>>> So, when you use these pumps that latch "on"

> The latches have been outlawed here in OZ for quite a number of years
> now ( I don't think I have seen one in about 10 years now), we have
> to hold the lever in or, as much as I disagree with the safety aspect,
> I have seen a small piece of perspex cut to just the right size to
> jam it in the open position.

For a while, some stations here in the western US didn't have
the latch mechanism on the pump nozzle.  After a while, sanity
prevailed and the latches returned.

Anyway, if the pump handle doesn't have a latch mechanism, the
vehicle's gas cap can frequently be used, in one orientation or
another, to hold the handle in the "latched on" position (and
the automatic flow shut-off still works just fine).  Whish is
even simpler than carrying around a pre-cut piece of anything. :-)

                                                Lee Jones

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