Thread: [Update] Fuel tanker drivers vote to strike
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Old 28-03-2012, 20:22   #75
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Re: [Update] Fuel tanker drivers vote to strike
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Originally Posted by Hom3r View Post
This is 100% false, mythbuster did this they did all kind of damage to get the phone to make a spark and nada. Enter one staticly charged nylon shell suit then boom.
I also saw the mythbusters episode. However any electrical equipment that is not intrinsically safe has the potential to cause a spark, although this would usually be down to faulty equipment, and not a spark from the ariel, as they were trying to replicate. And then all it would need is for there to be the correct concentration of air and fuel vapours.

Just for your information, it is the area of about 1m radius around the nozzle when a car is being filled, that is within the most ideal range of flamability.
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