> >Gasoline in liquid form doesn't burn. The danger is from the vapors that are > >given off from the gasoline as the temparture increases rapidly. Diesel > >fuel is extremely safe in liquid form. If the temperature of the fuel (gas In fact as an illustration of this, A good friend of mine used to in his pre-college years drive a tanker truck, he had seen a guy weld using an oxy/acet torch patches on a leaking above ground 1000? gallon gasoline tank, standard practice I understand. No danger at all as long as you are welding well below the fluid level I guess, even though the leaking stuff will ignite and fall to the ground. John
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