Re-fueling your boat?? Beware

[rumy1]

As far as I know by law when a tanker is refuelling the servo storage tanks no-one is suppose to come with-in 15m of it. Which mean 99% of servo should shut down when a tanker is on their premises. Lost revenue .... I don't think any servo would do the right thing !!!

[Belly66]

I'm fairly sure that in New Zealand when a tanker is on site at a servo the site must close, that being the case then it wont be long until it happens here, which means poor bastards like me will never get off night shift.

[marco]

As far as I know by law when a tanker is refuelling the servo storage tanks no-one is suppose to come with-in 15m of it. Which mean 99% of servo should shut down when a tanker is on their premises. Lost revenue .... I don't think any servo would do the right thing !!!

eight meters in queensland

[marco]

Giday If you happen to be at a site when a tanker arrives take note of the first thing the driver does when he gets out of the truck, he will touch some part of the vehicle most times the tank to equalise the static charge between himself and the vehicle. Peter.

first thing i do is scratch my balls then if there is a charge it adds to the thrill

[stark]

Don't tankers run grounding straps? In the older cars (1940s-1950s) many had a grounding strap attached near the rear bumper (in those days the bumper was chrome plated steel). This discharged any static buildup so that you did not get a shock when getting out of the car.

Cheers
John

[mikeyh]

In response to Marco and Gunnabuild1,
I worked in servos for years as a mechanic and later pumping gas as a cashless uni student...the filters are ok at catching some of the crap but they dont catch water...(well they didnt a few years back) I couldnt count the number of times we had to pull out car fuel tanks, expensive fuel injection gear because the car had a belly full of water. Granted was an old petrol station but they all get water in their tanks I reckon. My advice is forget about the worry of static etc...if I see a tanker going into or leaving a servo...keep on driving and fill up elsewhere. Bad enough to break down in a car....

[Belly66]

I will keep that in mind tonight at work Marco, it will be the only tickle I get.

[bushonion]

This is really interesting stuff...and it's great to have some people who really know what they're talking about: impressive guys!

Problem is... I still don't know what to do about the fact that if I fill the 25l tanks on the ground I can't lift the bloody things back into the boat (4.5m fibreglass) - I am simply not strong enough or tall enough! And where do you get a grounding strap? What's it made of and look like?

[bayliner2855]

Well if you guys keep filling plastic boats with out an earth strap there will be more room on the ocean for every one else. This is a known problem. Static sparks will cause an explosion of vapor. Also the plastic gerry cans have static, always use a strap to the can. A piece of electric fence tap will do.

[disorderly]

first thing i do is scratch my balls then if there is a charge it adds to the thrill

Goodonya marco,
A man after my own heart.
I'll have to use the static electricity excuse next time my missus pulls me up on this exact exercise.

"Sorry honey, but I was only thinking of your safety"

Do you think she would believe me!

Scott

[Tailortaker]

On the same topic about fueling your boat, my local BP has just changed over all the std unleaded bowsers to 10% ethanol ulp with very little fanfare or actual signage on the bowser stack.

I dont know if it has happened elsewhere but it looks like some aren't going to put in seperate nozzles so if you do normally use unleaded take a quick look before pumping some in as I only just caught it before I started as I did use this servo to fill the boat all the time.

I noticed that the Bribie BP has done this the other day when putting deisel in the 4B which p**sed me off as I filled the boat there last week is it bad for a 2 stroke outboard?
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M62

[ashh]

I saw a sticker on an ethnol/unlead pump the otherday at a servo that said along the lines of 'do not use in 2stroke engines'...