[AT] Gas can rant

[Alan Nadeau]

A fellow employee was once faced with cleaning out a 50 gal. truck gas tank 
prior to welding repairs on it.  He had worked with de-fuming tank trailers 
previously and to de-fume those they suck air through the tank with a 
non-sparking axial fan.  He was going to use a shop vac to suck the fumes 
out of the small tank until I prevailed on him that the shop vac would be 
exhausting the fumes through the motor where all those little sparks 
resided.

OTOH, I have heard it is great sport to suck fumes, maybe even liquid 
gasoline, through a discarded household vacuum equipped with a very long 
extension cord(so you can plug in the turned on vacuum from afar).  I've 
always wanted to try that.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Gas can rant


> When I mentioned a hand drill I was thinking about a used can. An electric
> drill would be fine for a brand new can but if a used can had a teaspoon 
> of
> gasoline in it and someone absently picked up a power drill the carbon
> brush arcing could make it interesting. Not that any of us would ever do
> something absently...
> :-)
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