Jim_H

Scott,
I know of a good used tank if that is the route you want to go.

heinrich

Emotions and defensive responses aside. If you say, as you do, that you had VAPOURS on a cloth and no more ... and you left that cloth under that GT ... and you went inside for a phone call ... and your refrigerator then set fire to that cloth with no more than vapours ... then I say, having any sort of electrical device anywhere near your gasoline fumes is a BAD IDEA.

hacker-pschorr

But the fan is blowing the vapours away from the electrical motor. Unless you are stupid enough to have the vapors blow through the fan, than you deserve to have your house burn down.

Jim_H

You can say what you want, I deal in reality. Before you mislead anyone any further or make opinions based on that which know little about, think about it. What are you accomplishing?
Your obsession with being the know everything, am everything of the 928 world is harmless. Your repeated remarks about my fire are idiotic, at best. Stating a fan at ground level is a bad idea is just plain stupid. "If" a fan was running in my garage the fire would have never happened. Can you comprehend that. The vapors would not have had the chance to consolidate and "creep" around and be cross ignited by an electrical source. Ask your Insurance agent, if you have one. I had told myself I wouldn't respond to your infantile post directed at me anymore but when I see you giving ignorant informaton about a subject that has become important to me to someone, I feel I don't have any choice.

As I recall your whole obsession with me and my posts and the end of our friendship started because I wouldn't swear off any other car as a pile of crap except the 928. Little did I know what a good thing that was.

Grow up.

heinrich

I don't seem to be able to find the post now, but didn't someone say that in Government chemical storage facilities, there aren't any electrical devices anywhere? From what I understand about fans, they need to get their intake somewhere, and if any vapours happen to have recirculated, that seems like a potential problem to me. Either way, you're welcome to turn the old fan on next time you work on your gas tank ..... as for me, if I ever did work on it (unlikely), you can be sure it would be outside, and not near a fan or anything electrical

heinrich

Heck, airplane mechanics who work inside plane tanks use teflon tools for fear that any metal-to-metal contact might spark an explosion. Wouldn't that preclude an electrical fan, with its several metal parts? I've seen many fans and many of them have a little blue spark if you look in darkness.....

Jim_H

Scott M.

All may not be lost.

Spoke w/ the PO and he filed a claim w/ the stereo shops insurance co. Looks like they may make things right.

Hold your breath.

Jim_H

Scott,

Should have info for you tomorrow.

heinrich

Jim that was quite a funny reply

Jim_H

My reply to Scott is based on a price I am supposed to get for him, if that is what you are referring to?? Prolly should of PM'd him to keep the local chatty cathy at bay.

SharkSkin

If you can set up a cross-draft with a fan, you can prevent the vapors from ever building up to a concentration that will support combustion.

If, OTOH, you walk into a garage that reeks of volatiles, don't turn on a light or fan, start by opening all doors and windows. Don't use the garage door opener, open it manually.

Jim_H

Pretty simple isn't it.

heinrich

Jim the Troll wrote:
"My reply to Scott is based on a price I am supposed to get for him, if that is what you are referring to?? Prolly should of PM'd him to keep the local chatty cathy at bay."

Not what I meant. I meant your headbanging little icon was funny.

Jim_H

"Jim the Troll wrote:"

whatever-you win, I guess