In message , The Medway
Handyman writes
Surely that depends on how much you like Smarties? I don't eat sweets,
biscuits or chocolate, neither do I take sugar simply because I can't stand
the taste of sweet things. I wouldn't eat a Smartie if you paid me [1].

With mobile phones and the hazard on garage forecourts the bigger risk
is if they are dropped and break in a way to cause sparks or a fire in
the phone, very remote but possible, I have had a portable radio,
walkie talkie, catch fire due to a fault and would not have wanted to
be near any explosive gas mix.

So what about the alternator, distributor, HT leads etc in a car/motorbike
engine?
Indeed, not all risks can be removed, although I have worked in a few
refineries and in at least one petrol engined vehicles are not allowed
onto all of the site, whereas diesel are. So a slight reduction of risk
there.


[1] OK, it would depend on how much :-)

:-) :-)



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Bill