Re: Repeatedly Running On A Low Tank?

on 6/5/2008 7:06 AM C. E. White said the following:

Yes, they are easier and safer than metal when drilling holes in the tank to steal gas, as has been happening lately. Drilling into the tank with cordless drills won't cause a spark which may result in injury or death to the thieves, and thereby limiting the amount of damages you may have to pay for injuring the thief from other reasons, like dropping the drill on their face.

I had a 76 Datsun 280 ZX and it had a metal tank. AND my son started adding a fuel system cleaner with every fill up we he was driving it during his college years, we ( make that I ) wound up having to remove the tank and backwash that filter in the tank because it clogged when the loosened derbies in the tank came loose. WE ( make that I ) wound up finally having to have the tank cleaned and sealed to get it right. That car was in the family over 20 years before I finally sold it and it was still running great.

Take your cordless drill into a completely darkened room and hit the trigger, and tell me there isn't a spark! You still have a rotor, a stator and brushes, and any time you have those, you can generate a spark.

Maybe a few will start blowing these bastards to hell...

I find it ironic that part of the solution to conserving petroleum uses products made from petroleum (plastics).

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

Bill Putney wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

Of course you know plastics are made from the garbage that remains once all the useful stuff has been distilled from a barrel of crude... This garbage was priorly dumped as useless before scientists learned how to play with the molecules.