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: How not to siphon gasoline


JWagner
Jun 20th, 09, 10:51 AM
Or, how to burn down your shop. Using a shop vac turned out to be a really bad idea for this guy:


http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20090619/SHE0101/906190456/1062/SHE01/City-man-injured-in-garage-fire

czeto
Jun 20th, 09, 1:08 PM
I've gotten a mouth full more than once but never thought of using my shop vac. Say JWagner just love Tucson and almost purchased a house there but your summers are really hot. We stay at WestWardLook and like to eat at Janos.

bowtietim
Jun 20th, 09, 2:25 PM
I would rather get a mouth full of gas than turn the exhaust of my shop vac into a flame thrower. Gotta think things through.

BillsCamino
Jun 20th, 09, 8:19 PM
Who in the hell could possibly be THAT stupid. :sad:

I've got one of those clear hoses with the little brass check valve on one end...works great.
I have a friend that spend WEEKS in a hospital trying to get 110 oct race gas out of his lungs.

68_elky
Jun 21st, 09, 1:25 AM
Here's your sign:confused::sad:

FLASHED
Jun 21st, 09, 11:12 AM
Bill ,I thought Dana was smarter than that .

SPARK69
Jun 21st, 09, 11:13 AM
Dumbass

BillsCamino
Jun 21st, 09, 12:12 PM
Bill ,I thought Dana was smarter than that .

:noway:
Was actually the local Goodyear Service Mgr...with years of mechanical experience and a fellow drag racer. :(

Philip
Jun 21st, 09, 3:25 PM
I've gotten a mouth full more than once but never thought of using my shop vac. Say JWagner just love Tucson and almost purchased a house there but your summers are really hot. We stay at WestWardLook and like to eat at Janos.

Alex summer here is a lot shorter then the winters there. I lived in Denville until I was 18 years old and will take the heat over the cold any day.
I am not familiar with Janos, but will have to check it out.

jpete
Jun 29th, 09, 1:56 PM
Who in the hell could possibly be THAT stupid. :sad:

My dad is a member of MENSA(130+ IQ) and he did this when he was a teenager working at a gas station.

A woman came in and had lost her gas cap. The station owner stuffed a shop rag in the filler neck and said "Come back tomorrow and I'll have a new cap for you."

By the time she came back, the rag had sunk half way down the filler tube. So my dad, being the high IQ guy he is, noticed that the filler neck was roughly the same size as the shop vac hose.

In fact, it was a perfect fit! He slipped it over the tube, turned the vac on and was rewarded with the sound of the rag being sucked through the hose then almost immediately after a column of flame shooting out of the vac. l:)

Luckily, they were outside so no harm besides minor heart damage. :D

67RAT
Jun 29th, 09, 6:52 PM
Ok,gotta say this,i have done a many stupid thing,but this clown takes the grand prize!!!! Wth was he thinking,or not thinking????

IT SPARKS,IT GO BOOM........
Rth

Baltimore Bob2
Jun 29th, 09, 7:03 PM
In high school a guy I knew was siphoning gas out of his dads car at night. so in order to see how much gas was in the can, he pulled out his bic lighter and you can guess the rest. The car was totaled somehow he did'nt get hurt. true story of a high school stoner.

Highway Star
Jun 29th, 09, 7:08 PM
My dad is a member of MENSA(130+ IQ) and he did this when he was a teenager working at a gas station.

A woman came in and had lost her gas cap. The station owner stuffed a shop rag in the filler neck and said "Come back tomorrow and I'll have a new cap for you."

By the time she came back, the rag had sunk half way down the filler tube. So my dad, being the high IQ guy he is, noticed that the filler neck was roughly the same size as the shop vac hose.

In fact, it was a perfect fit! He slipped it over the tube, turned the vac on and was rewarded with the sound of the rag being sucked through the hose then almost immediately after a column of flame shooting out of the vac. l:)

Luckily, they were outside so no harm besides minor heart damage. :D

Jeff, THAT was funny dude.

furball8994
Jun 29th, 09, 7:16 PM
My dad is a member of MENSA(130+ IQ) and he did this when he was a teenager working at a gas station.

A woman came in and had lost her gas cap. The station owner stuffed a shop rag in the filler neck and said "Come back tomorrow and I'll have a new cap for you."

By the time she came back, the rag had sunk half way down the filler tube. So my dad, being the high IQ guy he is, noticed that the filler neck was roughly the same size as the shop vac hose.

In fact, it was a perfect fit! He slipped it over the tube, turned the vac on and was rewarded with the sound of the rag being sucked through the hose then almost immediately after a column of flame shooting out of the vac. l:)

Luckily, they were outside so no harm besides minor heart damage. :D

IQ does not always mean smart. :noway:
Even though I could join your dads club. Apparently I won't qualify because I know better that to try to vac up Highly flammable liquids...:D

jpete
Jun 29th, 09, 7:32 PM
IQ does not always mean smart. :noway:
Even though I could join your dads club. Apparently I won't qualify because I know better that to try to vac up Highly flammable liquids...:D

I can almost join the club. And have done more dumb things I care to remember and am still miraculously here to talk about them. :D

furball8994
Jun 29th, 09, 7:48 PM
I can almost join the club. And have done more dumb things I care to remember and am still miraculously here to talk about them. :D

At least you know which half of your father you take after.....:D JK.