WTD: clear plastic gas tank

Any out there?
Needed to fit on an old Suzuki enduro
Thanks
Greg

 

I don't know anything, but I wonder whether direct sunlight would break down
or otherwise affect gasoline at all.

Richard
05 VN1500 Classic Fi

 

How old is "old"? The Chaparral catalog shows Acerbis and IMS plastic
tanks going back to the mid-1980's...

 

Nice thought! No idea.

I *do* know that you can microwave petrol with no ill effects, though.

 

Please reassure us there was a paycheck involved in learning that.

 

Nope. The question arose on ukrm a year or two ago, because apparently
the molecules in petrol mean it doesn't get hot when m/waved[1]. So a
couple of resident lunatics, armed with an old microwave, a generator
for powering same, and a wide open space, tried it for real.

And it's true. It doesn't get hot. Strange.


[1] IANA chemist or fizzy cyst, but you know what I mean.

 

Well, as long as the extension cord is long enough....

I wonder what you get if you microwave gas with ethanol mixed in?

Later,

Charlie

 

should have put it in an aluminum pie pan ,but probably why it didnt
ignite is probably it got cooler ,you'll notice that if you ever got
gasoline spilled on your hand that it cooled your skin as it evaporated
,and another thing crazy about gasoline is in its full liquid form it
rarely ignites
the danger comes from the fumes ,a guy told me one time some buddies
tried to take a 5 gallon metal gas can (military style) years ago filled
it with gas and took it an empty field where him and his buddies shot at
it with rifles nothing happened ,so to say they were disappointed well
one of their dads showed up right then and asked what they were doing
they told him and he said well wait about an hour and leave it out there
and come back and try it then ,well they did and on the first shot the
can blew itself in half ,it seems that as the gas had leaked out it left
an empty space where the fumes filled it in
and when they shot into it the second time it ignited the fumes .
that is also why you cant start an engine when you flood it and why you
have to wait awhile before trying to start it again
I apologize if this was long winded

 

(badaztek) wrote in 3215.bay.webtv.net:

You are correct. Gas fumes burn, the liquid does not.

pierce

 

Wrong.

There's a chemical reason, a molecular reason. There's something out
there on the web about it but ICBA to google for it.

You are right about the fumes being the tricky bit, though.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Off the top of my head:

Microwave ovens emit a very select frequency of photons. Only molecules
that have modes of excitation that match this frequency are heated by
these "microwave" photons. IIRC, microwave ovens are tuned to
frequencies that heat water. It seems entirely possible that gasoline
wouldn't have any modes of excitation around those frequencies.

 

Eh, it was a SWAG. Apparently I was wrong.

 

<Googles for Olson errors>

<trips binary filter>

 

No photons emitted in a microwave.

The light bulb inside does but not the magnetron.

pierce

 

All electromagnetic radiation involves photons, including microwaves. Or
are you claiming that a microwave oven uses a neutron-beam or something?

 

Cites please!

pierce

 

I think you are correct by definition. However most people consider a
photon a particle or packet of light.

Wikidepia says this:

Photons are commonly associated with visible light, but this is actually
only a very limited part of the electromagnetic spectrum. All
electromagnetic radiation is quantized as photons: that is, the smallest
amount of electromagnetic radiation that can exist is one photon, whatever
its wavelength, frequency, energy, or momentum. Photons are fundamental
particles. They can be created and destroyed when interacting with other
particles, but are not known to decay on their own.

pierce

 

Yeah, but when you think about it, this whole wave/particle duality thing is
just a construct that we humans fabricated in order to visualize what is
occurring. It has nothing to do with the way things really are. It is even
possible that it is entirely wrong, but just happens to conveniently work
for our present level of understanding.

What happens when sentient computers design better computers that are able
to perceive such phenomena directly, without the use of imaginary tools,
which we humans rely upon to manipulate such things?

Ed Cregger

 

Ed,

Philosophy never was my strong suit. I will be happy when the develop the
direct to brain interface. One could go from functional idiot Phd in
minutes or less.

pierce

 

"Most" people? Did you take a poll?

Just admit you were mistaken and move on.