nestork wrote, on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:14:22 +0200:

Is there some Department of Transportation regulation that requires gas
cans to be red and the corresponding cans for diesel fuel to be yellow?

I read the specs once (and posted a lot of it to a.h.r in the past).
Yes. It must be red, although, this new can I bought just today is sort
of a pale orangyreddish color ...
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3868/1...2b1332bd_b.jpg

Dan Espen wrote, on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:11:15 -0400:

I'm not afraid, just pointing out that gas cans in your car is
cause for concern.

Heh heh ... look'it what I filled up today, and put in my trunk!
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3892/1...7df1c083_b.jpg

On 09/11/2014 11:50 AM, wrote:
http://ezpourspout.com/order/order-fuel-spouts/
http://ezpourspout.com/order/order-fuel-spouts/
http://ezpourspout.com/order/order-fuel-spouts/
http://ezpourspout.com/order/order-fuel-spouts/ !!!!

And they have them down at the local True Value. Let's see - the can is
now over $30. God I hate experts.


I used to use the True Value here, but it's gone since Lowe's opened.
The other old hardware store is gone too. I did find those spouts at
Tractor Supply.

BTW, I have one old gas can and 4 of the early new cans. On those the
plastic body is the same except for the vent hole not being drilled.
The EZ Pour spouts and caps (yellow caps) fit both.


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On 09/11/2014 09:06 AM, Danny D. wrote:

[snip]

Of course, gasoline vapor *does* explode, but, luckily, the cans
*do* seal the gasoline in pretty well, so, given I'm at retirement
age and I've never had even a fender bender in my life, the odds
are pretty good that I'm not going to get into an accident on my
way home from the gas station.

NEWS HEADLINE: MAN DRIVES HOME FROM GAS STATION, HAS NO FENDER
BENDER!!!! FILM AT 11!!

On 09/11/2014 01:16 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

[snip]


I've heard that using gasoline in a diesel
engine does MAJOR damage. I've found that
disel in a gas engine doesn't run well at
all.


I seem to remember hearing something about a boat exploding because
someone put gasoline in a tank that should hold diesel.

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On 09/11/2014 07:18 PM, wrote:

[snip]

Nobody smokes here.


I wish nobody smoked anywhere.

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"Danny D." writes:

Dan Espen wrote, on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:11:15 -0400:

I'm not afraid, just pointing out that gas cans in your car is
cause for concern.

Heh heh ... look'it what I filled up today, and put in my trunk!
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3892/1...7df1c083_b.jpg

Nuts.

If you don't do this, she'll eventually go to the station
on her own.

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Dan Espen

On 9/12/2014 9:35 AM, hah wrote:
On 09/11/2014 09:06 AM, Danny D. wrote:

[snip]

I've never had even a fender bender in my life, the odds
are pretty good that I'm not going to get into an accident on my
way home from the gas station.

NEWS HEADLINE: MAN DRIVES HOME FROM GAS STATION, HAS NO FENDER
BENDER!!!! FILM AT 11!!


"So, Mr. D, we are here from news team 4, following
the story of the man who drove home and didn't have
a fender bender. Would you please state for our viewing
audience what it was like to get home, and not have
your car towed?"

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On 9/12/2014 9:43 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 09/11/2014 01:16 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

[snip]


I've heard that using gasoline in a diesel
engine does MAJOR damage. I've found that
disel in a gas engine doesn't run well at
all.


I seem to remember hearing something about a boat exploding because
someone put gasoline in a tank that should hold diesel.

One of the early episodes of Emergency!
had such an event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUyiBhNJf8
Watch it here. One of the less noted episodes.


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On 9/12/2014 9:47 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 09/11/2014 07:18 PM, wrote:

[snip]

Nobody smokes here.


I wish nobody smoked anywhere.

You and Dufas and myself. Man that
stuff sets off my allergies.

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gfretwell wrote, on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:02:46 -0400:

I agree. And I fill and empty a *lot* of five-gallon gas cans!
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3892/1...7df1c083_b.jpg

I do them 10 at a time too.

10 is the perfect number because the fit perfectly in the trunk,
without any chance of tipping over.

The one problem with the aft cans is that the trunk presses on
those idiotically tall nozzles.

What I need, really, is just a single-piece bung-hole cap,
like this:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/6HEAAOxyi3FRy397/$T2eC16h,!ygE9s7HLcLyBRy3962pQw~~60_35.JPG

On 9/12/14, 4:46 AM, Danny D. wrote:
Dan Espen wrote, on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:11:15 -0400:

I'm not afraid, just pointing out that gas cans in your car is
cause for concern.

Heh heh ... look'it what I filled up today, and put in my trunk!
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3892/1...7df1c083_b.jpg

I think I see now...

I closed my shop after the highway patrol got suspicious about all the
cars leaving with their rear springs sagging. I never thought of
putting a gasoline sign on the pump and doing it outdoors.

I'd love to see the look on a cop's face after he pulls you over because
your trunk is suspiciously low, and you tell him you have an enormous
lawn mower, and you open the trunk, and he finds 10 gas cans! Lets hope
he doesn't use a dipstick to probe for false bottoms!

J Burns writes:

On 9/12/14, 4:46 AM, Danny D. wrote:
Dan Espen wrote, on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:11:15 -0400:

I'm not afraid, just pointing out that gas cans in your car is
cause for concern.

Heh heh ... look'it what I filled up today, and put in my trunk!
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3892/1...7df1c083_b.jpg

I think I see now...

I closed my shop after the highway patrol got suspicious about all the
cars leaving with their rear springs sagging. I never thought of
putting a gasoline sign on the pump and doing it outdoors.

I'd love to see the look on a cop's face after he pulls you over
because your trunk is suspiciously low, and you tell him you have an
enormous lawn mower, and you open the trunk, and he finds 10 gas cans!
Lets hope he doesn't use a dipstick to probe for false bottoms!

The cop might drink some suspecting moonshine.

--
Dan Espen

J Burns wrote, on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:39:25 -0400:

I'd love to see the look on a cop's face after he pulls you over because
your trunk is suspiciously low, and you tell him you have an enormous
lawn mower, and you open the trunk, and he finds 10 gas cans! Lets hope
he doesn't use a dipstick to probe for false bottoms!

I didn't snap a photo of it, but while I had 10 cans of gas in the
trunk, I had two cases of pool chlorine and one case of muriatic
acid on a towel in the back seat!

Oren posted for all of us...

I may not have read all messages.


On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:41:45 -0400, wrote:

It goes in the tank of my boat as fast as I can pour it out of a
vented 5 gal can.
I guess I will have to actually time it if this is that important to
you. Maybe shoot it on a video for you.

Since this link came up, check the 7/8" spout. A high-flow spout for
boats, bobcats or wave runners ... and stuff

Notice the red can used on the boat dock ;-\

http://ezpourspout.com/ez-pour-products/all-products/hi-flow-spout/

I will have to get me one of those!

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