Hi Lee, I certainly didn't mean to attack you or anyone else with my reply.? Sorry if you were offended.
You said to "bring on the disagreements".? But my previous email?didn't directly address your email or what you said in it. I provided what I refer to as "hard data" to make a point.? That point is that pouring AvGas into a plane from plastic containers is more dangerous than pouring AvGas into?a plane from metal containers.? That is a fact.? If you disagree, then that's cool with me.? If you disagree and you have?data to prove your position, then quite seriously, I would be very interested in seeing it.? I made a smart aleck?remark at the end of my prior email by saying that maybe the people who wrote that document didn't know what they were talking about.? That's just my sarcastic personality and my own sense of humor, warped though it may be.??Sorry if you took that as a personal?attack.? The fact is that AvGas moving in contact with a plastic surface generates static electricity.? There doesn't have to be a charge there to begin with. So contrary to what some may think,?putting the plastic can on the ground, or touching the plastic can to the airplane before fueling does not?mitigate?the hazard.? ? The fact is that plastic gas cans, unless they are manufactured from special conductive plastic, cannot be reliably grounded with a jumper wire.??Or to be more accurate, the average aircraft owner (me included) is not?capable of effectively grounding a non-conductive plastic gas can.? Most?plastics are not good conductors, and the typical cheap plastic?gas cans?don't have any conductivity specs provided with them.??? I do agree with your statement:??"Plastic fuel containers are major storage units of static electricity and can kill you very quickly."? But I would add that they not only store static electricity, they actually generate it when fuel is poured into or out of them. I also agree with your statement: "I will say that unless you are keenly aware of how to properly connect a static discharge wire to your plastic container, DON'T USE A PLASTIC CONTAINER TO FUEL OR REFUEL ANYTHING." There are three plastic gas cans out in my hangar that I previously?used?for 100LL AvGas.? Then we had this whole discussion about plastic gas cans and static electricity several months ago.? That prompted me to do some research, and based on what I learned,?I decided to quit using plastic?gas cans around the airplane.? The information is out there for the reading. Best Regards, Wayne DelRossi Alon N5618F ? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 4:53 pm Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Grounding while fueling - Plastic Containers Wayne, I really appreciate you and your method of turning a reply into an attack.? I don't advocate the use of plastic, but knowing that some will, would like to impart info for them to use which might save their lives.? There are some who do, and I am sure you never have and would never violate any law whatsoever pertaining to anything, speeding, running red lights & stop signs etc.? So I know the laws, rules, and regulations are safe in your hands. Lee ____________________________________________________________ Criminal Lawyers - Click here.
