Dave Hall wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:33:53 -0800 (PST), RonB
wrote:

Remember when fuel cans were simple? Pop the cap off the end, tip it
and fuel went into your mower. I recently had to buy a couple of
replacements. The ones with the push-lock device, short spout and
lever actuated valve (WalMart specials).

What the hell are they good for? The spout is too short to reach
most mower or auto gas ports, without attaching a hose. The lever is
pretty much inoperable without an attached hose.

Longer spout?

Bitch bitch bitch.

Now I'll go back to building something.

Man, if you think that those suck, try the other version out there
(K-Mart and Lowes sell them) They only have a push lock which is
basically a spout with a little lip or edge about 1/3 of the way down.
The idea is you put the spout into the hole inside of your car's gas
filler tube. The lip catches and then you press down. This releases
the mechanism that allows the fuel to flow. When you let up a little
it springs shut and stops the flow of gasoline. It works pretty poorly
in a car, but just try it in a lawn mower (or much worse on a rocking
boat) where there is no inside lip in the filler tube to catch the lip
on the spout and you can't function them if you attach an extender
hose. I MUCH prefer the ones that you describe with at least a lever
to actuate the valve.

Further, the damn nozzle goes so far into the tank and blocks so much of the
filler on the lawn mower or pressure washer or snow blower or whatever that
you can't tell how much gas you've put in until it overflows.

One wants to believe that there is a special place in Hell for the sort of
government bureaucrats who come up with this crap.