Vaping while pumping gas???

[Recycled Roadkill]

Paranoid people. A coil immersed in liquid is not going ignite gasoline vapor. No way, no how. A static electricity discharge from your clothing is more likely to do that.

Warnings at the gas pumps, at least here in Texas, suggest discharging yourself to the vehicle prior to pumping gas.

Someday, someone is gonna manage to start a fire at the pumps, somehow using their PV. I'll apologize for my position at that time.

 

[Dougiestyle]

Atmospheric conditions must contribute to creating a volatile situation with gasoline. I have personally extinguished a lit cigarette in gasoline to prove to my laborers that it's really not that big a deal. There is risk of ignition/explosion if the fumes are concentrated from a spark. Some mechanicals with certain builds with create micro-arcing when the button makes contact with the battery. I don't believe the micro-arcing is sufficient to create an explosion from gasoline under normal re-fueling conditions. Now, if it's miserably hot with 0 winds, I ceratinly wouldn't fire a mechanical within 3' of the filler neck while pumping gas, otherwise, I don't see must risk.

Bystanders may see reckless behavior in a vaper taking a puff while pumping gas. Best to wait or step away if busy-bodies are around.

 

[Miata GT]

I don't think it's a danger but, IMO, it's as blatantly stupid and disrespectful as obviously vaping in a restaurant. Just gives us all a bad name.

 

[montara]

Don't use ANY battery operated device while pumping gas. Static electricity is the potential problem ... not the coil in the PV.
So far no fire has ever been ignited by an e-cig, but why would you want to be the first person to do so?

^Word.
Also inhaling gas fumes can make your juice taste funny.

 

[Mowgli]

I vump and I also vape while I gas up.

 

[Veerdin]

I wouldn't not for a fear of risk, but for a fear of being called out and having to explain that I'm not actually smoking a cigarette. The situation would just be too embarrassing and time consuming to deal with.

 

[DaveP]

Lots of things can produce static ... your gas can as you slide it across a vinyl bed liner or carpet, your clothes touching a grounding source, your fingers after you walk back from checking the oil and then touch the gas pump nozzle, or just shuffling your feet while filling up.

Unless there's a micro spark from the enclosed fire button switch in your ecig, it's the least of your worries when pumping gas. I will retract my statement when an ecig is blamed for a gas station fire. No doubt, if the person with the fire was vaping, the news will relay that fact as a possible cause. Mean old evil electronic cigarettes! Sheesh!

Don't drive over spilled gas at the station with your car. That smoking hot catalytic converter is just waiting for a chance ...

 

[Shootist]

Why scare other folks who may think it is smoke from a cigarette? If you can't wait the three or four minutes then you have issues. Anyway, when pumping gas, you ought to pay full attention to that task and leave your vapes in the car.

You are kidding, aren't you?

3 or 4 minutes to fill up my gas tank in my truck. Not likely unless all I need is a quarter of a tank and then maybe only 3 or 4 minutes.
Not sure how gas pumps work in TN but here in GA they only deliver so much gas per minute, GPM. Even if it was 3Gal a Min and I needed 15 gallons that would be 5 minutes just to pump the gas. That's not counting the time to run the CC, open the tank, select the grade and then put it all back right.

Scare Who????

If someone asks I would tell them I'm NOT SMOKING because I'M NOT SMOKING. I'm not burning anything. I am inhaling and expelling VAPOR, NOT SMOKE.

 

[Shootist]

Best answer yet!

Not in my opinion. Actually not even close to the best answer. Just another Scared Rabbit running and hiding the fact that he is Vaping and Not Smoking.

 

[Shootist]

My son works as a Firefighter in the Pits at Daytona International Speedway. He was working one day and caught sight of a cloud blowing up behind him. Now, there are typically a large number of high octane fuel tanks sitting around the pits so smoking is an absolute no-no.

He walked back to check it out and found a guy vaping! Just to be safe, they still asked him not to vape within the pit area...

And what does that have to do with vaping while pumping gas into a street vehicle?

 

[defdock]

i have somewhat tested this theory already. it will not ignite up to 11watts forsure.


i used my mvp and rebuilt a dripper with no wick, SPECIFICALY to use as a cigarette lighter for those who i hang out with. one random day we were starting a bonfire and had used gasoline as starting fluid. with the coil literaly touching wood that was soaked with gasoline at 11watts - it did not light.

 

[Rodeorat]

Yeah, some of these replies are odd. There is ZERO chance to catch any fuel on fire at the pump, unless you're dry burning a .05 ohm, quad coil, and your wick catches fire. Even then, the fire would have to come in direct contact with fuel, in liquid form. If you've got gas spewing out of your tank and pooling on the ground, and all over you, yeah put the PV down and get some help.
I fail to see how vaping at the tank is rude, insensitive, unaware of anyone else. There is no danger to yourself or others. There is only misconceptions, in which case its an opportunity to educate.

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

I do it all the time. But I didn't realized it until this thread.

If it's a hazard I guess we had better turn off our cell phones and take the batteries out of wrist watches. Perhaps even turn our engines off and "coast" into the pumps even? Keep in mind I'm old enough to remember actually pumping fuel while smoking.

Not discounting everyone's point they've made here... I just think we've all been "socially engineered" too much these days.

 

[Baldr]

I mean the coil is kind of a ignitor is it not?

I'm gonna go with "not". None of mine have ever ignited anything.

I don't usually vape at the gas pump, mostly because while it's pumping, I clean my windshield, dump my trash basket, etc. I don't see any harm with it other than maybe freaking out people who think you are smoking.

 

[Tmg666]

i have somewhat tested this theory already. it will not ignite up to 11watts forsure.


i used my mvp and rebuilt a dripper with no wick, SPECIFICALY to use as a cigarette lighter for those who i hang out with. one random day we were starting a bonfire and had used gasoline as starting fluid. with the coil literaly touching wood that was soaked with gasoline at 11watts - it did not light.

I'll light candles with my valkyrie before wicking it and adding juice, it amuses me every time more then a regular lighter would lol

 

[zoiDman]

I think the Bigger Question in All this is Why Does someone Want to Vape while Pumping their Gas?

 

[zoiDman]

And BTW - Yes, this Topic has been Discussed Many Times.

I think this was one of the Last Ones.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/law-e-cigarette/502253-vaping-gas-station.html

 

[Bunnykiller]

only thing I can imagine is that there is enuf gas fumes/oxygen ratio and have it enter the mod ( mech) and the switch is activated causing a small electrical arc on depressing the button ( make/break connection arc) the fumes in the mod could ignite thus igniting the fumes surrounding the mod and then everything else but to get that density of fumes into the mod and also in an enviroment with dense enuf fumes to promote flame travel to the fuel source.... you would have to be holding the mod next to the fill hole on the vehicle trying to make it go off.... it is probably more dangerous using a cell phone while filling up the tank....

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

But, but...... If you dropped the pv while pumping the gas, a spark could result and set a city block on fire with the resulting explosion. Why take a 1 in bazillion chance on that? Always safe and never sorry.

 

[wheelie]

I have had gas stations shut the pump off on me for talking on a cell phone because they could spark and cause a fire. So I bet vaping is out of the question. Might as well just light a candle beside you when pumping gas. LOL

Just though I would add. Some of you may vape and pump gas. As a licenced gas fitter, I would be stripped of my licence and lose my livelihood for been so stupid and I should have know better if fumes caught fire. LOL