Date:         Mon, 9 May 2011 18:59:15 -0600
Reply-To:     Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: What Learned Yesterday - luggage rack edition
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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So you mounted the rotopax in the luggage rack? How do you get the gas
from the tank to the filler nozzle- long hose, unfasten tank, or ???
How do you fill rotopax?

Mr. BZ-so many questions so little understanding.


On May 9, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> As part of being prepared for the imminent zombie apocalypse, I pulled
> off the luggage rack so I could do a little drilling and mount a
> Rotopax
> 3-gallon fuel "pack" up there
> ( http://www.rotopax.com/3-Gallon-Gasoline.html ).
>
> When it comes time to re-install the luggage rack, here is what I
> learned:
>
> Don't tighten down the nuts on the four aft bolts that poke through
> the
> holes in the luggage rack until you've fiddled with the location of
> the
> rack to assure that the two bolt holes on the sides and two on the
> front
> line up with the threaded holes in their respective brackets.
>
> But now I have three spare gallons of Stabil-ized fuel under lock and
> key up there. Zombies have no need for gasoline but I reckon there
> are a
> couple guys in my neighborhood that might be tempted.
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR