Posted on 09/05/2019 3:19:54 PM PDT by Drew68
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About ten years back I’d had enough of dealing with squat, irregularly shaped leaky polyethylene “cans” (although they DID have the PRE-CARB spouts and vents), said the heck with it and blew a few hundred dollars on these: https://www.roverparts.com/Parts/GJC20K4
I own four, and TWO of the 10 liter cans.
You can NOT believe how easy they have made my life, storing, handling, transferring gas and diesel.
I spray painted two of ‘em yellow for diesel, store 110 gallons on my farm, use a self-designed contraption of two filters and a pump to “polish” the fuel so there’s nothing in them larger than 1 micron. Every time I go to fill up my truck, I fill up the cans, and transfer them to the storage tanks.
May still buy a home heating oil tank for the same purpose (250-300 gallon size).
Do NOT buy the cheap Chicom crap cans sold through amazon. They don’t seal right and the lining dissolves over time. I bought two of ‘em for Kerosene and wish I had just bought another set of four of the NATO cans.
They’re sold for potable water only, but they’re fine for gas/diesel, even with preservatives/additives.
Buy once, cry once.
Spend $40 and get a 5 gallon Eagle metal can and the spout attachment, instead of those crappy plastic jugs that the cap and nozzle that always leaks
I have a couple of 5 gallon cans retro fitted with this set up and they are a breeze to install. Just be certain to use a good sealer when mounting the vent cap. Since I am constantly pouring fuel into my Gator and my Zero Turn mower, this was the most painless choice.
Plus the added benefit of no carb fouling from dirty gas, no seals destroyed by unleaded gas. I have an 8kw LP generator running off my 250 gallon tank that feeds the range in the house.
It’s lawyers.
People blew themselves up when pouring gasoline on open fires.
That caused 2 things to happen:
1. Liability insurance through the roof - figured per can. Each idiot that blows himself up in a terrifying, horrifying and painful way will leave his family a tidy little nest egg courtesy of Ambulance-Chasing Charlie. Twice as much if they do it at a holiday picnic with the entire extended family there to watch the live screaming immolation.
2. The attempt to address this resulted in can openings where the gas couldn’t just be all dumped out in a few seconds. Idiots can still splash some gas on themselves, and set themselves on fire, but it’s not the napalm-like fireball when they suddenly and unexpectedly were blowing up a whole can at a time.
Stay safe!
Those OSHA cans are good, but still kind of awkward.
have you tried to open your little bottle of pills lately?
have you tried to open your little bottle of pills lately? the govt has dictated pills to be impossible to open, too, just like your gas can ? ha!
Bookmarked.
Years ago when I heard about the new gas can requirements I started buying the old style cans at garage sales. I probably have more than I need, but at least my kids will inherit something useful when I die.
They will also inherit several large boxes of 100W and 75W incandescent light bulbs. (And other good stuff.)
the gas can companies got sued out of business by Lawyers representing drunks and crackheads pouring gas on fire pits while standing in the middle of it.
Awesome!
I found 2 of the old style Gott gas cans at the County’s annual Household Waste Disposal dropoff. Got way to find things that you can re-purpose and the County Coordinators love the fact that you are keeping products out of the waste stream. One year 3 old 5 gallon Jerry Cans can in. They were the kind that all metal flex sprout can be flipped around and stored inside can. I left an hour too early, but 8 people pulled for the 3 longest coffee straws.
Hear, hear!
That sounds perfectly logical.
How about toilets that send turds packing on one flush?
Totally agree about the garbage gas cans that were mandated on us all because idiots kept burning themselves up with simple gas cans.
I use VP 5 gal cans, about the best money can buy, little expensive but headache free, works for me.
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