bones
04-09-2007, 12:21 PM
Well i was just talking to another pilot from west of me yesterday and he told me how he had a fire on the top of his plastic 75 Lt seat tank.
The story started like normal, he was filling up to go home, from a plastic 20 lt Jerry can, also had a plastic Mr funnel in the top of his tank, all was well until he LIFTED the can up to see how much more fuel was needed, then next thing he knew there was a fire ball out the top of the funnel, and the fuel can, promptly threw the can over his shoulder, then reached around and quickly flipped the funnel the other direction, luckily there was still fuel in the funnel flitering through, so the fire had not spread to the main fuel tank, very shacken up and went into shock about 1 minute after, luckily there was other people around to put the spot fires out that started.
It became clear to him after talking to a few people that it was the fact that he LIFTED the fuel can away from the funnel causeing a spark to jump, and with all the fumes around a fire was unaviodable, just very lucky that there was still fuel in the funnel so that was as far as the flames went down.
Would not have been nice to sit there and watch his fairly new 912s and the rest of it burn to the ground.
So please be careful of this, and where possible use an earth cord. :nervious:
The story started like normal, he was filling up to go home, from a plastic 20 lt Jerry can, also had a plastic Mr funnel in the top of his tank, all was well until he LIFTED the can up to see how much more fuel was needed, then next thing he knew there was a fire ball out the top of the funnel, and the fuel can, promptly threw the can over his shoulder, then reached around and quickly flipped the funnel the other direction, luckily there was still fuel in the funnel flitering through, so the fire had not spread to the main fuel tank, very shacken up and went into shock about 1 minute after, luckily there was other people around to put the spot fires out that started.
It became clear to him after talking to a few people that it was the fact that he LIFTED the fuel can away from the funnel causeing a spark to jump, and with all the fumes around a fire was unaviodable, just very lucky that there was still fuel in the funnel so that was as far as the flames went down.
Would not have been nice to sit there and watch his fairly new 912s and the rest of it burn to the ground.
So please be careful of this, and where possible use an earth cord. :nervious: