Richard J Kinch wrote in
:

Al Bundy writes:

Different liquids
will eat or not eat away at plastics at a very fast or very slow
rate.

Don't be silly. If it holds gasoline it will hold kerosene. They're
both just petroleum distillates, with gasoline the lighter, more
solvent fraction.


I'm confident it would. Just a general statement not to develop a bad
habit that could be nasty.

I've seen xylene melt "plastic" on contact before my eyes. I've seen it
clean other "plastics" like ammonia on glass. Obviously they were two
very different plastics. Long ago but I think one may have been Lexan?

The main point was the firefighter issue.