[AT] Gas can rant

[Robert]

I actually saw a guy try to get the gas fumes from a gas tank with a shop vac. Didn't quite work the way he intended. He was lucky it was out side of the shop in the parking area. Downside was the fire extinguishers left white residue all over the black top and the side of the bosses truck!!

Bob

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> On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Alan Nadeau <ajnadeau1 at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Central Indiana USA
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