All:

Painted it with epoxy yesterday, and made the covers fit better. Just need to mount the exhaust fan and steps and I'm done!

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...itpaint003.jpg

Cheers,

Paul.

That will work for baby sitting too...

Everybody's worried about carbon mono and fumes. How often are you working on cars these day's while they are running?

Looks great, Paul... superb work.

I'm visualizing something right there in the foreground of that last pic... stenciled on the concrete in red paint...

DO NOT TAUNT THE
VELOCIRAPTOR

All:

Several enquiries as to how much this thing cost.

About $2,500.

YMMV.

Paul.

That's no joke! I was filling up today and had to hold the handle the whole time. I told the attendant and she said it's a new policy that all self filling latches be removed. WTF!! Who the hell is sitting around all day dreaming this crap up? I hate all of this safety PC BS.

Not sure it's BS. It keeps people from getting back in the car and rubbing their butt on the seat and coming back with a static charge, doesn't it?

Also shuts down the possibility of the self-fill latch going bad and pumping 5 gallons of gas on the tarmac, too.

Some/most self-fill latches still work around here, but I always stay right with it anyway.

I can honestly say I've never met or heard of anybody locally that has had a problem. Here in California we have this huge seal with a spring that presses against the fill neck that kicks off even with the handle fully depressed if it senses fuel coming back up or if the spring is not compressed tightly against the neck. Filling a gas can is a pain.

You say that liike it iss a bad thing, one less idiot is the way I see it, but have never heard of that really happening..

Well, it does happen.

And the "one less idiot" thing should make you think... what if that idiot was somebody in my family or a close friend?

Or what if the idiot was pumping gas next to you and his fireball ate you and your car?

Or ate a friend or family member?

It's not necessarily just the one idiot who dies.

Just sayin.' ;)

When "pump your own" (self serve) gas stations became the standard in Australia they removed all of the self filling latches at the same time.
That was way back in the early 80s! :D

50/50 around here. I find that jamming my wallet in the handle holds the valve open and allows me to check my oil and do the other things I want to do other than stand out in the cold with my hand on a stupid handle because some bureaucrat sez so.

They have auto shutoffs anyway.

+1 to the comment about overly-PC, pussified regulations. "Oh it's for safety" is the new "won't someone please think of the children". Ridiculous.

These aren't blow-off preventers. :)

Porsche-O-Phile

I see your point but not everyone may be as careful as you.

"Mythbusters" did a story about this very topic...
It freaked me out when I saw the security video footage of real pump fires caused by static electricity.
They also found women were more likely to leave the nozzle unattended so they could sit down in there car while it filled up.

BTW: The first thing a tanker driver does before filling a service station tank with gas is attach his static discharge cable.

I worked at Toronto airport in high school. A DC 8 blew up there while it was being fueled in about 1971. It was later determined the ground wire wasn,t connected and static was blamed.. The guy who was fueling was blown across the ramp into a ditch where the fireball rolled over him. The plane burned all afternoon with flames about 1000 ft high. I will never leave a nozzle unattended. Nice work on your pit but they are illegal here and it has just depreciated your house .

Paul,

I' like to do the same thing in my garage and my question is where you ever worried about the side walls collapsing while digging up the pit because of the surrounding floor weight?

Thanks.