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Re: 'Water in fuel' incident.

Subject: Re: 'Water in fuel' incident.
From: John O'Connor <jpoc@ulm.netsurf.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:47:11
Graham noted and asked:

> Incidentally millions of motorists a day fill up at petrol stations without
> any earthing lines. Has anyone heard of a flashover ?

Indeed yes. One UK mfr had to perform a product recall to modify the
fuel nozzel grounding system. That was about 4 years ago IIRC and the
recall was because there were some real incidents.

John



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