Date:         Thu, 26 May 2005 16:14:42 -0400
Reply-To:     Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
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From:         Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Smoking @ Gas Stations (was Re: Fridge....) NVC
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Yep, and I haven't been hit by a train while crossing the tracks yet...
but I still look both ways!     :-)

I just wanted to make everyone out there *thinks* before just accepting the
"go ahead and drive with yer fridge lit" line... I'm sure it's fine 99.9%
of the time, but that gas pump danger should be considered.

Me, I run it on 12V while driving... not out of safety considerations, it's
just that the nearest place to fill my propane tank here in NJ is almost 50
miles away... filling the tank is too inconvenient for me to go wasting
precious propane when I can let the alternator cool the fridge! :-)

I'll do my yearly fill-up of the propane tank tomorrow, the fill-er-up stop
is on my way to Westies in the Woods!

Tim

At 11:59 AM 5/26/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>**  John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>  writes: **
>
> > It's actually even dumber than smoking. Igniting gasoline with a lit
> > cigarette requires very specific conditions that are suprisingly hard
> > to create
>
>This reminds me of the old guy that used to
>work at the local Vickers fillerup in the small town I
>grew up in as a kid..
>
>Due to the  initial onset of Parkinsons, he's
>holding that lit cig in one hand.. it's
>shaking, while he fills your tank with
>the other!  ;-)  (this is *not* an urban legend)
>
>Rose Hill, KS circa 1975 or so.
>
>As kids, we'd go buy there to get a
>bottle of orange/grape soda out of their
>machine for a nickle.
>
>The station never exploded BTW
>
>  -tim
>
>
>90 syncro westy
>mesa, az