Fire!

[BABALU]

I have a zinc eye bolt anchored in the concrete floor , I use it to attach a tie down strap to pull the tail down and check my nose wheel . Is it fesible to ground the plane to that bolt if need be?

[Infidel]

Originally Posted by simpkinsona

Would you mind posting a calendar with where you'll be for the rest of the year?

You owe me an IPad cleaning! Lol!!!!

[Kyle Boatright]

Originally Posted by BABALU

I have a zinc eye bolt anchored in the concrete floor , I use it to attach a tie down strap to pull the tail down and check my nose wheel . Is it fesible to ground the plane to that bolt if need be?

A ground point should be a copper rod driven several feet into the soil. I would imagine an eye bolt drilled into the concrete floor would be a very poor conductor. If you don't want to drill a hole and drive a 4' copper rod, a better solution would probably be to ground to a piece of steel hangar structure, since the hangar itself is <probably> well grounded.

[aerhed]

Imagine a day when your entire airframe is a solid state structural battery that can't ignite and just has a plug in motor with no wire connections to fail. The stories are gonna get so boring.

[diamond]

Originally Posted by simpkinsona

Would you mind posting a calendar with where you'll be for the rest of the year?

You might as well send me some new underbritches while your at it. size 34.

[Neal@F14]

Gasoline flowing thru a nonconductive plastic or rubber fuel line/funnel/whatever makes a pretty darn good Van de Graaff generator. Ever wonder why teflon fuel hose has a conductive carbon liner inside?

[BABALU]

Originally Posted by Kyle Boatright

A ground point should be a copper rod driven several feet into the soil. I would imagine an eye bolt drilled into the concrete floor would be a very poor conductor. If you don't want to drill a hole and drive a 4' copper rod, a better solution would probably be to ground to a piece of steel hangar structure, since the hangar itself is <probably> well grounded.

Good point. I therefore Delete stupid question.

[humptybump]

Fuel fires are dangerous but they are not the only type of fires that occur in airplanes.

Electrical fires can occur for many reasons including chafed insulation causing a short; improper gauge wire; old / stuck breaker; dirt in a reostat; critters chewing on wires; failed voltage regulator; yada yada

Toxic fumes and smoke can put an end to your day even if the heat of the fire doesn't.

[DanH]

Originally Posted by BillL

http://www.shimadzu.com/an/hplc/supp.../14/14lab.html
This might help.

Great link Bill.

Originally Posted by Champ

Is it OK to use a plastic fuel container if you run a lead into it?

Sure hope so!

Seriously, the plastic container is in contact with the metal funnel, the fuel in the container, and the submerged wire, and all are electrically common.

If you used a metal container could you just clip the funnel lead to it without the wire into the bottom?

Yes, but as noted in the page Bill linked, a metal can may have a liner or other interior coating. I would always use the submerged wire.

What gauge wire works?

Mine is ordinary stranded lamp cord.

[wirejock]

Originally Posted by DanH

(snip)...
Don't forget to discharge yourself before reaching into the fuel vapor zone.

How about a personal wrist strap ground?
In our data centers, we had to wear wrist ground straps. They have a coiled wire with an aligator clip. Seems like a good way to keep your body at the same ground potential.