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Evidently he failed to read the notice about NO TALKING ON THE CELL PHONE OR SMOKING NEAR THE PUMP.


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A cigarette will not ignite gas or its vapors.
You can toss a lit cigarrette into a bucket of gas and it will go out.
A HOT enough spark or flame will ignite gasoline or its vapors.
A 20,000 volt spark off an ignition wire will do the trick. wink
A 10,000 volt static spark off of nylon clothing will too.


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The things they did back then where crazy smile


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IS THAT YOU IN THE PICTURE? ....LOL


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What about selling kerosene out of the "EAT" They even have REAl Coffee. I'm guessing the cook is sticken her head out of the kitchen window.


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I wonder if the dog in the picture is dead............

Roger Loupias #166907 Sat Dec 26 2009 03:04 PM
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Dang, and I had my mouth all set for some artificial coffee!!!


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When we used to 'stick' the tanks at nite sometimes the boss would come out with a lit cigar in his mouth. He would drop the cigar onto the the ground around the fill tube just to get a rise out of us.

On another note, we used to tell the newbies whenever they couldn't get a locked gas cap off in the winter to take a lighter to it.

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There was an old guy in my town that ran the Phillips station. When my mom pulled in he would pump her gas with a lit pipe in his mouth. He exhaled through the pipe causing hot embers of tobacco to fly out of the pipe and fall to the ground. No he didn't die in an explosion at he station. He did take his old wrecker ever year on his birthday and tie the cable to a tree beside the station. After tightening the cable he would walk the cable and not fall off. He did this well into his late 70's.

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Love these old pictures. Safety can be a pain in the rear but it does save lives. I think of my friend's Grandpa and his missing fingers. There was a time when "you wern't a man until you lost a finger or two". With some of the safety features now you have to really work at getting hurt.
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"With some of the safety features now you have to really work at getting hurt."well "some" guys do!! grin wink

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Never got hurt @ home, only @ work.

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I don't know if you can drop a lit cigarette in a can of gasoline or not but I do know in the old Standard Station garage I worked in in high school one of the mechanics flicked a lit cigarette under a pickup truck they were draining gasoline out of and it burned the truck and singed the rafters in the garage. Its that triangle they talked about in safety class fuel, oxygen and a heat source. In the bucket there is not enough oxygen to creat ignition

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Still a lot of people these days, that will walk right by my No Smoking cones I set out while I am unloading, with a cigarette in their mouth. I learned a long time ago to not ask them to put it out. They would throw it down where I was unloading, I just ask them to CARRY it out of the area.
Gas vapors are heavier than air and "fall" to the ground.

Had an old gas hauler tell me of a station he delivered to years ago, (before the days of Stage 1 or 2 Vapor Recovery). He pulled in and started unloading. The vent pipes for the tanks were behind the station. There were two kids out back smoking. Caught the vapors on fire and burned the station down. Kids survived, but badly burned.

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[quote=67Chev4X4]I don't know if you can drop a lit cigarette in a can of gasoline or not but I do know in the old Standard Station garage I worked in in high school one of the mechanics flicked a lit cigarette under a pickup truck they were draining gasoline out of and it burned the truck and singed the rafters in the garage. Its that triangle they talked about in safety class fuel, oxygen and a heat source. In the bucket there is not enough oxygen to creat ignition [/quote

....pretty close. I think you have to have an air/fuel ratio of somewhere between 15-21%, give or take a little, to have combustion. It'd be my guess that the ciggy into the bucket and the ratio is too high.

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