More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Gas Cans

Blakeblog ^ | 10-9-2012 | Blake Sobiloff

[Dr. Sivana]

Unchanged for nearly 50 years.

Actually, I have been using a new design in the Great Lakes region for almost ten years. Blitz made a can with no second hole and a thumb push button that works really well . . . No unscrewing the cap.

I don't know if tht's part of a mandate, and a mandate s stupid anyway, but the Blitz design was a good one. Blitz, I understand went out of business a while ago.

[cableguymn]

yup.. I haul a lot of fuel for my boat.. (my back can’t handle the weight of a full 20 gallon tank any more) so I have become a hoarder of pre-2008 gas cans.. yard sales, thrift shops, the side of the road..

I grab them all..

I had a few EPA cans. first thing I did was drill out the valves and punch vent holes in them.

15 minutes to drop 5 gallons of gas in to a 20 gallon tank? hell no.

[Senator_Blutarski]

This is one of my pet peeves. I just remove the moving parts and guts of the new spouts and use a cork from the hardware store as a cap.

Meanwhile, I look for older gas cans at garage sales.

[Fido969]

I hate those &^%&*% cans. The stupid Rube Goldberg spouts make me spill gas all over the place.

[TurboZamboni]

GAD’s Ramblings » One Man’s Quest for Gas Cans that Don’t Suck

http://www.gad.net/Blog/2012/11/22/one-mans-quest-for-gas-cans-that-dont-suck/comment-page-1/

If it ain’t broke, gubmint hasn’t “fixed” it yet.

[jimpick]

Yeh and then I had to spend 3 hours fishing the spout parts out of the tank. Great design. Love spending 15 minutes dumping 5 gallons into the tractor.

[jjotto]

The newest gas cans I’ve used have some kind of weird no-spill valve in the spout. I just take off the whole spout assembly and use a funnel.

[cableguymn]

Blitz was sued out of existence because their cans contained something flammable and someone caught fire being stupid. (dumping gas on a fire if I recall).

http://www.facesoflawsuitabuse.org/2012/12/the-last-week-how-lawsuits-doomed-an-american-icon/

I’m not saying it was lawyers... but it was lawyers that killed them.

[stevio]

I totally agree with you. Although I have yet to drill anything out, I curse the regulators who have created this situation.

[MountainDad]

Yep.
Me too. Lol.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

And if the cans don’t spill enough gas how much gets dumped on the ground because it goes bad so quickly? CARB should be jailed.

[headstamp 2]

Excellent cans though not cheap.

http://www.nospill.com/

I still have my old “Cott’s” with the vent holes though.

Add a vent hole like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WZ9FrXPiE

[dasboot]

http://www.ruralking.com/ez-pour-replacement-spout-kit-10050.html?utm_medium=cse&utm_source=google&CAWELAID=1624225046&CAGPSPN=pla&catargetid=520009190000031013&cadevice=c&gclid=CN64-eyVnsACFQxp7AodFXUAkw

[anton]

CARB Compliant = Piece of Crap.

[yarddog]

I haven’t seen a “Jerry Can” in years. I simply use the cheap plastic ones and they work just fine.

I do make it a point of not keeping them in the house tho.

[Pollster1]

I have never seen a real person use one of those environmentally friendly spouts. Like every other person who does real work, I throw the useless spout on the ground and either pour into a funnel or just from can to tank. It spills more than the old cans did, but it’s FAR better than using the new spouts.

[headstamp 2]

Easy pour kit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXvNgW6OEY

[SkyDancer]

The EPA forced Blitz out of business.

[cableguymn]

http://ezpourspout.com/wp/

my local hardware stores sell them.. while they can’t say it, and I shouldn’t.. they work on post 2009 cans too.