I really don't understand the static electricity thing. I have filled old Farmalls for years our of 5 gallon plastic cans. Ever since farm delivery started costing more without road tax than the local stations charged with road tax. I can get the road tax back on my tax return. You can't ground plastic, and the flow of fuel is so slow it would be surprising if the mechanism were in place to develop a static charge. In large fuel tanks (2,000,000 gallons and more) we limit filling to 3 ft per second coming out of the fill pipe until the fluid is at least a foot or more over the fill nozzle. This is for gasoline and diesel. And this requirement came about after a suspicion of static electricity caused a fire. I fill my tractors by hand right next to and almost under the can. I really don't want to do that if there is a danger but after thirty years, it certainly feels safe.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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