[Rhodes22-list] Gas fumes

[Steve Alm]

MJM,
No need to sugar-coat it for us.  How do you really feel?
Slim

On 7/29/03 1:00 PM, "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:

> ok we will go with gas in the lazzerett.
> 
> Lets start with a couple of simple images.
> 
> Kaboom, fire ball, fuel-air-explosion, daisy cutter, MOAB, people diving into
> the water burning alive, walking dead men from burned
> lungs, backend flash hanging from limbs, fiberglass spinal impaled into
> children,  limbless bodies being fished from the water,
> close casket funnels were a family is being interned. People in burn wards
> hoping for death with doctor knowing it will come in 20
> days. The smell of charted flesh lingering in the air. The sight of a boat
> burnt to the waterline.  Should I keep going? What about
> a tomb stone inscribe with "he knew better, look were he is now".
> 
> 1)all tanks leak,
> 2)all tank overflow when fill.
> 3)fuel line connectors come off.
> 4)counting on wind, think hot sunny no wind days.
> 5)IIRC opening below GC regs, need power blower)
> 5)spillage get into the foam
> 6)leakage getts into the cabin
> 7)lots of air space for fuel-air-explosion(cabin, under cockpit and lazzerett)
> sticks of dynamite equ.
> 8)rolling about thing can puncher it.
> 9)speckers, bilge pumps, outboard wireing, 12 sockets, electorices, running
> light wires, etc can set it off.
> 10)it hidden, you never see the problem.
> 
> That me getting started, any one else have a comment.
> 
> MJM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net>
> To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:25 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Gas fumes
> 
> 
>> 
>> Michael,
>> If he uses an unvented gas tank how are there any fumes in the
>> lazzerett?  My lazzerett opens under the seats so that it is really
>> vented.  Does the lazzerett in question have air access under the seats?
>> Does he need a vent on the rail (highest point)?
>>        Ed K
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Michael Meltzer
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:51 PM
>> To: johntonjes at earthlink.net; The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Engines...again.
>> 
>> It is getting time for a new subject, at least for this quarter, what
>> about the difficulty of sex while single handing, or the
>> average man takes only 1.5 minutes, or how many ways can a port leak,
>> "stupid boat ticks", even blowing up a boat from gas fumes in
>> the lasserret.
>> 
>> MJM
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Tonjes" <johntonjes at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Rhodes org. owners list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:40 PM
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Engines...again.
>> 
>> 
>>> Roger,
>>> OK, so we now know that the four stroke engines do not have a
>> catalytic converter, which makes them already not very
>> environmentally friendly. Catalytic converters were put on vehicles to
>> reduce the effects of acid rain which is a chemical reaction
>> involving the exhausted gases, moisture and sunlight and returns the
>> moisture as acid rain and is also the major cause of smog.
>>> If my college chemistry isn't failing me, the unburned hydrocarbons
>> emitted from 2 stroke engines, although entering the water
>> supply, are simply evaporated by the sunlight in a matter of days. Kind
>> of what happens with an oil slick from a oil tanker that has
>> run aground and broke open. However, I understand that the government
>> mandated additives in the gasoline stay behind. Seems to me
>> you eliminate the additives from the gasoline and it's a toss up as to
>> which engine pollutes more.
>>> 
>>> Rummy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> John Tonjes
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