I am quite certain the spark plugs from the vehicle stand a much better chance than your pv................so you better push your car down the street before you start it..
Vaping at a gas station
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ive always been scared of the car catching on fire from static and I am trapped inside. Everytime my hubby fills the car up, I unbuckle my seatbelt, and get in a position to cover/grab kids and ....~ (I don't think it would happen, but I do. ya know?)
Paranoid much?
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Paranoid much?
lols
We'll see it in the Darwin awards one day..."E-cig ignites fumes at the pump"
The atomizer in an e cig does glow, at least on one of my Scorpions it did...of course VG and PG are not flammable..
Mythbusters never did try that one out.
And there are fumes while you filling, unless you live in one of them fancy states with mandated vapor recovery pumps...
The atomizer in an e cig does glow, at least on one of my Scorpions it did...of course VG and PG are not flammable..
Mythbusters never did try that one out.
And there are fumes while you filling, unless you live in one of them fancy states with mandated vapor recovery pumps...
VN - good call on getting the wife to fill-er-up ... but .. good luck convincing her of the necessity
yeah, that's likely to lead to an ignition of a whole nother kind lol.
"And there are fumes while you filling, unless you live in one of them fancy states with mandated vapor recovery pumps..." -BigBob
I do, I do. Still not supposed to do any of those 'naughty' things at the pump.
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Does anyone ever actually hear of gas stations blowing up? The last time I saw anything like that happening was in Zoolander.
Last gas station I heard of blowing up had something to do with a car accident .. I can't remember the details now though.. it's been a while
Does anyone ever actually hear of gas stations blowing up? The last time I saw anything like that happening was in Zoolander.
YouTube - The woolen sweater static electricity gas station ferments the fire
The flash point of the liquid is not what you have to worry about. You need to worry about the air to vapor ratio. I don't know what it is off hand, but when the ideal ratio has been reached, any spark will set it off. (Or any atomizer coil)
Same as a natural gas leak in a house. It just gets stinky until the ratio is right, and then.........you know the rest.
Lucky girl. That was the gasoline vapor igniting. Conditions were ideal at the nozzle. An e-cig can easily do the same thing.
As a teen I used to work at a full service gas station and by mistake would come out and fill someones tank while smoking. Most of this stuff is overblown. In fact if you take gasoline and try to light it with a real cig it will just put it out and i tried to do it before. Now if you are in a room with gas vapors filling it and sparked a lighter thats another thing.
Oh and the using laptops while while the plain is taking off seems a little far fetched too.
Oh and how about mechanics welding parts on gas tanks that still have gas in them? They don't seem to worry about it
Anyone heard of a cell phone starting a gas station on fire?
Oh and the using laptops while while the plain is taking off seems a little far fetched too.
Oh and how about mechanics welding parts on gas tanks that still have gas in them? They don't seem to worry about it
Anyone heard of a cell phone starting a gas station on fire?
I had a friend in the 80's who was dumber than dirt. He was junking out a car and decided to cut the straps holding the gas tank with a torch. The tank clam shelled (exploded) right above him when the fumes ignited, he survived, but suffered for years and is permanently and severely scared for life. I'm not sure if he was 'lucky' to be alive or not.
Is it Ron White who says "You can't fix stupid" ?
Is it Ron White who says "You can't fix stupid" ?
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It's OK Jim, we need more Darwin award stories...
Common sense seems to be rather uncommon.
I know a man who was a welder on a construction site years ago out in Chicago I believe he said it was (this guy's like 60something and it happened about 30 - 40 years ago..) and apparently he wasn't informed that the construction site had previously been a gas station years before that and they had left the gas holding tanks in the ground. Somehow (and even he doesn't know how) they managed to get too close to an unknown fume leak while welding and the tank exploded, caught him on fire & the only reason he's alive is that he was close enough to the river side of the construction site that he was able to jump in the water. He was burned on over 60% of his body and got hypothermia from the freezing water.
To this day he's still having surgeries to remove bad scar tissue and make things easier. He told me the story when I saw him one day and asked why it looked like he'd had the crap beat out of him (both eyes were black & blue and swollen with stitches) He had just had surgery done on his eyes because the scar tissue was causing him problems. The only part of the man that I've ever seen that wasn't scared up was his scalp and a band on his arm where he'd been wearing a watch.
People might do risky things around gas and fumes a million times but all it takes is 1 to .... everything up for you.. why risk it?
To this day he's still having surgeries to remove bad scar tissue and make things easier. He told me the story when I saw him one day and asked why it looked like he'd had the crap beat out of him (both eyes were black & blue and swollen with stitches) He had just had surgery done on his eyes because the scar tissue was causing him problems. The only part of the man that I've ever seen that wasn't scared up was his scalp and a band on his arm where he'd been wearing a watch.
People might do risky things around gas and fumes a million times but all it takes is 1 to .... everything up for you.. why risk it?
Get a "WonderWheel". Remember the one in "The Toy" - a Richard Pryor movie...
Considering that you can't even light gasoline on fire with an analog, I think you're fine to vape at the pump. I do.
Watch this. Static electricty is real. 3.7 volt is more than the static charge I would think.
Myth Busters is entertainment
Here is another- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAaj3DkA-w
wow I'm glad someone brought this up- I knew I shouldn't vape while re-fueling but something makes me want to- bad idea!
Another Cell Phone- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gct1BmKNvU0
Myth Busters is entertainment
Here is another- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAaj3DkA-w
wow I'm glad someone brought this up- I knew I shouldn't vape while re-fueling but something makes me want to- bad idea!
Another Cell Phone- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gct1BmKNvU0
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