Color Coding Fill Caps

[Captain_C]

To reduce confusion I plan to paint the fill caps for my water, fuel, and
waste tanks. Is there a standard color convention? I am settling on the
following:

Fuel (Diesel) - Yellow
Waste - Green
Fresh Water - Light Blue

If I used gasoline, I'd use red.

Anybody know a widely accepted scheme?

[Paul and Cindy Kruse]

Capt...@usa.pipeline.com(Captain_C) wrote:

The guy who delivers fuel to our heavy equipment had us use red for
gasoline and green for diesel fuel. He seems to think that this is
the standard, but I do not know about the other fluids.

plk...@iu.net (Paul Kruse)

[James Waskowich]

Captain_C wrote:
>
> To reduce confusion I plan to paint the fill caps for my water, fuel, and

> waste tanks. Is there a standard color convention...

My Jeanneau came with color coded deck fills:

Blue for fresh water.
Black for waste.
Red for diesel.

Who knows, maybe the French have their own separate scheme... For sure,
the color codes on their electrical wiring was different than the
convention used here in the US of A.

Jim

[Steve Weingart]

In article <51n6sq$t...@cc.iu.net>,
plk...@iu.net (Paul and Cindy Kruse) wrote:

>Capt...@usa.pipeline.com(Captain_C) wrote:
>
>>To reduce confusion I plan to paint the fill caps for my water, fuel, and

>>waste tanks. Is there a standard color convention? I am settling on the
>>following:
>>
>>Fuel (Diesel) - Yellow
>>Waste - Green
>>Fresh Water - Light Blue
>>
>>If I used gasoline, I'd use red.
>>
>>Anybody know a widely accepted scheme?
>
>
>The guy who delivers fuel to our heavy equipment had us use red for
>gasoline and green for diesel fuel. He seems to think that this is
>the standard, but I do not know about the other fluids.
>
>plk...@iu.net (Paul Kruse)
>

I just checked in a marine supply catalog and found the following:

Red - gasoline
Red - diesel
Blue - water
Black - waste

Using red for both gasoline and diesel seems dumb, but that is what is
being sold, the word is embossed in the color coded cap.

Steve

[T.O. Galloway]

Some of the stores sell color coded deck fills. I would stay with the
color convention that these companies use just to be consistant. In the
West Marine catalog on page 786 they use the following:

Gas & Diesel (guess they figure your're only going to have one)-Red
Water-Blue
Waste-Black

T.O.
SV Compromise
Caliber 40

[Baker Mitchell]

> > Is there a standard color convention? I am settling on the
> > following:
> >
> > Fuel (Diesel) - Yellow
> > Waste - Green
> > Fresh Water - Light Blue
> >
> > If I used gasoline, I'd use red.
> >
> > Anybody know a widely accepted scheme?

I have, in various states of exhaustion, confusion, etc., probably
accomplished all permutations and combinations of filling whatever into
where-ever. I'm not sure color-coding is the complete answer. If I could
train myself to drink and bath in diesel and get my Yanmar to run on
water, I'd feel fairly assured about the situation. Perhaps a single
filler cap labeled "Wasel" or "Dieter" and an automatic separator is the
answer. Surely, the Sea of Anarchy YC has published a Tech Tip on this
topic?
Regards, Baker Mitchell

[Paul and Cindy Kruse]

s...@gate.net (Steve Weingart) wrote:

>In article <51n6sq$t...@cc.iu.net>,
> plk...@iu.net (Paul and Cindy Kruse) wrote:

>>Capt...@usa.pipeline.com(Captain_C) wrote:
>>
>>>To reduce confusion I plan to paint the fill caps for my water, fuel, and

>>>waste tanks. Is there a standard color convention? I am settling on the

>>>following:
>>>
>>>Fuel (Diesel) - Yellow
>>>Waste - Green
>>>Fresh Water - Light Blue
>>>
>>>If I used gasoline, I'd use red.
>>>
>>>Anybody know a widely accepted scheme?
>>
>>

>>The guy who delivers fuel to our heavy equipment had us use red for
>>gasoline and green for diesel fuel. He seems to think that this is
>>the standard, but I do not know about the other fluids.
>>
>>plk...@iu.net (Paul Kruse)
>>

>I just checked in a marine supply catalog and found the following:

>Red - gasoline
>Red - diesel
>Blue - water
>Black - waste

>Using red for both gasoline and diesel seems dumb, but that is what is
>being sold, the word is embossed in the color coded cap.

