On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:15:52 +0100, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

on 03/04/2018, Scott supposed :
Surely not? Electrical equipment in the vicinity of a gas leak. Why
do you think mobile phones are banned at petrol pumps?

They are mostly banned because they distract the pump operator, there
has never been a recorded incident of a phone causing ignition, but
plenty of myths.

I did say 'More effective, would be something like a vacuum cleaner
hose, which you could drop to the bottom and suck the gas out - except
for the fact that the gas would then pass through the vacs motor.' In
other words, not something to try.

You have added the owrds 'not something to try' later. This was not
clear from your original post. You obviously don't take safety
warnings very seriously.