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Given that the tank was filled with water, and then fogged with CO2 such that it was making the fuel tank look like a witches cauldron, you'll understand if I mention you might have been being a bit overcautious?
Yeah, I'm a bit (over)cautious. I've witnessed a fuel tank explosion once in my life. I don't care to see it again. I'm OK with being called "overcautious" when you get only one chance to get it right. Think about: once the vacuum was turned on, the CO2 inside would be sucked away, eliminating the inert atmosphere. You know, the one you just created to help prevent the "BOOM"!
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But, THAT would be an interesting experiment: sucking fuel vapors into a vaccuum cleaner, to see if you could set it on fire. who wants to see?
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Ooh!!! Ooh!!! ME!!! ME!!! Let ME do it!!!!
JD, this is your task for the day. Come back and report, if your capable of doing so afterwards. Video or it didn't happen!
OK - Confession time - As a kid, I played with fire. Didn't we all? Did you know, You can throw lit matches into an open coffee can of gasoline. If you get the conditions right, the match will extinguish itself in the gasoline without lighting the vapors. But conditions have to be right. I didn't succeed all of the time. And for all you little experimenters out there in cyberspace, you shouldn't try to put out the flames by blowing on it, especially with someone on the opposite side trying to do the same. Don't ask how I know.
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