You mean like a full tank? You know your Gas and Electric weld gas
pipes full of gas, that's only way they may repair a leak. It is
possible to weld a full gasoline tank, too. But not me.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
> How about a real-world test, flip a lit match into the filler of a "full"
> gas tank?
>
> During the SR-71 program, when the planes were parked, they would leak fuel
> like a sieve, because the wing tanks weren't internally lined...the skin of
> the aircraft was the tank, and the fuel leaked through the expansion joints.
> At cruising speed, the expansion due to heat of the skin would close up the
> joints. If memory serves, the fuel was JP-7.
>
> The engines used starting carts with Chevy or Buick big-block V8's to spin
> the turbines up to starting speed. One day, one of the start cart engines
> caught fire in the hangar, and a crewman simply broomed a big puddle of JP-7
> over to the engine to put the flames out.
>
> Try that with gasoline.