh and used it in our lawn mower, it smells really bad and the mower doesn't like it much but it's being used. 

We’ll it’s a good job someone’s on the ball. I have to say that the little pile of bits illustrated on one advertisement I looked, to recap didn’t have the fuel filter, the other two did, so I was 33.3% correct, which is probably a pass these days, instead of the “requires significant improvement” when I was worrying about exam results.
M

R40MGF wrote:

Cobber,  what I have done with old fuel is mix it with some fresh and used it in our lawn mower, it smells really bad and the mower doesn't like it much but it's being used. 
 

I pay a bloke to mow the lawns, I got better things to do than chase a bloody lawn mower around the yard let alone maintain the horrid things.....I despise small engines they are backward and poorly designed rubbish built to the lowest possible cost