>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lee Jones [mailto:lee@FRUMBLE.CLAREMONT.EDU]
>Sent: 18 February 2004 09:13
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [OT] Static and petrol vapours
>
>
>>>> 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. :-)

I have to admitt that I really can't see why the latch is required, is it
really that much of a hardship to hold the trigger in for the few minutes it
takes to fill a tank?  Or am I missing something else that's different
outside that UK?

Mike




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