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| Re: Useful info [message #155923 is a reply to message #155880] |
Sun, 08 January 2012 11:47   |
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John Heslinga
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Registered: February 2011
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Harry:
I'm assuming you are getting one zap from static electricity and you are not plugged into Power when you are filling up. Get one of those straps that bolt to the frame and touch the ground when you stop moving. That will drain the static from the vehicle and avoid that zap. In this case you are the ground strap when you have the nozzle in one hand and you touch the body of the bus. If you touched the nozzle to the bus body before you, there can be a spark jumping from th nozzle to the body. That spark is enough to ignite some of the residual fuel around the fuel filler nozzle and cause some excitement. The fuel nozzle is grounded to discharge the static of the flowing fuel. Because your bus obviously stores that static, Make sure the nozzle is always touching the vehicle filler to ensure you get no sparks while you have fuel flowing.
John and Cathie Heslinga
1974 Canyonlands 260
455, Manny tranny and 1 ton, 3:70 LS,
Red Seal Journeyman, DTE, BEd. MEd.
Edmonton, Alberta
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| Re: Useful info [message #155925 is a reply to message #155923] |
Sun, 08 January 2012 11:50 |
Bob de Kruyff
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Location: Chandler, AZ
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| John Heslinga wrote on Sun, 08 January 2012 10:47 |
Harry:
I'm assuming you are getting one zap from static electricity and you are not plugged into Power when you are filling up. Get one of those straps that bolt to the frame and touch the ground when you stop moving. That will drain the static from the vehicle and avoid that zap. In this case you are the ground strap when you have the nozzle in one hand and you touch the body of the bus. If you touched the nozzle to the bus body before you, there can be a spark jumping from th nozzle to the body. That spark is enough to ignite some of the residual fuel around the fuel filler nozzle and cause some excitement. The fuel nozzle is grounded to discharge the static of the flowing fuel. Because your bus obviously stores that static, Make sure the nozzle is always touching the vehicle filler to ensure you get no sparks while you have fuel flowing.
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I was assuming the shock was to his pocket book but maybe not.
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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