At 09:09 AM 6/17/97 -0500, Jeff Carver wrote: >There is a real potential for fires caused by filling gas cans while >tha cans are in a plastic bed liner in a truck (I suppose the same >could be true for those newer plastic station wagon liners too). > >Apparently the plastic bed liner can attain a sufficient static >electrical potential that the act of filling a gas can placed on the >plastic liner can initiate a spark, and boom, gas fire. > >DO NOT FILL GAS CANS IN THE BED OF A TRUCK WITH A >PLASTIC BED LINER Actually, I believe this is true. The problem is not static in the plastic bed... it's that the plastic bed doesn't allow the static generated by pouring the gas to dissipate. (You'll notice that airport fuel trucks ground themselves to the tarmac whilst fueling jets.) Coyote -- /\_/\ ____ Ron 'Coyote' Lussier ( ) \ _/__ LikeMinds (408) 865-0657 \ / \X / "Tools that Help People Decide" coyote@likeminds.com \_/ \/ http://www.likeminds.com/
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