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Soda bottle gas tank makes fuel conservation more obvious

This soda bottle gas tank on a home-made motor bike from Cuba is a pretty handy way to check if you are running low on gas without needing a meter.

Cuban Motor Bike - [via]

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Posted by: Dax on January 28, 2008 at 9:05 AM

Danger Will Robinson Danger!

Gasoline melts PET...

Darwin award waiting to happen!

Posted by: kyle on January 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM

dupe

Posted by: Pekar on January 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM

Check out the movie "Yank Tanks" if you're into Cuban automotive ingenuity. Definitely a top rate Maker movie!

Posted by: Nels on January 28, 2008 at 2:11 PM

Hmm, someone should tell that Cuban fellow about the dangers of mixing gasoline with static charges from that type of plastic.

Posted by: Thebes on January 28, 2008 at 11:22 PM

Many fuels will quickly destroy a plastic soda bottle. At one time I used a small plastic soda bottle for methyl alcohol for a homemade backpacking stove. That bottle became brittle and unusable within 4 weeks.

This might work for a few days, but it is unsafe and will not work long term. In the US it is also almost certainly illegal.

Posted by: klaus on January 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM

glass seems like it'd work better, if it weren't for the breakability factor. I'm pretty sure its illegal in the US to put gas in a glass bottle too.

does gas mess with Nalgene bottles?

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