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MOst of the problem lies with the spouts. The first ones needed 3
hands to operate. I havn't tried one of the new ones yet. I have
head of a brand "No Spill" that supposedly works reasonably well.

I had a 1gal can that isn't too bad but I lost the plastic "hose" in
the move last year. I just bought a replacement can from HD. It
looks like I'll be spilling half the gas filling my weed whacker.
There is no way to completely plug the thing, either. The "valve" is
a butterfly in the neck that doesn't close completely and the end
cover doesn't double as a tank seal. Like everything Congress does,
it screwed this one up *badly*. Dumb, really dumb.


It appears that people are not using a combination of big and small tanks
for the job
Big (5 gal) for storage
Med (2-3 gal) for emergency resupply of cars\
Filled at gas station
Small (1 gal) for gas-oil premix.
Filled at home with a funnel from the big ones.
I also have a few metal premix bottles that I refill

Hardly have any spillage