Does anyone have...

[Toxic]

Does anyone have the video clip of the guy filling a jerry can in the back of his truck that catches fire? This is the one where static electricity built up and caused the fire. I need it for a presentation.

Thanks.

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For anyone who may not know what I'm talking about... The plastic bedliner will isolate the jerry can and prevent static from discharging to ground. The action of the fuel flowing through the hose and into the container causes a static charge. When it discharges it causes a spark an can ignite the gas vapours.

[iamvff]

For anyone who may not know what I'm talking about... The plastic bedliner will isolate the jerry can and prevent static from discharging to ground. The action of the fuel flowing through the hose and into the container causes a static charge. When it discharges it causes a spark an can ignite the gas vapours.
Hey Tox,
I must correct you. You have either worded this wrong or misunderstand! A plastic bedliner does not isolate the jerry can, in fact the plastic bedliner creates static as the jerry can slides across it...plastic on plastic. I am not trying to prove you wrong, just that this is actually very real, and quite dangerous. I sell bedliners at my shop, and the warning label is on each and every one of them about the use of jerry cans. I strongly promote to my customers to buy a rubber matt for their bedliner, inorder to rectify this very problem! The jerry can gets charges up from sliding back and forth on the bedliner, and then when the gas nozzle touches the jerry can, it grounds out the charge and creates a spark....thus....BOOM! Hope this helps, feel free to comment.

iamvff

[FireEMTGuy]

Interesting... thanks!

[Scuba]

You just looking for nasty footage from static caused explosion?

I have footage from a helicopter in europe from a huge tanker fire....just as it's exploding.

Drop me a PM with yoru email address and I'll send it to you.

[Toxic]

Hey Tox,
You have either worded this wrong or misunderstand! ... feel free to comment.

iamvff

You're right but I think the problem is two fold. Although I think what you described is a lot more common. I quickly wrote that second paragraph as an after thought to the first.

You can still generate a charge from the fuel moving through he hose. Even with a steel jerry can in a bare truck bed the charge doesn't actually ground itself because the truck is on rubber wheels. It's the reason fuel trucks bond and ground at bulk filling sites.

You are absolutely right on the plastic on plastic thing building a charge. I actually had that label on my bedliner too.