Quizzes & Puzzles1 min ago
Am I Crazy?
or did you used to be able to fill your tank with petrol without having to squeeze the trigger all the time? I swear you used to be able to clip the trigger somehow, so hands were free. am i right? No-one else seems to remember
Answers
Your not crazy....... .....yet! Yes, you used to be able to lock the trigger and leave the nozzle hands free. All it really means is that you and I are older than many others.
08:08 Sun 07th Sep 2014
Yes and you still can if you slightly turn the nozzle round. To enable people to keep a track of how much money they're spending, some garages have slowed the rate at which petrol is dispensed so this may be the cause but, as I say, I find that twisting the nozzle round slightly still allows a constant flow.
Trigger locks have been taken off car pumps, as 'they' think we can't be trusted to use them. Most truck pumps still use them ('cos we are normally putting in a couple of hundred litres!). You can always put something in the trigger guard to jam them open. You need something about the size of a credit card, but a little bit stiffer. When the tank is full, the pump should stop even if the trigger is locked on.
I have a metal pin off an old fire extinguisher on my key ring to fit in the hole in the pump trigger. Works like magic in my local garage, and I get some funny looks when I sit in the car with the fuel pump running. Watch out, it doesn't work so well on some combinations of pump and car and the miserable git in the shop sometimes tells me off over the Tannoy ...