i just use a 5g plastic gas can to store my used oil. i wrote 'OIL' on it to prevent confusion.
Don't port gas in crystal clear plastic...5G water jugs
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You know, there are supposed to be natural gas shortages this winter as well. So I filled about 50 lawn size garbage bags with natural gas and sealed the opening real tight with tie wraps and a little "liquid electric tape". They are now floating up by my ceiling in the basement.
Now I just have to figure how to get the gas back in the pipe in the event of a natural gas supply interruption.
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dude!
Well, I recovered about 3 1/2 gallons out of 4 1/2 gallons. Put into plastic milk jugs. I think most went into the car upholstry. I'm not necessarily hoarding, I have a mower and a dirt bike to fuel. What's up with not being able to buy an approved container? Anyway, my post was intended as a public service message, just don't use the crystal clear plastic as far as I am concerned. I'm totally willing to leave a milk jug full out gas in our cement bunker. Any bets on how long it'll last? Disaster averted.
Others are hoarding too
Oh my. I think that General Honore would have something to say here...
looking back over the yrs to the 1st gas crisis in '74. My wife and I left Marshvegas bound for Daytona FL in out 66 bug. I started thre trip with the 10gallon tank topped off, a five gallon plastic gas can, and 5 1 gallon milk jugs all stashed in the trunk. Can you say Bomb??. Nothing happened, I dumped the milk jugs into the tank by Hartford and the gas can later on. I didnt gas up until DC.
On the trip home, we used the gas can, topping it off in GA. It saved us from running out of gas around Richmond and having to stop for the night. But in my later yrs, it gives me goose flesh just thinking about those milk jugs.
On the trip home, we used the gas can, topping it off in GA. It saved us from running out of gas around Richmond and having to stop for the night. But in my later yrs, it gives me goose flesh just thinking about those milk jugs.
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so the upholstery of the car has a gallon of gas vaporizing out it? The potential for disaster is still there. I would disconnect the battery and push that bomb out of harms way. Leave the doors open and let it dry out completely for a few days.
What kind of plastic are these milk jugs made of?
what you also need to realize is that the polyester/polyolefin materials of most car upolstery is affected by gasoline. It will most likely take on a "dry-rot" condition much quicker than normal now. Colors are usually affected. Not sure about the foam cushion material.
both types are polyethylene. clear plastic soda bottles are PET. Milk jugs are HDPE. both are affected by gasoline and oil, altho it appears to take oil quite awhile to degrade HDPE, perhaps a few months. (based on my experience!)
both types are polyethylene. clear plastic soda bottles are PET. Milk jugs are HDPE. both are affected by gasoline and oil, altho it appears to take oil quite awhile to degrade HDPE, perhaps a few months. (based on my experience!)
*****!! That was great!quote:
Originally posted by k1xv:
You know, there are supposed to be natural gas shortages this winter as well. So I filled about 50 lawn size garbage bags with natural gas and sealed the opening real tight with tie wraps and a little "liquid electric tape". They are now floating up by my ceiling in the basement.
Now I just have to figure how to get the gas back in the pipe in the event of a natural gas supply interruption.
Both high and low density poly ethylene are permeable to natural gas, gasoline, and diesel. You may have even seen jugs that set around for a while unopened, being slowly collapsed as the contents diffuse out. The thinner the container, the faster it diffuses out. No ventilation could result in kaboom.
PE gas tanks are treated or coated to prevent it. I don't know if the approved gas cans are or not.
PE gas tanks are treated or coated to prevent it. I don't know if the approved gas cans are or not.
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One briefly popular method was the "user-compressor" modality of uncompressed natural gas infusion. This method utilizes the natural compression abilities of the user's lungs to create the differential needed for use.
This was ulitmately abandoned for the more aethestically pleasing method of rigging a series of small taps on the line and installing balloons to "soak up" available gas supplies ..and automatically compensating for sags in the line pressure that the point of service.
This problem might solve itself?
80's era Audi wiring + 1 gallon of gas...
I just hope he doesn't go down for arson!
80's era Audi wiring + 1 gallon of gas...
I just hope he doesn't go down for arson!
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