Fuel Dispensing Pump Mobile Phone Safety Alert.

[Junkman]

I will do one better....... I won't post.

 

[PhilNH5]

Junkman,
I appreciate your posts intended to enlighten us. If it turns out to be less then helpful someone is sure to jump in and tell you as in this thread. Some are just more diplomatic than others.

Phil

 

[fishman]

Now come on! At least 3/4 of Junkman's post is about static electricity. And both of the reports debunking the mobile phone ignition clearly state that static electricity is a serious threat. So not all of his post was lame and wrong. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

And besides, most everyone knows how sensitive Junkman is to criticism. Best to use it lightly around him or he'll go pout for a week. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Now come on! At least 3/4 of Junkman's post is about static electricity. And both of the reports debunking the mobile phone ignition clearly state that static electricity is a serious threat. So not all of his post was lame and wrong. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

And besides, most everyone knows how sensitive Junkman is to criticism. Best to use it lightly around him or he'll go pout for a week. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )</font>

Better make that 99 44/100% if you want to be accurate. You people take everything that I type soo seriously. Got to go now, my cell phone is ringing and I am fueling the JD and there is a Kioti in line waiting.

 

[slowrev]

Yes you are right, Mythbusters had no luck. They thought it might be static electricity from getting in and out of the car.

 

[BobReeves]

Didn't see the show, wonder if the cell phone they were playing with had the vibrating option.

The vibrator is a small DC motor with a counterbalance so when it spins it vibrates. These are cheap motors with brushes that can/will produce sparks.

 

[polecat]

I wonder why all the airport ground their planes before refueling......have u ever seen the static that comes from the whirring of helicopter blades....many a misty morning on a wood pole transmission line spent ....you while climbing the poles can literally draw an arc 1/4 to 1/2 an inch from the down ground to your fingernails....we used to do it for kicks...see who could take the longest..the higher you get the longer the arc...don't know if the myth busters could could even git enuff static going to tickle their buddies ears !!!!!!!!!!! try walking up and stickin a stun gun next to your fill pipe!!! how bout the little tickle that u can get froma 9 volt...how much static does it take!!! I don't know !!! but u can bet your a$$ i won't be talkin on my cell anymore while fuelin...did it all the time !!!!AND NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif...would rather fall 20' off a buildin again like i did sunday than be blown to smitherines by a gas explosion....Thanks junkster!!!!
Do what my mom always told me...never let anyone change the person you were brought up to be!! THat is unless you were brought to be a whiner and a complainer about someone who's taking their valuable time to try to help others!!! Then id want to change!!!!
I'd rather be safe that sorry!!!! thanx agin junkman /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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TODD

P.S. LOOKEE THERE junkman made it almost all the way thru without "SCREAMIN" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ....They thought it might be static electricity from getting in and out of the car.)</font>

....and it's usually women that this happens to.
They start to fuel the vehicle and then go back into it to retrieve their purse, fail to touch the vehicle again to discharge the static, and then touch the filler nozzle.

Ever notice how some people are leaning on their vehicle when fueling?? They are grounding themselves.

I always touch the steel part of the door jam when exiting the vehicle I am riding in, whether I'm driving or just a passenger, to discharge. G

 

[markct]

on the subject of these sorta myths that go around in email chainletters, anyone gotten the one about not using cruise control when its raining, seems awfull silly to me, they say that if the tires lose traction they will spin faster and make the problem worst, well that can happen when driving with your foot on the gas too, seems like it would be even less likely when cruise control was on since it acts like a governor and would keep the wheels at a constant speed regardless of weather they had traction or not. it seems these days all it takes to make people believe this stuff is to put it in an email and say that it originaly came from mr so and so head of whatever

 

[SnowRidge]

There is a significant danger from static caused sparks that applies strongly to this forum. Since no one has mentioned it, I thought I'd bring it up. It is the filling of gas cans when they are sitting in the bed of a pickup truck equipped with either bed liner or bed mat.

Static charges build up from the rush of fuel into the can. Since the mat or liner insulates the can from the truck's frame, the charge cannot bleed off, and a spark can be drawn between the can and the nozzle, or the can and a person standing on the ground or touching the vehicle. Placing the cans on the ground will prevent this.

Some stations have signs posted that warn of this danger; some don't.

SnowRidge