Does ground temperature vary that much overnight.    ?

Worth remembering but I have one point
"One of the most important tips is to fill up when your Petrol

tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more Petrol you have in

your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Petrololine evaporates

faster than you can imagine. Petrol storage tanks have an internal

floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the Petrol and

the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service

stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature

compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount."

When your towing a van with a lot of K's to do half a tank is not enough. If I see it cheap I get as much as I can no one knows how much it is at the next place
Am I doing wrong or what every one else is doing.

The rest I can almost manage but the time one can be difficult.

Thanks Dougie for the tips, will follow them in future.

_wombat_ wrote:

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Thanks Dougie for the tips, will follow them in future.

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 Thanks too Dougie........isn't it nice having a media spokesperson (Wombat), I feel like Julia Gillard.....on second thoughts after another feel, no....

Hi Dougie; when you refer to "Petrol" does that include deisel, if not any tips....

I prefer to use the hi-flow nozzle. I just don't pull the trigger tight. The pressure makes the diesel blow back and shut the nozzle off anyway.
I made a blunder when I first saw "Vortex", and put high octane petrol in my diesel Landcruiser. I didn't kill her, but it was a worry.
So if I use the truckie bowser I know I'm getting diesel.
Unless you're in the tropics the ground temp doesn't vary very much. In the tropics the ground is very hot at least 2 metres below ground level.
You know you're in Broome when you get hot water out of both taps. The water pipe is underground there, and it's bore water.

Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

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 I agree that most of these "tips" are rubbish.

Those with some truth will be so insignificant as to be a waste of effort.

 

Cheers,

Peter

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 Hear! Hear!

This is not the first time that someone has posted some of this garbage that does the rounds of the emails without doing a simple search to check its accuracy.

A bit of common sense would suggest that lack of verifiable references would question whether these emails are "kosher" or not.

Jim

Interesting tips. Let me see, I wonder how long it would take me to fill up my 275 litres of fuel tanks if I were to use the low setting on one of those car pumps, imagine how impatient those people in line behind me would become.

I have made up a sign to place at the rear of my vehicle when entering the service station warning punters behind me of the delays. I love those truck pumps they certainly get it in a bit quicker & if I were a man on an hourly rate I can imagine the little bit lost in vapour would be well worth it.

Thanks for passing the tips on in any case, it will certainly give those types a bit to argue about whilst around the camp fire/keyboard. : rofl:

epicure wrote:

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Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

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epicure wrote:

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Just not funny that EXACTLY the same wording with the difference of Gallons instead of litres of the initial post by Dougie has been posted

in 2007 at an USA forum: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/gastips.asp

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 I agree that most of these "tips" are rubbish.

Those with some truth will be so insignificant as to be a waste of effort.

 

Cheers,

Peter

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 Totally agree, but my point is that someone copies a post from another forum, changes the location from the USA to Melbourne, claims he knows it all and states he has worked 31 years in the oil industry etc basiaclly giving other members here the impression that that is true. Makes me think!!!

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 Surely in the scheme of things it doesn't matter who put it up or if they worked in the petroleum industry or not.

The point of the exercise, in my opinion, is to give some thought to what we do and how we do it and if anything comes a small way towards making life easier, be it filling up the tanks or something entirely different, then it isn't a wasted effort, Snopes or no Snopes.

Any "insignificant" truth when multiplied by the probably thousands that we come across can make just that little bit of difference.

Anyway, thanks from me Doug.  I take it in the vein it was meant

Ma - check on the website where this originated from and you will see it is copyrighted.  Do you agree that content simply get stolen from another website and not only reproduced with just changing the location but also claiming it it's own IP? The only thing i can suggest that you actually check the website where the content had been copied from and read the thread to the bottom to make an informed comment. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/gastips.asp

-- Edited by epicure on Saturday 16th of July 2011 01:54:34 PM

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you all know that I have deleted the content of the first post here and have provided a link to the website that it came from instead.  As ‘epicure’ first noted, this material is copyrighted and cannot be reproduced without permission from the source.  We can, however, provide a link to the website that it came from which is what I have done here. 
Copyright issues are complex at the best of times and the internet makes things even more interesting.  If you are not the author of material like this that you wish to share, please supply a link to the appropriate website with a brief description of what it is. This will also provide everyone with better idea of the original author and context that the article was written. Thanks everyone for your understanding.

 

I can see where Cindy is coming from on this issue but then none of us are lawyers and most of us pass on things that we consider to be of some interest or advice to other GN's with only the best of intentions at heart.

If we all had to authenticate EVERY post we put up, then in my opinion, we wouldn't have too many postings on here and I for one would miss them.

We all have learnt a lot of things from this forum that more than a few of us would never have considered.  It can't be all bad, but I guess we will just have to be careful in what we put up from here on in.

We all have to be careful about what we claim to be our own work.
When we quote anything or anyone, we have to acknowledge the source/author.
In the jokes most of us would recognise they came from other emails etc, and not our own work.
Copyright laws are there to protect the author/writer. We can't take credit for what is not our own, especially when there's payment at the end. Payment doesn't apply in this particular case, but we have to be responsible with the information we pass on.
This is especially true when we pass on informative emails etc. Always check the validity and the origin before publishing.
Another lesson demonstrating we are never too old to learn.

I must admit with the original post (now deleted by Cindy) I did think Dougie was saying he had worked in the industry, perhaps just the way it was posted, I don't think he intended claiming that but that is the way it seemed to me when I read the post.

The article was certainly food for thought though whether correct or otherwise, and even if we haven't checked it out on Snopes or similar, perhaps a "I got this on an email" is better than no check at all, if someone knows it is a hoax or a copy of another that is fine and it doesn't worry me if someone points that out.

As as rule I do check things out on Snopes but sometimes if your in a hurry and you think something is legit you don't bother, I have been caught a few times myself but my friends have soon pointed out my error etc. I am glad that people do check these things out on Snopes, I would rather be informed that something is a hoax or copied from somewhere else/another author then at least I am not ignorant of the facts.

Some of you may recall the speech said to be by Nelson Mandella starting with "Our Deepest Fear" which was actually written by Marianne Williamson, for years I thought that was fact (by Nelson Mandella....not his original first name by the way), but it was not, it was Marianne Willamson, see;

http://skdesigns.com/internet/articles/quotes/williamson/our_deepest_fear/  

I don't think we should take things to heart if someone points out we are wrong, otherwise none of us would pass things on at all, but as I said I am always greatful if someone points out snopes or other sources that show it was not who/what I thought it was.

-- Edited by Vic on Sunday 17th of July 2011 02:38:27 PM