I also do not understand red for both diesel and gas. Since most
boats only have one or the other, perhaps it works out OK. In my
case, it is a big problem if the fuel delivery guy puts the wrong fuel
in a piece of heavy equipment in the field.

plk...@iu.net (Paul Kruse)

[Darwin Hall]

In article <51n6sq$t...@cc.iu.net>, Paul and Cindy Kruse <plk...@iu.net> wrote:
>Capt...@usa.pipeline.com(Captain_C) wrote:
>
>>To reduce confusion I plan to paint the fill caps for my water, fuel, and
>>waste tanks. Is there a standard color convention? I am settling on the
>>following:
>>
>>Fuel (Diesel) - Yellow
>>Waste - Green
>>Fresh Water - Light Blue
>>
>>If I used gasoline, I'd use red.
>>
>>Anybody know a widely accepted scheme?
>
>
>The guy who delivers fuel to our heavy equipment had us use red for
>gasoline and green for diesel fuel. He seems to think that this is
>the standard, but I do not know about the other fluids.
>

The deck fills that I purchased had the following color schemes:

Fresh water - blue
Pumpout - black
Fuel - Red

Regards
Darwin Hall
Hunter 30 "LYRE"

--
Regards, "The secret to a long life is
Darwin Hall knowing when it's time to go."
hal...@one.net Michelle Shocked

[John Webb]

In article: <323F2A...@mail.snet.net> James Waskowich
<jwa...@mail.snet.net> writes:

> Who knows, maybe the French have their own separate scheme... For
sure,
> the color codes on their electrical wiring was different than the
> convention used here in the US of A.
>

One hopes it was the same as the rest of Europe, quite a large area.
--

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| John T Webb EMail jtw...@modsw166.demon.co.uk |
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[Alida and Colin Dewey]

On our boats, and on the ships and tugs I can remember it's yellow-gold
for diesel, blue for water, green for lube oil, I think. Dunno ablut
waste.

Colin Dewey
Pilot Boat California, SF Bar

[Innocuous]

While paying my tithe at the Church of West Marine, I saw some color coded
plastic filler caps. They had Blue (water), brown (waste), green
(diesel), and maybe red (gas). The caps had an o-ring too.

I was looking for a flat washer (maybe it's really an old squished o-ring)
for my old brass diesel caps. Was wondering about these colored, plastic,
o-ring replacements. Plastic vs brass doesn't sound very good, but old vs
new does. Any comments, suggestions.

Thanks

[Knocka]

On Sep 17, 1996 18:47:13 in article <Re: Color Coding Fill Caps>, 'James
Waskowich <jwa...@mail.snet.net>' wrote:

>Captain_C wrote:
>>
>> To reduce confusion I plan to paint the fill caps for my water, fuel,
and

>> waste tanks. Is there a standard color convention...
>
>My Jeanneau came with color coded deck fills:
>
>Blue for fresh water.
>Black for waste.
>Red for diesel.
>

>Who knows, maybe the French have their own separate scheme... For sure,
>the color codes on their electrical wiring was different than the
>convention used here in the US of A.
>

>Jim

Jim, Of course the French have a different system - since they drink so
little water -they use the red for red wine and the white for white wine,
No color is assigned to water and the waste color in still under discussion
, John

[Rod Mc Innis]

: >Red - gasoline

: >Red - diesel
: >Blue - water
: >Black - waste

: >Using red for both gasoline and diesel seems dumb, but that is what is
: >being sold, the word is embossed in the color coded cap.

I thought yellow was being used for diesel?

Rod McInnis