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Originally Posted by Lawson Cox
A little off topic, but close enough. I had a split in the plastic gas tank on my Ranger pickup. Knowing it takes a spark or flame to ignite gas or fumes, I crawled under the truck with an old Western Electric electric soldering iron, real hot, and melted the plastic enough to fuse the leak shut. Still holding 10 years later.
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Smooth move, Counselor! Did it not occur to you that there MIGHT be some SPARKS involved to make that "ELECTRIC" soldering iron "real hot"? Even more-so if there happens to be a malfunction in the soldering iron's inner workings!
And, did you GROUND the truck before you started that project, just to preclude any stray STATIC electrical discharge?
Coop
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