[AT] Gas can rant

[charlie hill]

Darrell,  years ago my mother asked me to deliver a package to one of her 
old lady friends.
When I got there Miss Daisy proceeded to tell me about her vacuum cleaner 
catching fire.
It was one of those old Electrolux on skids that pulled the air right 
straight in the front,
through the bag, through the fan, across the motor and out the back.   I 
asked her what happened
she said well I decided to vacuum the soot out of my (kerosene pot heater) 
and it caught fire.

I said, "Miss Daisy, you built a jet engine, you just didn't know it"  She 
looked at me like I was
crazy or she wasn't hearing right.  I didn't try to explain.  grins.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Darrell Ratliff
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 12:31 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Gas can rant

I know a fellow who did that with a cub gas tank and his wife’s canister 
vacuum.  It blew the vacuum apart and made quite a bit of noise but 
fortunately for him – no physical harm.  I don’t know if I would have told 
on myself or not but he took his good natured ribbings quite well.  His wife 
appreciated the new vacuum.....

From: Alan Nadeau
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:44 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Gas can rant

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>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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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