Quote Originally Posted by 1project2many View Post
All of it. Ever wonder why an electric fuel pump, essentially an electric motor, placed into a tank full of fuel doesn't cause the tank to explode?
Gasoline in liquid form is not flammable. The fumes that come of it are when mixed with air.

Quote Originally Posted by ericjon262 View Post
mixture is too rich. you can put a cig out in a gas tank if you want(please don't).
High school auto shop our teacher had a little cabinet and placed a small can/cap of gasoline in there the night before. The next morning everyone was asked to be quite and no banging. We had a bet. He/teacher said gasoline is not flammable, we students knowing it is and most of us have caused many fires as well so we had proof disagreed. Loosers would be acid cleaning the floors in shop during lunch... This was going to be great watching him scrub floors!

So he lights a match with a arm length welding glove and other protection on, so we were also going to get to watch our teacher blow up! Cool bonus but we all liked him! He put the match out in the gasoline!

Cool! But we disagreed and said it must not be gasoline? He assured us it is gasoline and would prove it, he tapped the shelf a few times with his magic wrench and asked if we would like to smell? Dam, that's gas? So on a long stick he had a lit match and got it close and POOF, the fire we are all used to!

This was the beginning of our lessons of Air Fuel Ratios... he did buy pizza as we scrubbed floors during lunch!